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Shen Lie crossed his arms and asked, "Are you still working for the defendant's company Epps Group?"

"No more," Klein shook his head, "I resigned on October 10."

Shen Lie turned to the jury: "Just seven days later." He turned to Klein again, "Why did you resign? Vincent gave you a promotion, and you can get more opportunities and wealth in Epps."

"For me, dignity is more important than opportunity and wealth." Klein said lightly, "I can't bear to see him every day in the company, and he often even finds a reason for me to come to his office, beating around the bush in various ways Pick up a conversation about that night."

Shen Lie took the initiative to ask about the [-] dollars that Vincent mentioned in the morning: "In the morning, Vincent Osterley testified that the day after he raped you, he left [-] dollars on your bedside table. dollars."

Klein explained: "In my state the next day, I didn't actually notice the cash on the bedside table. Then my friend, Dr. Ning, came to help me," he said Ning was Ning Zhou, "he asked me how I put so much cash The cash was on the nightstand, and I didn't realize it was Vincent's left here."

"And what did you do?"

"I'm mad," Klein gritted his teeth. "Did he rape me and still treat me as a sex worker? I later returned the three thousand dollars to him along with my resignation letter. I don't need to pay for it." What a way to get money!"

"I see," Shen Lie said, "How did you return the three thousand dollars?"

"I wanted to return the three thousand dollars directly with the resignation letter, but I didn't want to have a face-to-face transaction with him, which made me sick. I just handed the resignation letter directly to the human resources department. I am afraid of thick cash It's too obvious to put it inside," Klein explained, "I transferred three thousand dollars from my card to the defendant on the day I handed in my resignation letter."

Shen Lie turned around and picked up a document from the table, and gave one to Judge Donovan and the other to the jury: "Prosecution exhibit C, Klein Reid's bank statement on October 10th, you can see At 18:13 p.m., $17 was transferred from Klein's card balance to the defendant's account."

Shen Lie put the document back and said: "Let me summarize, the defendant said that the two of you had a one-night stand between you and me, but you clearly refused; the defendant said that there was a power and sex transaction between you, and you sold your body , he gave you a promotion. But in fact, you chose to resign after seven days; the defendant said that he gave you [-] U.S. dollars in "prostitution money" on the second day, but in fact you never asked for it. The three thousand dollars was not only sent to you by him, but you also returned the money when you resigned. So in fact, you don???t owe him anything, but he committed a crime and raped you?????? Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Leon open his mouth, and slowly added, "???is that right?"

Klein said firmly: "It's absolutely correct."

Leon closed his mouth.

Shen Lie smiled at him: "There is no other question."

Lyon stood up, buttoned the front of his suit, and asked the first question: "The first question, Mr. Rhett, if according to you, this is really a rape case, why didn't you choose Call the police immediately?"

Klein asked rhetorically, "If you were raped, would you choose to call the police?"

Lyon was blocked back, and said to Judge Donovan in an unhappy tone: "Your Excellency, please force the witness to answer the question directly."

Judge Donovan looked at Klein from above his glasses: "Lawyer, you understand the process."

Klein actually knew what he had to answer, he just wanted to disgust Leon: "I am a man, as a man, it is a very shameful thing to be raped by another man. He has already stepped on my dignity , I don???t want to spread out my wounds for everyone to see and judge.???

Leon spread his hands, looking very confused: "Then why did you decide to 'spread your wounds for everyone to see and judge' after a lapse of one year?"

"Because I know this may be the only way to get this scumbag Vincent Osterley punished." Klein looked at Vincent coldly, who actually showed him an innocent look. smile.

Leon approached Klein, half leaning on the table in front of him: "Why do you say that?"

Klein shifted his gaze from Vincent to Leon's face, stared at him without hesitation, and lowered the volume so that only the two of them could hear: "Do you really want me to say it? Do you really want to talk about it?" Do you really think I won't say it? Do you really think that I really care about the so-called non-disclosure agreement and lawyer's certificate to this point?"

Leon frowned upon hearing that, and he and Klein looked at each other. In those light purple eyes, what he saw was not an expression of excitement and resentment, but a calmness like a dead ocean.

It's like the calm before the storm, deep and indifferent, with the determination to kill you and kill me.

If you dare to threaten me with leaking the confidentiality agreement and losing my lawyer's license, I can really do it.

Klein sneered inwardly.

Barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, my dignity has been torn apart, do you still care about that thin paper certificate?

Leon was also shocked by his decisive eyes. After half a minute, he said a word to withdraw, and retracted the question just now.

There was no expression on his face, but a question really arose in his heart.

Could it be that Klein was really raped by Vincent?

But no matter what he thinks in his heart, he is still a lawyer with a high level of professionalism after all. He then asked: "Second question, if according to what you said, the incident happened on October 10, and you three days later You still chose to go to the company, and the purpose of going to the company was not to resign. That is to say, after that night, you didn't actually have the idea of ??????resigning?"

Klein said: "In the three days after I was raped, I was recuperating. I was seriously injured. After I could barely walk around on the fourth day, I went back to Epps and my brain was very serious. I don't know how to deal with this matter, but what I can be sure of is that I can't stay in Epps any longer."

"But you still haven't resigned," Leon chased after, "In fact, you didn't submit your resignation until seven days later, and in your statement just now, you mentioned that it was because of the defendant's 'harassment' that forced you to resign finally. Yes. So can we understand that your resignation and your departure are not because of the so-called 'rape case', but because of inappropriate workplace 'harassment' by my client out of his obsession with you?"

Shen Lie's eyebrows twitched, he heard that this was Lyon's trick, he wanted to turn this case from a nasty 'rape case' into a harmless sexual harassment in the workplace.But he still doesn't have the right position to object, so he can only hope that Klein will notice it and not be led astray by him.

Klein said word by word: "You can't understand it that way, because your understanding is wrong. I resigned and I filed a lawsuit because he raped me, drugged me without my knowledge, and Forcibly having sex with me after clearly refusing, this is not a flirtatious 'harassment', this is 'first-degree sodomy', a felony. And he must also pay the price for the illegal behavior he has done."

The pimple between Shen Lie's eyebrows was slowly untied.

Ning Yuan, who had already testified so he could stay in the judging stand, quietly shook his thumb at Klein.

Simply the best MVP in the game!

small theater:

Lyon: "Your Excellency, please let the witness answer the question directly."

Judge Donovan: "Lawyer, you understand the process."

Klein actually knew what he had to answer, he just???

???Pi is very happy now.