First-Class Lawyer

Joshua Dale's life became very inconvenient due to the injury of one hand. If he was alone, he would have to deal with it, but there was also a younger sister, Rosie Dale, who had not yet recovered. This is a bit stretched.

In order to prevent the human tragedy where both brothers and sisters starved to death in the old house, they temporarily stayed at the hotel where Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan stayed for the past two days.

During the bail period, Joshua Dale will be subject to many restrictions, such as not being able to leave the urban area where he lives casually, and not being able to meet victims and witnesses to prevent collusion.

Even the relatives of the victim, Mrs. Kitty Bell, such as the teenager who poured boiling water that day, he could not meet without authorization.

But his connections with lawyers are off limits.

bang bang-

Yan Suizhi's room door rang.

Such a rude and disturbing knock on the door, one could tell it was Joshua Dale.

Yan Suizhi was sitting on the sofa chair by the window, relaxing his injured leg, resting his chin, looking through the case files calmly.

Hearing the sound, he said without raising his head, "Come in."

This state is almost the same as when he was in the dean's office.

Gu Yan, who was sitting across from him, was answering an email, when he heard this, he snapped his fingers and raised his eyelids.

Yan Suizhi turned another page before he noticed Gu Yan's eyes, "What's wrong?"

He finally came to his senses after saying this, picked up the remote control on the desktop with a dry smile and pressed the door open button, and added an explanation: "I thought I was still in Decama, but I forgot that the hotel rooms here are not voice-activated."

Gu Yan withdrew his gaze coldly, and continued to return the mail in his hand.

Professor Yanda rejoiced in his heart, fortunately, his explanation was quite natural.

"Why did you call me here?" Joshua Dale began to complain as soon as he entered the door, scratching his hair and said irritably, "Are you asking about what happened that night again?"

He didn't have such advanced gadgets as a smart phone. Fortunately, the hotel room had internal communication, so Yan Suizhi only needed to move his fingers to "argue" this kid.

"What do you say? Otherwise, what else can I ask you?" Yan Suizhi put down the holographic page in his hand.

"It's just such a process. In the past two days, you have asked 800 times upside down." Joshua Dale was very reluctant, and even walked a little harder.

"Come on, don't struggle to the death, it's useless." Yan Suizhi patted the third chair with the corner of his mouth curled up, motioning him to sit down obediently.

Asking Joshua about the incident and his movements at that time is what Gu Yan has been doing for the past two days.

According to the regulations of the alliance lawyer industry, a third party must be present when the trial lawyer meets the client.The identity of the third party is not limited, it can be an assistant, an intern, or a solicitor.The original intention is to prevent some lawyers from using some unlawful means in order to win the case.

Of course, there's really no point in that.

Because Yan Suizhi's leg was injured, it was not convenient to move around, and Gu Yan didn't want to be blinded by his limping around at such a slow speed, so the place to ask Joshua was simply set at Yan Suizhi's room.

Gu Yan answered the three work emails neatly, looked up at Joshua and said, "Even though I've asked you 800 times, I still need you to assure me that everything you said is the truth."

Joshua snorted, rolled his eyes and raised his hands: "Of course it's the truth. Why did I lie to you? I didn't steal anything from others. If I said I didn't do it, then I didn't do it."

Yan Suizhi thought for a while and added: "I think it is still necessary to remind you that according to industry regulations, lawyers have a duty of confidentiality. We have the right and obligation to keep what you say confidential."

To what extent is it kept secret?For example, when the person involved is accused of intentional homicide, the police have been unable to find the murder weapon for a long time.Even if the client confessed to the lawyer how the murder weapon was disposed of, the lawyer could not tell the police about it.

This thing sounds very bad, and it is even worse in the eyes of ordinary people.

Some people carry out this express duty without hindrance; others struggle and restlessness all the time.

Yan Suizhi said before when joking with others that this is a law of the devil, black, dark, contrary to the simplest morality, and disgusting.But the reality is that only under the framework of this law, the devils will tell the truth.

Yan Suizhi reassured Joshua Dale for the 800th time, and said slowly, "So—"

"So I hope I don't have any scruples. If I say anything, even if it involves some very bastard content, it will be kept secret." Joshua finished speaking for him in an endorsed tone without any ups and downs, and muttered: "Got it , I can hear the old callus can answer quickly."

Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan were calmer than the other, and they were used to his impatient attitude.

"So from the afternoon to the evening of the 21st, what did you do?" Yan Suizhi asked according to the existing information of the case.

"When I was working that day, I had a conflict with someone, and I was injured on my cheekbone. I got an extra compensation of 100 yuan, and I was able to leave the construction site early, and I got a half-day vacation..."

His face was swollen, and he held the money again, in a delicate mood.It's hard to say whether it's more depression and irritability, or more surprises for an extra sum of money.

Or maybe the contradiction itself is sad.

He rubbed his cheekbones and licked the smell of blood in his mouth, went home to catch a short sleep, went to the street with money in his pocket, went to the small jewelry wholesale store in the alley and bought a pair of pearl earrings for 68 xi.

Then he went up the fence of Kitty Bell's house with the cheap but pretty pearl earrings.

"Why did you spend 68 dollars to buy that pair of earrings?" Gu Yan asked.

Although this question has been answered many times, Joshua still remains silent for a few seconds before answering.

"...Because I dreamed of my grandmother when I was sleeping in the afternoon." Joshua said.

"Why do you dream about your grandmother?"

"...Who knows."

Maybe the slapped cheekbone suddenly hurt more than every other wound in the past, or the 100 West compensation suddenly made him feel wronged and boring...

Joshua, who was in a short sleep, just dreamed of his grandmother who had passed away for several years.

He dreamed that he was standing in the small kitchen, cooking porridge with vegetable leaves for his younger sister. It was raining heavily outside, and the water dripping from the eaves formed a curtain.

Grandmother stood outside the kitchen window under the eaves to hide from the rain, looking at him kindly.

He pushed open the window and said to his grandmother, "It's raining heavily outside, and the eaves can't stop it. Why are you standing here? Come in quickly."

Grandmother touched the wet corner of her clothes, looked into the room again, smiled gently and said, "I won't go in, I just want to see you."

Joshua was a little anxious, "Come in, come in quickly, the rain is going to hit you."

Grandma still smiled and didn't enter the door.

In the dream, he didn't know why he was so anxious to let his grandmother into the house, and he didn't know why he was so sad.

He just woke up from that intense sadness, lay on the bed for a while with his red eyes staring, and then suddenly wanted to buy a pair of pearl earrings.

Because my grandmother had said years ago, before she passed away, that she had always wanted a pair.

"Why climb up the wall of Kitty Bell's house?" Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan were still asking questions in turn.

"Because when she was sitting in the armchair and knitting a scarf by the light, she was very similar to her grandmother..." Joshua said, "The reading glasses are very similar, the movements are very similar, and the whole profile is very similar."

Sometimes when he suddenly missed his grandmother, he would squat on the fence and watch for a while without saying a word under the cover of the night and the moisture on the window.

He bought the pearl earrings on impulse that day, and when he walked home, he realized that he had no grandmother to give him these earrings.

So he climbed up to the fence of Kitty Bell's house again in the dark, and this time he didn't just look at it, but jumped quietly into the yard.He hung the little black velvet bag with the pearl earrings by the door.

Unexpectedly, Kitty Bell's house happened to be robbed that night, and the velvet bag containing the earrings was blown to the ground by the wind.

Without other conclusive clues of identity, that velvet pocket just happened to be an important criminal evidence.The alley was messy and old, and there were no cameras available, but the police tracked down the store selling pearl earrings and called up the store's surveillance. Joshua's process of buying earrings was clearly seen in the surveillance.

Later, Joshua was determined to have entered Kitty Bell's house through the residual mud traces on the soles of Joshua's shoes...

In short, the evidence points point by point to Joshua.

"Let me confirm again, when did you leave the yard?" Gu Yan said.

Joshua: "It's less than 7:[-]."

The robbery took place between about 7:50 and 8:10, and it would be nice to prove the time difference.

It's also their best shot, as long as it proves Joshua is out of the yard early.

Unfortunately, there were no cameras installed in the alley, and no one passed by at the time, and no one could give Joshua an alibi during that time.

"It would be great if there was a camera." Yan Suizhi nodded his fingertips, feeling slightly regretful, "It's a pity..."

Joshua looked desperate, "So you still can't help after asking 800 times?"