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Trial

Wait, they didn't want to hear this!

Constance, who was escorted to the dock by the court knights, was dressed in plain clothes and pale. Although she didn't say a word, she raised her chin and lowered her eyes, as if unwilling to cooperate.

From the moment Constance walked into the gate, many Montes who couldn't hold back stood up excitedly. If they hadn't maintained the most basic upbringing, Lu Shiqing suspected that Constance might have received rotten eggs on the spot. Vegetable leaves and the like.

The justice rang the bell and said loudly, "Silence!"

There was still a commotion in the auditorium for a while before it quieted down.

"The trial of Constance Yue's treason case is held here today." The justice said, "According to the treason trial process, all members of the Supreme Court jury must be present. However, due to the special nature of this case, some jurors Participating in treason has automatically disqualified you from being a jury. According to the jury regulations of the Supreme Court, we invite Her Majesty the Queen to fill up the number of people according to the jury filling standard. Alternate jury members come from the royal family, the Senate, the House of Lords, the House of Representatives, The military department has already attended the jury, if anyone has any objections to the new jury members, please raise it on the spot."

Under the threat of Constance, some members of the jury chose to side with Constance for whatever reason, so they naturally became accomplices and lost their jury qualifications.Therefore, the newly added members were selected from the candidates according to the recruitment criteria, and they were basically former victims. Naturally, no one else had any objections.

After confirming that everyone had no objection to the jury members, the judge asked the prosecutor to state Constance's more than a dozen charges, including treason, smuggling, collusion with star robbers, and endangering public safety.Of course, everyone knows that the most important of these is treason, because treason is a general charge that may include other criminal facts.

"Defendant Constance Jo, do you dispute the above charge?" asked the Justice.

In theory, Constance could hire a defender to defend her, but unfortunately, no lawyer was willing to be Constance's defender.

The evidence of her crime of treason is conclusive, and the circumstances are bad, no matter how she defends, the maximum sentence has not escaped anyway.According to the current laws of the Monya Empire, the defendant can defend himself without a defender, which is the so-called self-defense in court.

But Constance obviously didn't want to cooperate, she bowed her head and said nothing.

The judge had to repeat the question three times, telling the defendant not to give up the opportunity to defend himself. If he continued to fail to cooperate, it would be regarded as a default crime.

After the justice asked three times, Constance finally spoke: "How are my accomplices judged?"

The judge obviously didn't expect that Constance would neither plead guilty nor defend herself in court, but cared about being an accomplice of treason.

However, according to the rules, the judge still has to answer this question: "According to the current law, the accomplice of the crime of treason will be tried in the same court as the principal criminal, after the criminal facts of the principal criminal are confirmed."

Constance smiled contemptuously: "I have no objection to the prosecution's statement, you can start the trial of the accomplice."

The jury was very dissatisfied with Constance's arrogant attitude, and they all turned to look at the judge, hoping that he would quickly enter the next session.The judge's expression was quite helpless, so he announced according to the procedure: "The defendant Constance Yue confessed to the crime, and the jury is invited to start the discussion."

A mature-looking tomcat in the jury couldn't wait to ask: "Does your poisonous tea have an antidote, and where did you put the antidote?"

Constance looked up at the tomcat, with a sarcastic smile on her face and did not answer.

The justice rang the bell: "Jury members please pay attention to the rules and don't ask about things that have nothing to do with this case."

The tomcat almost took the case, but fortunately his sanity returned quickly, and he didn't want to be thrown out of the jury for failing to follow the rules: "Sorry Your Honor, I think this issue is relevant to this case. Constance Yoo obviously It also involves the crime of poisoning, and if she poisons without preparing an antidote, the nature is even worse, which will affect her punishment."

In fact, there is no authoritative judgment to determine whether the tea leaves that have been tampered with are poisonous or other problems. If they can figure it out, they will not be afraid that Constance will not have an antidote.

However, whether the crime of poisoning is successful or not does not actually affect Constance's sentence. The crime of treason already deserves the maximum penalty, and the other charges are nothing more than debts for her.

But the justice did not understand the mood of the jury, and forgave the tomcat's strong words: "The jury can continue to ask questions."

The other jury members also asked each other, mostly about how Constance prepared the problematic tea, some asked about the details of how she colluded with the star robbers, and some asked about black market smuggling.

There were a lot of these questions, and Constance just smiled and said nothing, and at the end there were only questions from the jury members.

In the end, there was someone who understood, and one of the jurors said: "Your Excellency, we request that the accomplice be summoned as a tainted witness."

Constance didn't want to say it, but her subordinates would always have something to say, right?Besides, isn't there still Prince Seville?

In view of the relatively large number of accomplices, even some accomplices with "minor circumstances" are not eligible to be tried individually.

For example, those tomcats who defected temporarily at the wedding, no matter what the reason was, agreed to join Constance's plan. Since it was impossible to identify whether they were innocent one by one, they were at least accomplices in terms of results. The consequences, so for the time being, they are all dealt with lightly.

It’s just that it’s not unreasonable to deal with it lightly, and according to the laws of the Monya galaxy, we still have to go through the procedure and ask if anyone objects.

There are often people who report other people's crimes in order to reduce their sentences for meritorious service.

Therefore, among these huge number of accomplices, a few who seemed to have treasonous tendencies were arrested and left for review and investigation.

Lu Shiqing couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in the audience, and whispered to his fiancé sitting beside him, "Why do these guys talk about trivial things for a long time?"

For example, a certain tomcat is Constance's suitor, or a certain tomcat has long been dissatisfied with the society, and even a certain family bought Constance's tea, etc...

It's outrageous, is it really good to waste public time on such a big occasion?

Abel had expected this situation a long time ago. Those tomcats would join the enemy under the threat of Constance. It can be seen that they are not strong-willed people. They only think about how to reduce their punishment, and they have to try everything Try, what if?

However, the judge will not waste everyone's time like this all the time. All the defendants' words in the court must be recorded. If someone is suspected of talking nonsense, the sentence may be increased.

After the knights of the court invited a few tomcats who talked endlessly and didn't focus on the point back to the cell, gradually no one in the court rushed to speak, and even if there were re-indictments, they would only speak after careful consideration.

Even so, after hundreds of accomplices spoke, most of the day has passed, and the court was adjourned twice during this period, in order for everyone to solve their own personal problems, ahem.

When it was finally the turn of several important tainted witnesses to appear in court, it was already the beginning of the night. Even though the trial was too long and exhausting, none of the audience left the seat halfway through.

After the third adjournment, when the court session was about to resume, the court knight notified the whole court of the queen's presence, so everyone spent a few more minutes simply picking up the car.

Behind the justices of the Supreme Court, there is a seat specially set up for the head of state, but generally speaking, this seat is vacant.

The last time Lu Shiqing came to the Supreme Court to hear the trial of Lu's offshoots, the queen did not attend the trial, but only let Marshal Adi, the king's husband, participate.

The last time the Queen attended the Supreme Court was when the heirs of the old Prince Tang Ke's family were tried for treason.

Seeing the Queen's arrival, everyone's spirits were shaken, and they knew that the main event was coming. It should be that those relatively "heavyweight" accomplices, or even accomplices, would finally be tried.

Constance's general subordinates are definitely not enough to watch, and her most important right-hand men, Zara and Lizzie, have already been sentenced to life-long electrocution for smuggling and harming the youngest son of the Uckley family. They didn't know about it at all, and the other went crazy for no reason. Even if they didn't know whether it was real or fake, they couldn't find out what was going on.

The jury members put their hopes on the accomplice Prince Sewell.

Yes, even if Prince Sewell will definitely lose the right to inherit the throne, he has not been deprived of the royal title for the time being before the treason trial is pronounced.

Unlike other accomplices, Sewell, as an accomplice, was also read out by the prosecution against him personally.

It is nothing more than a similar crime to Constance, except that the crime of poisoning and anti-social crimes are missing.

The justice asked routinely: "The defendant, Prince Sewell, do you have any objection to the above complaint?"

Sitting next to Prince Sewell was a defender appointed by the royal family. The other party was about to defend Sewell, but was stopped by Seville: "These charges are basically the same, but I want to say something you don't know."

The jury members' eyes suddenly brightened, thinking that Sewell, as an accomplice of Constance, knew more about the situation. Most of them were either poisoned by Constance themselves, or there were relatives who were poisoned by Constance at home, and they all waited. Let's see what clues Sewell can offer.

It's a pity that they are doomed to be disappointed, and Sewell himself doesn't know what to do: "Actually, Constance should have a secret research room. Although she is not very smart, she may have some talent for doing research. .”

The jury members looked at each other, wait, they didn't want to hear this!

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