However, Xue Shen also has his own invincible buff - Song Jinguo.

Who is Song Jinguo?Of the lawyers who are engaged in the construction of the rule of law throughout the country, there are only a few who have nothing to do with Song Jinguo.Either his apprentice, or his apprentice's apprentice, or his apprentice's apprentice's apprentice.

As for the case of Yang Guohan, because the death penalty may be imposed, the intermediate court presided over the trial.The dean and secretary of the middle school, as well as more than a dozen deputy deans and school-level leaders, are all students of Song Jinguo.There are three criminal courts in the court - the First Criminal Division, the Second Criminal Division and the Third Criminal Division.

The head of the First Criminal Tribunal, the vice-presidents of the Second Criminal Tribunal and the Third Criminal Tribunal are all related to Song Jinguo for some reason.The entire intermediate court searched a lot, but they couldn't find a few judges who had nothing to do with Xue Shen and Song Jinguo and were willing to participate in the trial of the case.In the end, there was no other way. The court seconded a few judges from the neighboring city, and it was barely possible to hold a trial.

Gu Huihe shook his head helplessly.

Glancing at his watch, he thought that the trial inside had almost started, so he waited for Xue Shen outside.

*

"I plead guilty and I also accept punishment." Lian Chunyun stood on the dock with calm eyes and a good attitude.

Next to him was Yang Guohan, also in handcuffs, with two bailiffs standing behind him.Although the criminal facts of Yang Guohan and Lian Chunyun are different, the two cases are highly related, so they are tried together.

Yang Guohan frequently turned his head to look in Lian Chunyun's direction, his heart was burning with urgency, and he was out of breath.What is this stupid woman like Lian Chunyun thinking?Didn't you already agree to take the blame for him?Yang Guohan had already figured it out, as long as Lian Chunyun fully shouldered his previous charges, he held the police hostage and shot Xue Shen that day, if he defended well, he would not be sentenced to death.

"Judge, I want to expose Yang Guohan's crime." Lian Chunyun's voice sounded, and his eyes suddenly fell on Yang Guohan.

Yang Guohan froze and looked at Lian Chunyun in disbelief.In the bottom of my heart, it was as if a thunder had exploded on the ground, "You exposed me for committing a crime? You're dying of laughter! Lian Chunyun, are you crazy about jumping over the wall? Bitch!!!"

The unbearable insults and reprimands were quickly stopped by the judge.However, those words were firmly passed into Lian Chunyun's ears.Lian Chunyun looked at Yang Guohan with colder and colder eyes.Her mind kept echoing what Yang Guohan had said to her. He said that he loved her, and that he felt sorry for her to blame him, but only if he survived could she be safe.

But now it seems that Xue Shen is right.

Yang Guohan never thought of protecting her from the beginning to the end.If she, Lian Chunyun, took the blame for him, then she would be an abandoned son, an extremely stupid abandoned son, a cannon fodder! ! !

"Chunyun, that's not what I meant." Yang Guohan panicked, seeing Lian Chunyun's increasingly cold eyes, Yang Guohan lost his footing and was in chaos.

"I have evidence to prove that Yang Guohan had raped Chu Na." Lian Chunyun threw a bombshell again.

Chapter 330 Voluntary

"Lian Chunyun!" Yang Guohan's scalp went numb.Xue Shen, who has excellent eyesight, can even see goose bumps and fine hairs on the back of Yang Guohan's hands, standing up one by one.

"Defendant Yang Guohan, be quiet!" The presiding judge's face darkened.This is not the first time that Yang Guohan has yelled and roared in court.

Yang Guohan hesitated to speak, and looked at Lian Chunyun's eyes, as if he wanted to kill someone.

"Defendant Lian Chunyun, tell me!" The judge softened his tone and said to Lian Chunyun under the direction of the presiding judge.

"Yang Guohan usually works in the county, and I plant greenhouses in the village. We have no contact. But one time, I had an urgent matter to call him, but no one answered my phone, so I went to his work unit in the county to find him. His colleague said that he was called away by the leader, and he went out temporarily, and asked me to wait in Yang Guohan's office, but..."

Lian Chunyun waited for a long time, but Yang Guohan didn't arrive.

She was idle and bored, so she just walked around Yang Guohan's office casually.In the tea room of Yang Guohan's office, there is a lounge where only one bed can be accommodated.At the door of the lounge, Lian Chunyun smelled an unpleasant smell.At home, she is the kind of diligent person who loves to wash and scrub. Even if she has conflicts with Yang Guohan, she likes to solve them behind closed doors, but she doesn't want her man to lose face at work, so she wants to help him clean up.

As a result, when the door of the lounge was pushed open, Lian Chunyun was dumbfounded.

On the bed in the lounge, there was a pair of black lace women's underwear, which was still stained with dirt.The door of the bedside table was opened, and a large pile of transparent plastic bags were neatly filled inside, a bit like evidence bags.

In each transparent plastic bag, there is a pair of underwear or underwear.There are sticky notes on the mouth of the transparent plastic bag, and on the sticky notes are the names of women.

Lian Chunyun held back his nausea and looked through those plastic bags one by one.

The name written on a plastic bag was Chu Na.

Lian Chunyun told the truth everything she knew in court.In addition to what she said, the procuratorate also found five or six villagers from the same village to testify in court.

These five or six people entered the courtroom one by one to testify. After stating their testimony, the presiding judge on the bench and the two judges looked at each other and chatted in a low voice. The presiding judge held a file in his hand and said in a deep voice:

"According to the evidence provided by the procuratorate, the victim's lawyer, and the testimony of the defendant Lian Chunyun, we can only confirm that Yang Guohan and Chu Na had indeed had sexual relations." Could it be possible that they did not have sexual relations?The children were all born, and even died in the hands of Yang Guohan, who were made into bacon and sausages. The presiding judge continued unhurriedly: "But...the existing evidence cannot prove that the defendant Yang Guohan treated the victim Whether Chu Na committed rape."

Law and ethics have boundaries.

One cannot take it for granted that a person has committed a crime from a moral point of view.

In court, it is about evidence, about law, not morality! !

"Hehe...hehehe...thank you, the presiding judge, for being fair and righteous, thank you." Yang Guohan sneered, one crime of intentional homicide is enough to sentence him to death.Before he died, if he could add some embarrassment to these people, why would he not do it?

Yang Guohan turned his eyes to Xue Shen again, with a little provocation in his eyes.

With his back to the judge, he couldn't roar in court, so he mouthed to Xue Shen:

"How can you take me?"

"Whether I committed a crime of rape is not up to you, Xue Shen!!"

"If you point fingers here without any basis, you are not worthy of being a lawyer!!!" He knew that Xue Shen had learned to read lips, so he could understand what he was "saying".

A bunch of stupid pigs.

But so.

Think about those people on the Internet, who praise Xue Shen so much, saying that he is the number one lawyer, that he is the people's lawyer, that he is the number one lawyer in the country, that people are afraid of him, and that he is the most unofficial person in the legal circle... I think It's ridiculous to think!

Thinking of this, Yang Guohan's mouth turned into a contemptuous sarcasm.

"Judge." This time it was Song Jinguo who spoke. He stood up slowly while leaning on a cane. Xue Shen calmly reached out to help him. During the decades of imprisonment, the relationship with Yang Guohan."

"That's right." The presiding judge nodded.

"I think that when the female victim is illegally detained, the possibility of voluntary sexual relations with the perpetrator is very low. And because of the detention, the victim has no way to keep the evidence. Therefore, the proof of accusing Yang Guohan of constituting the crime of rape should be lowered. standard."

To put it bluntly, using evidence to prove the authenticity of the facts of the case was supposed to prove 95%.To lower the proof standard is to drop it to about 85%.

A person who has been imprisoned, you said she voluntarily had sex with the person who imprisoned her?Is she sick? ?

"Mr. Song, you can't say that." Yang Guohan didn't like to listen, clicked his tongue, and said, "What if she has Stockholm syndrome? Maybe...she has a tendency to be abused."

(Stockholm Syndrome: Refers to a complex in which the victim of a crime has feelings for the perpetrator, and even helps the perpetrator in turn.)

"You..." Chu Na's aunt Chu Ning Ning stood up from the auditorium, trembling with anger.But she is a high-ranking scholar from a scholarly family, an associate professor of marine engineering, and she is used to being gentle and polite on campus.

Yang Guohan glanced at Chu Ning, "What? Could it be... Stockholm Syndrome, is it a genetic disease in your family??" Nakedly humiliating people, without any cover-up.He is going to die, what are you afraid of?

Chu Na's aunt was so angry that she foamed at the mouth, rolled her eyes, and trembled all over.Several bailiffs and clerks were in a hurry, dialed 120 in a hurry, and drove the special car of the court to send Chu Ningying to the hospital.

After Chu Ning was carried away.

Xue Shen stared at Chu Ning Ning, and stroked his chin thoughtfully.Chu Ning Ning was very thin, with protruding high cheekbones on his skinny face, with abnormal bruises under his eyes, his whole body was haggard and crumbling, and his face was extremely pale.It seems that something is not quite right.

"Okay, now let's continue the trial." Xue Shen was interrupted by the presiding judge's words before he could figure out Chu Ning Ning's abnormality.

Xue Shen didn't want to talk nonsense with Yang Guohan anymore, so he took out an evidence bag from his briefcase.

"Judges, prosecutors."

"I... also have evidence to prove that the defendant was convicted of rape."

Lian Chunyun doesn't know the law, and her testimony just missed the key points.

But Xue Shen was different.

The evidence he presented can be finalized without any room for sophistry.

Chapter 331 Nails

"What kind of evidence is this? Lawyer Xue, did you take out the garbage bag at home as an evidence bag?" Yang Guohan smiled and glanced at Xue Shen's transparent evidence bag... a fingernail.

"These are Chu Na's nails." Xue Shen pulled out a biological appraisal report, and his clear and cold voice resounded in the courtroom in a moderate tone.

Yang Guohan's smile froze, and his masseter muscle twitched several times indistinctly.The students don't know what kind of turmoil he has in his heart.But Xue Shen got up and walked to the judge's bench, and when he handed the evidence to the judge, he noticed that the toes of Yang Guohan's feet were unconsciously facing the direction of the court door.In psychology, only when a person is afraid to face and wants to escape, will there be such body movements.

Yang Guohan was scared.

He is guilty.

Several judges looked at each other.

"nail?"

"Why are there nails?"

"This... vomit!"

The slightly younger female judge covered her mouth and almost spat it out.That piece of nail is not a small part cut off by nail clippers when cutting nails, but a whole piece of nail cover.

"A fingernail doesn't mean anything, right? This is a court, not your Xue Shen's words. Don't put all the shit on my head!" Yang Guohan stiffened his neck, and a look of luck flashed in his eyes.

Xue Shen looked at him with a smile that was not a smile, and there was a hint of playfulness in his eyes.

Yang Guohan became angry from embarrassment, pointed at Xue Shen and asked, "What do you mean by looking at me like that?"

"On this fingernail, skin tissue that does not belong to Chu Na was detected." Xue Shen said.

Shock flashed across Yang Guohan's face, his legs softened, and he fell uncontrollably to the ground.Xue Shen dared to show this piece of nail as evidence in court, even if Xue Shen didn't say who would own the skin tissue on the nail that didn't belong to Chu Na, it was self-evident.

Yang Guohan gritted his teeth, his face turned blue and white, and he was speechless.

There is no need for Xue Shen to worry about the rest.In court, there are people who are better at questioning than him.After Yang Guohan's iron-walled psychological defense line was torn open by Xue Shen, the prosecutor's words were thorny and sharp, and a few tricky questions were thrown out, and Yang Guohan's psychological defense line completely collapsed.Soon, he explained the whole process of his crime against Chu Na.

On the day of the trial, the police came to the court to explain the situation.The police who came to the court also said that Yang Guohan's testimony was highly consistent with the police's chain of evidence and logic.This means that Yang Guohan's suspicion of rape is basically a conclusion.

When the trial was over, several judges left the courtroom and went to the fully enclosed review room to discuss the final verdict of the case. Song Jinguo lowered his voice and asked Xue Shen in a low voice: "There is really Yang Guohan's skin tissue on that fingernail?" Is it?" The rape has happened for a year and a half, even if the fingernails can be found, can the skin tissue... really be identified?

Song Jinguo has been a lawyer since he was 25 years old, and has been a criminal lawyer for five or sixty years. He has handled thousands of criminal cases, if not tens of thousands.What evidence is reliable and what evidence is not reliable, he glanced over and knew it in his heart.

"Of course not." Xue Shen lowered his eyelids without changing his expression, and glanced at the lawyer's badge on his chest.

Song Jinguo's heart skipped a beat, "You are making false, false testimony..."

"No." Xue Shen raised his head and shrugged innocently: "What I just told Yang Guohan in court was that skin tissue that did not belong to Chu Na was detected on that nail. The nail is indeed Chu Na's." Na’s, as evidenced by the appraisal report. I just said that the skin tissue did not belong to Chu Na, and I did not say that it was Yang Guohan’s skin tissue.” It was he himself who had a guilty conscience.

The corner of Song Jinguo's mouth twitched, he stared at Xue Shen dumbfounded, speechless.

Did Xue Shen commit perjury?No.

Has Xue Shen violated court discipline and lawyers' professional ethics?No.

Did Xue Shen break the law?nor.

Everything he said was true and in full compliance with the law.Only the sentence about skin tissue, he confuses the audience and deliberately blurs the concept.But, who made Yang Guohan feel guilty?Xue Shen gave Yang Guohan a pointed look, and Yang Guohan confessed everything and vomited completely.

"You're really capable..." Black enough, shameless enough, and absolute enough.Song Jinguo thought in his heart, of course, these words are all praise words.

A lawyer, in the case of insufficient evidence, only used a fingernail to attract the suspect to tell the truth with a few words, and he did not lie in court, nor did he do anything against the law.This kind of ability, this kind of talent, made Song Jingguo break out in a cold sweat. He couldn't hold back and said to Xue Shen: "I'm glad you were born late." He's going to have a headache for the other party's lawyer.

"Thank you for the compliment." Xue Shen nodded shamelessly and agreed.

"Am I complimenting you?" Song Jinguo scolded with a smile, and stretched out his hand to beat Xue Shen, but he didn't use much force.

The verdict came out quickly, and it was an oral verdict.Lian Chunyun was sentenced to death with a reprieve for the crime of buying abducted women, illegal detention, and rape (assistant crime).Yang Guohan was also sentenced to death for being suspected of intentional homicide and rape, and was executed immediately.

Because it is a first-instance judgment, the result of the judgment will not take effect immediately. It will not be legally effective until the written judgment is served and the appeal period has passed.

And because this is a death sentence, even if the appeal period expires, the two defendants will not appeal. Even Chunyun's death sentence with a reprieve must be reported to the Higher Court of this province for approval.However, Yang Guohan's death sentence must be reported to the Supreme Court for approval immediately.Probably because the evidence in this case was convincing, the couple did not appeal.Of course, that's for later.

Let's talk about the present moment. After the presiding judge read out the oral verdict, Chu Na's parents were sobbing, and they were about to kneel down to Song Jinguo and Xue Shen on the spot.Since Chu Na was abducted more than 20 years ago, the old couple have posted missing person notices for more than 20 years, and even appeared on the public welfare tracing variety show "Wait for Me" on national TV.The old couple, who are over 60 years old, have all white hair, as many folds and wrinkles on their faces as if they were 80 years old, and age spots are all over the back of their hands. They are so old and desolate.

Because Chu Na had just passed away, the old couple were still wearing black and white clothes.When he came to court, he deliberately wore a white flower on his chest.At this moment, the two old men held Song Jinguo and Xue Shen's hands, tears streaming down their faces.

"Lawyer Song, Lawyer Xue, thank you, and I thank you for Xiaona!!!" Chu Na's father was so excited that he was incoherent.

"Finally, the gods have eyes, and let Yang Guohan get his retribution..." Chu Na's mother said.

"What retribution?" Chu Na's father was afraid that Song Jinguo and Xue Shen would not be happy, so he interrupted his wife and hurriedly said, "It's thanks to the two lawyers' outstanding ability!"

"Yes." Chu Na's mother took out a passbook and stuffed it into Xue Shen's hand, "Lawyer Xue, I know that the legal fees for you and Song are not cheap. Xiaona is dead, but we two old things I don’t like whoring for nothing, and there is not much money in the passbook, so don’t dislike it, just be kind. It’s a little small, and we will make up for it in the future.” It’s not that they want to renege on their debts, but that the couple have traveled all over the country. Every inch of land, to find the whereabouts of her daughter, is really out of money.

The house was mortgaged, the car was sold, pension funds were spent, and three credit cards were maxed out.

This is the last money they have left.

Chapter 332 Interview

In the end, neither Xue Shen nor Song Jinguo wanted the money, and they hurried out of the court after politely refusing it.Neither of them are masters who are short of money. Chu Na's family is indeed in a difficult situation. If even Chu Na's parents' pension money and life-saving money are stuffed into their pockets, what is the difference from eating human blood steamed buns?

Coming out of the court, Xue Shen personally drove Song Jinguo back home.The car was parked in the parking space at the gate of Song Jingguo. Xue Shen took out a well-packaged inkstone from the trunk and handed it to Song Jingguo, "Grandpa Song, this is for you." He remembered that Song Jinguo had to practice a few big characters every morning after getting up.

"Don't buy such expensive things next time. You are in the rising stage of your career, and the days of spending money are still to come. I really feel sorry for you. If you have time to sort out more criminal cases, use them to discuss with me. Let me see too. Look, what lawyer Xue is capable of." Song Jinguo took it over, thinking to himself that Xue Shen was a ruthless spender on shopping.It is estimated that Xue Shen will have to fight a lawsuit for a year to earn this inkstone back.

Xue Shen breathed a sigh of relief.I'm not afraid that Song Jinguo will take things, but I'm afraid that Song Jinguo won't want his things, "It's not very expensive." It's true that it's a little expensive.

Later, Xue Shen often came to Song Jinguo to discuss the case with some weird criminal cases.Of course, he blurred out all the content in the dossier that involved the privacy and secrets of the parties involved. He only sorted out the legal relationship of the case and discussed criminal law issues with Song Jinguo.After going back and forth, the two quickly became acquainted, and they didn't get along like strangers without blood relationship, but like friends who forgot the years, more like grandparents.

Every time Xue Shen came with a case, he went into Song Jingguo's study. Song Jinguo's eyes were blurred when he got old, so he asked Xue Shen to read him the basic facts of the case.As long as you can read and write according to the script, it is a small case for Xue Shen, but while Song Jinguo is listening, he will interrupt him from time to time, asking him what he thinks about a certain legal relationship, and testing him. An understanding of a legal concept.

Xue Shen is mainly engaged in civil and commercial law, he can only say that he has dabbled in criminal law, and he really doesn't know much about it.When encountering something he doesn't understand, Song Jinguo will explain it to him, and also tell him some hidden rules and key skills in criminal defense in court.In just a few hours of conversation, Xue Shen felt that he had benefited a lot.Song Jingguo has worked as a criminal litigation lawyer for 60 years and as a professor for 40 years, which is extremely precious.

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