blackstone code

Chapter 2177

On the slightly distorted screen, the director of security stood on the witness stand, his hand on the Bible.

"I swear to the Supreme God that every statement I utter here is the truth, no perjury!"

Some people who were watching at the scene also showed smiles, as if the head of the security department simply swore an oath that he really wouldn't lie!
This is a very special "culture" based on the belief that there is a God and that there are two places, heaven and hell.

Swearing on the Bible in court has two meanings at the same time. The first meaning is to clarify one's responsibility and promise not to lie or perjury.

If it is found that the witness's testimony is falsified, he has violated the relevant laws. Although perjury is not a felony in the Federation, it is definitely not a trivial matter.

Provocations of the judiciary often only result in the wrath of the judge, so it may not be a big crime, but the punishment will not be lessened at all.

Another meaning is that if you commit perjury, you will not go to heaven, because the witness deceived God.

Those who deceive God can only go to hell!
It seems that this is just a formal process, but there are many cases in federal history where witnesses dare not swear on the Bible!
They excused that they were not believers or for other reasons, and refused to swear to God according to the Bible.

Naturally, without interrogation, everyone knows that they must have falsified their testimony.

The head of the security department swore without hesitation. This kind of determination and attitude is what everyone wants to see. As for whether he will lie or not, it doesn't really matter anymore.

People believe that believers will not lie, at least they will not lie with the guilt of going to hell!

The Minister of Security is much fatter than before. Under the double protection of the Security Committee and the military, he eats and drinks deliciously. The doctor even suggested that he should exercise more.

He saw his wife and children sitting in the public gallery at a glance, when the Security Committee took over and began to investigate the case.

They believed that if the Minister of Security was going to be silenced, it meant that he must have some key evidence.

And these evidences could not be taken away by him in a hurry, so they must still be in the Tibetan house.

So they searched his house and eventually found the family in the back room.

Fortunately, the security committee did not embarrass them, but provided them with appropriate protection. This is one of the reasons why the Minister of Security was willing to appear in court.

If he refuses to appear in court, he will be transferred to an ordinary place of detention, such as a district police cell.

And his family will be sent home.

It is conceivable that this is tantamount to sending their family to a dead end, so he made a firm oath.

He had already firmed up his ideas.

Either he died, or the company's high-level executives died. Some people have to die to settle the case.

This time he appeared in court as a witness and also the defendant, but now he has become a tainted witness.

However, due to the special nature of the case, the charges against him were not withdrawn.

After reading some documents, the Attorney General looked at the Minister of Security, "Do you admit that you ever hired a murderer to try to murder President Truman?"

It was a shocking accusation from the very beginning, but the Minister of Security at this time did not have much fear.

He nodded, "Yes, I received an order to hire an assassin to prepare for the assassination."

"Who gave you the order?"

The Minister of Security replied: "It is the chairman of the company's board of directors... Mr. and Mr....."

He mentioned two names, one is the chairman of the board of directors of his company, and he is also one of the directors and shareholders of North Industries Group Corporation.

The other gentleman is the nephew of a member of the board of directors of the group company, and also plays a very important role.

The prosecutor general was not completely satisfied with his simple answer, "Do you have any evidence to prove that they gave you such an order?"

The Minister of Security nodded, "I have a recording that can prove what I said!"

There was an uproar in the court, because no one thought that he still had a recording!

The judge picked up the gavel and knocked on the table, "Silence..."

The noisy people became quiet again.

The audience in front of the TV was not so obedient. Everyone was talking enthusiastically about what was on the tape.

Lynch, who was sitting in his office watching the almost live broadcast of the trial, was also asked this question.

He shook his head, not knowing.

He was on Blackstone TV, and Blackstone TV also got the broadcasting rights, only 60.

It is not the rebroadcast fee of one court trial, but the rebroadcast fee of all court trials.

The chief prosecutor on TV presented the evidence to the court and was then played.

During the whole process, the staff in charge of the playback wore gloves, and the body was a certain distance away from the player.

He was not allowed to touch the tape directly, only to push the buttons.

After he pressed the play button, the tape began to spin and the loudspeaker blared.

"There's a light bulb that's gone, we need to turn it off, you go to an electrician."

"Look from the outside, or from the inside?"

"Casual...no, find a new face from outside."

"When can he be sent to turn off the broken light bulb?"

"Waiting for my news..."

……

"Is anyone still there?"

"Still!"

"Let him prepare, and he will be able to work in no more than a month. I hope he is in a state capable of his job."

"understood."

……

"Did you get the note to you?"

"received."

"The plan remains the same. Find a suitable time in late November or early December."

"understood."

……

When they got here, the staff turned off the tape recorder under the signal of the chief prosecutor.

Again, people were moaning because the three conversations didn't look like murder-order dialogue at all.

And this is also the most controversial point in federal justice - code words cannot be used as valid evidence in legal actions.

If you are not a participant in the code language, you will never know what they are talking about.

And sometimes people can say similar things through some hints and temptations when they speak.

This makes it possible for some people to lure some people to say specious things in order to achieve certain purposes, and then accuse them of being criminal evidence.

Obviously, if the judiciary adopted this argument, many people would be wrongly jailed.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the Ministry of Justice did not recognize codewords as evidence of effectiveness.

This is why many crimes are so difficult to convict, as they are now.

The judge tapped the gavel again, and the crowd fell silent again.

Although this kind of code word cannot be used as evidence to convict someone, it can be used as an auxiliary content to make people understand the facts more clearly.

While federal law does not recognize these codewords, they have come up with yet another set of rules for the game.

Motivation, chain of evidence, chain of logic.

To put it simply, a person first needs to have a motive to do something. Once he has a motive, he can start to conduct detailed investigation.

Find a chain of evidence that can form a closed loop during the investigation, such as the murder weapon in a murder case.

When these preparations are sufficient and there are no logical problems, the issue of conviction can be considered.

Even if it is some key evidence, it’s okay, because the jury will make up this part of the content. As long as there is key evidence and the logic is self-consistent, the jury will give a guilty judgment.

The judge looked at the Minister of Security, "I noticed that the code words you use are very similar to those of the gang?"

As a lifelong judge, he has been exposed to too many cases, and he also knows that gangsters have their own code words, which are common to a certain extent.

"Bulb" means "person" in gangster slang.

In the past they would use "candle" to refer to "person" or "target", and "wax blower" to represent the killer who carried out the assassination.

To blow out a candle is to kill a person.

Now that light bulbs have replaced candles as the mainstream lighting fixture, the code word between gangs will continue to grow.

The purpose of the development was not to keep up with the trend, but to prevent the anti-organized crime investigation agency from discovering through surveillance some snippets of their communications that might have leaked.

At the same time, it also makes these conversations look a little more harmonious. Compared with "blowing out the candles", is it more inconspicuous to use "turn off the light" now?

In the past there were "wax blowers", and now there are "electricians".

"Electrician" refers to the killer. In fact, the judge himself is very aware of these contents, but he needs the Minister of Security to explain them in person.

Tell the jury, tell the gallery, tell everyone else!

Amid the continual exclamation, the judge interrupted, "There was a 'note' mentioned in the last conversation, what was that?"

At this time, the Chief Prosecutor stood up, "Your Honor, this is the second piece of evidence we are going to present today..."

After the staff handed over the evidence to the judge, a copy of the evidence was also shown.

A small piece of paper with some numbers recorded, only the thickness of a finger, with a set of numbers on it.

There was also an incidental item, a newspaper.

"The first four digits of the numbers on this note refer to the issue number of the Commonwealth Daily which was issued this year."

"What is recorded here is the newspaper issued on August [-]th."

"The following four numbers refer to which edition and which content."

"The last string of numbers refers to which line and word the content of this report begins and where it ends."

"From here we can clearly find the content I have marked, which points to the third page of the Federal Daily issued on August [-]."

"The third word in the second line of the report "Anti-monopoly Law Amendment Draft Solicits Social Information" is also the word at the end."

"And the word is..."

"Truman!"

There was an instant uproar in the courtroom!
Some people who were watching couldn't help but stand up!

These people actually discussed how to kill the president so openly, which made it difficult for the people at the bottom to accept, although they had forgotten Mr. Truman for almost a year.

But they still stood up dominated by anger or fear.

On the contrary, the gentlemen of the upper class just watched all this happen indifferently!

(End of this chapter)