Hello, Mr. Major General

The prosecutor in Little Rock was almost speechless for a while by He Zhichu.

His lips quivered, and his throat issued a series of meaningless syllables, expressing his anger.

He Zhichu only looked at him calmly, with a cold sneer in her peach blossom eyes.

The assistant next to the prosecutor quietly tugged on his sleeves, and the prosecutor recovered, gave He Zhichu a fierce look, and continued to question the housekeeper.

"Mr. Butler, please tell us about the situation on the day of the fire in Vanderbilt's house."

The butler looked depressed and sad, walked to the witness stand, and said painfully: "That day is no different from other times. Mr. Vanderbilt went out for his dog after dinner. Then..." He suddenly turned around and pointed to the sitting on the dock. Ye Xuan gritted his teeth and said, "Then this bastard! He has been pestering our husband for several days! At the beginning, he secretly pretended to be a passerby to spy on our husband, but was discovered by our husband, and then pestered our husband. What to do, after being rejected by the husband, he became angry, set the house on fire, and killed everyone in our husband's family!"

As soon as the housekeeper's words came out, there was an uproar in the courtroom.

The six members of the jury looked different, and all looked thoughtfully at Ye Xuan in the dock.

The people in the auditorium have begun to angrily accuse Ye Xuan.

These people are all neighbors living in the neighborhood of Vanderbilt's family. They have a good relationship with this family. Seeing that they died innocently and tragically, there are four children among them, and they hate Ye Xuan even more.

Someone even stood up publicly and called him "Devil! You will have retribution!"

He Zhichu looked back and coldly glanced at the booing person.

The judge knocked on the gavel with no expression on his face. "There should be no noise in the courtroom. Please get out the person who just shouted."

Several bailiffs came over and drove out the person who stood up and called Ye Xuan a "devil".

At this time, everyone was much quieter, and no one talked freely.

The prosecutor comforted the emotional butler, then walked to Ye Xuan and asked with a triumphant expression: "Mr. Ye, have you spied on Mr. Vanderbilt? Just answer yes or no."

Ye Xuan thought for a moment, he did observe Mr. Vanderbilt for a few days before meeting him.

Because he was not sure whether Gu Yanran's words were true or false, of course he had to confirm it first.

But if he answered yes, then he would prove that he was "peeping."

Peeping and observation are two completely different concepts, which can seriously mislead the jury members.

Before Ye Xuan answered, he looked at He Zhichu.

He Zhichu didn't have any expressions, it seemed that it didn't matter what he answered, there was a calm and leisurely attitude.

This relaxed mood infected Ye Xuan, and he calmly said, "No."

"You lied?!" The prosecutor became even more excited. "Not only the butler has seen you peeping at Mr. Vanderbilt, but others have also seen it. There are all witnesses, so dare you to quibble?!"

Ye Xuan didn't speak anymore, because He Zhichu had already stood up and defended him: "Your prosecutor, before you assert that my client is lying, please explain the definition of'voyeurism'."

Prosecutor: "..."

"Your Excellency, please answer my question." He Zhichu did not rush, and asked him to answer again.

Even the judge looked at the prosecutor.

The prosecutor thought carefully and said intermittently: "Peeping is the act of peeking into the privacy of others without their permission."

He Zhichu nodded, walked to the butler, and said, "Mr. Butler, when you saw my client'spying' on Vanderbilt, where was he?"

"...In the street." The butler replied blankly. "Many people have seen it. They can testify."

He pointed to the neighbors in the block sitting in the gallery.

Everyone nodded, indicating that the butler was right.

He Zhichu's face was solemn and his cold eyes swept across the courtroom. Some people couldn't help but lower their heads. After looking away, they looked back at the butler and said, "It was day or night. ."

"During the day, oh, it should be the evening." The butler hurriedly emphasized, "I was just watching the cook set up the kitchen and came out to take Mr. Vanderbilt home."

"So, your husband exposed his privacy on the street in the evening?" He Zhichu twitched, "Excuse me, what privacy did he expose?"

"No! The defendant's lawyer slandered the reputation of the deceased!" The prosecutor immediately stood up and pointed at He Zhichu and denounced, "...Lawyer He is so famous that he actually asked such a question! I never thought you were such a lawyer!"

He Zhichu stood quietly on the courtroom, his body was straight, Xiao Xiao Susu, the prosecutor with the greasy face set off by his upright manner was like a jumping clown.

He waited slowly for him to finish before retorting: "Your prosecutor has just said that the legal definition of'voyeurism' is an act of peeking into the privacy of others without their permission. My client is on the street during the day. Seeing the deceased Mr. Vanderbilt, in this case, how can my client peek at the privacy of another person walking on the street? Unless that person is exposing his privacy."

The prosecutor was dizzy by He Zhichu's series of question marks. After a while, he recollected that he was self-talking!

He Zhichu walked him in right from the beginning.

Let him explain what "voyeurism" means first, and then use his own definition to defeat him, it is really treacherous!

The prosecutor glared at He Zhichu, clenched his fists, and said confidently: "Peeking at others without their permission is peeping!"

"Wrong." He Zhichu shook his finger. "In law, you must peek at the privacy of others to be called peeping. Since both were on the street at the time and the deceased did not commit any privacy behavior, the prosecutor And Mr. Butler’s accusation against my client of'spying' Mr. Vanderbilt is unfounded."

The judge nodded and knocked the gavel, "Prosecutors and witnesses, please pay attention to your words."

The first move of the prosecutor was solved by He Zhichu.

He angrily continued to ask the cook, "What were you doing that day?"

The cook is not like a housekeeper. She has been in the kitchen or in her own staff dormitory. She has never seen Xuan Xuan at all. She just heard Mr. Butler mention several times, and said honestly: "I'm cooking. Clean up the kitchen and dining room. Mr. Butler returned first with the dog, saying that Mr. Vanderbilt had seen the man who had been following him again, and the two were talking and arguing."

"Look here, the man who quarreled with Mr. Vanderbilt, is he here?" The prosecutor asked the cook to find the man in the court.

The chef’s gaze stayed curiously on Ye Xuan’s face for a while, and finally took it back, saying: "I have never seen that person, nor have I heard that person’s voice. I only heard that Mr. Butler mentioned it. A person, so I cannot identify anyone."

The cook refused to identify Ye Xuan, and the members of the jury immediately looked at each other.

The prosecutor's face was dark, and he questioned the neighbors in the same neighborhood.

Some of these people saw the night Xuan and remember him because he thought he was very handsome...

But what they saw was no different from Mr. Butler. They saw Ye Xuan and Mr. Vanderbilt arguing on the street, but they didn't know what they were arguing.

The last witness to question was Mr. Sergeant of the Little Rock Police Station.

He is more calm and tough than other witnesses.

The prosecutor was very happy when he saw him.

"Mr. Sheriff, you arrested a Barbadian man suspected of arson and murder in the early morning of October 29. Is he in court?"

The sheriff gave Ye Xuan a fierce look, and said in a huff, "Yes, he's in this courtroom, that's him." Then, he pointed at Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan looked down at the desktop in front of him, not at the sheriff at all.

"Why did you arrest him?"

"Because he is suspected of arson and murder of Mr. Vanderbilt's family! Very wicked! Very wicked!" The sheriff said categorically, his face was righteous and very contagious.

Two jurors were almost brainwashed by his words, and they began to think that Ye Xuan was guilty.

He Zhichu raised his hand, "No, Mr. Sheriff’s words are only subjective judgments. Without any personal evidence, I arrested my client and detained him for more than 72 hours without any reason. We reserve the right to claim compensation from the Little Rock Police and Mr. Sheriff. s right."

"What are you talking about?! Claim?!" The sheriff was angry and leaned out from the witness stand, shouting at the beginning of He: "Are you questioning my professional ability?! I have been a sergeant for thirty years, and I haven't been victimized yet. Questioned!"

"It's the first time in everything, Mr. Sheriff, you have to get used to being questioned in the future." He Zhichu spread his hands, and his eyes flicked across the court, before finally falling on the face of the sheriff, "Mr. Sheriff. , Please tell me why you think Ye Xuan is the first suspect?"

"It's very simple. He had an argument with Mr. Vanderbilt before. After the argument, he was missing for four hours. Within these four hours, Mr. Vanderbilt's family was brutally killed and set on fire. This is heinous. The crime was done by this person!" The sheriff's words echoed inside and outside the courtroom again, and everyone couldn't help but listen.

One after another, he cast his eyes on Ye Xuan with scrutiny.

Ye Xuan still looked down, sitting upright in the dock.

After the sheriff finished speaking, the prosecutor stood up and read out the accusation against Ye Xuan in a spirited manner.

"...The Barbadian man Ye Xuan was charged with arson on October 28 at Vanderbilt's house in Little Rock, Utah, and the murder of twelve members of his family. The judge and jurors are requested to consider the seriousness of the case and impose appropriate punishment on this. "

The prosecutor simply filed an accusation, and then the defendant's lawyer will cross-examine the witnesses and review the evidence to refute the prosecution's accusation.

It was also because of the urgency of time, it was too late to explain the key points to Smith, and he was worried that Smith would not be able to respond to the situation and mess up the trial. He Zhichu chose to appear in court to defend himself.

He did not hurriedly got up from the dock, walked to the center of the court, and gracefully nodded to everyone.

Almost everyone in the court had a good impression of him as soon as they saw him, only the sheriff had a cold eye on him.

He Zhichu didn't see the sergeant's gaze. He walked straight to the prosecutor and spoke fluently in standard Oxford English: "Prosecutor, what are your direct witnesses and evidence for making the charges? Just now I didn’t see that you mentioned direct witnesses and evidence at all."

"The direct witness is Mr. Butler, and the evidence is the scene of the fire. Do you have any questions?" The prosecutor sneered at the corners of his mouth, disapproving of He Chu.

He Zhichu walked up to him calmly, stroking his chin with one hand, and holding the other elbow, and said thoughtfully: "In the eyes of the prosecutor, I saw it four hours before the murder. People who are right can also be called direct evidence. No wonder you have only won 10% of the lawsuits and lost 90% of the lawsuits during your 30 years as a prosecutor."

"You spit someone!" The prosecutor didn't expect He Chu to know his work performance ratio, and he became furious, "You violated my privacy! I want to sue you!"

"Your Excellency, as a public official, your work performance is not about personal privacy, and taxpayers have the right to know the actual content." He Zhichu's voice cooled down, and he turned his head to look at the excited police chief, "and Mr. Sheriff, your use of subjective assumptions instead of objective evidence to arrest people is a serious abuse of the power of public trust."

When the prosecutor heard He Chu's involvement in the abuse of public power by the police, he screamed inwardly and yelled badly...

Sure enough, the faces of the members of the jury changed immediately, including the three men who had initially dismissed Ye Xuan, and they all began to think about He Zhichu's question of police abuse of public power.

"Dear members of the jury, the murder of Mr. Vanderbilt is very complicated. But the case my client involved is very simple. In short, he just accidentally appeared in an inappropriate place and was used and framed. , And the sheriff, instead of catching the real murderer, but only relying on hearsay, without any direct personal or physical evidence, arrested my client and refused bail at one time.-If this is also possible, then legal Where are the dignity? Where are the personal rights of citizens?!"

He Zhichu's clear voice fell to the ground, and every word was like a heavy hammer, hitting everyone in the courtroom.

The sheriff was sweating profusely by what He Zhichu said, and hurriedly stood up to defend: "I did not abuse public power! I have evidence!"

"What evidence? A housekeeper saw my client talking to Mr. Vanderbilt on the street in the evening? This is also called direct evidence? That way, Mr. Butler is more suspicious, because he didn't know how much he had said to Mr. Vanderbilt. , I guess there have been disputes. More importantly, Mr. Vanderbilt's family was killed, but Mr. Butler and Mrs. Cook were all right.-If you reason like this, you two are also suspected!"

He Zhichu pointed his finger at Mr. Vanderbilt's housekeeper and cook. The two were frightened and shouted in unison: "No! We did not do it! You have no evidence!"

"You now know that I have no evidence? Mr. Butler, then you keep saying that my client murdered and set fire. Where is your direct evidence? I remember your transcript at the police station said that you did not see who did it. Because at that time you were already asleep."

He Zhichu squinted his eyes, raised his jaw slightly, and looked at the sweaty Mr. Butler indifferently. “According to Mr. Sheriff’s logical reasoning, no one has confirmed that you were sleeping at the time, so you are also suspected and suspected. Bigger. Because statistics show that 99% of these family murders are committed by insiders."

The housekeeper stared at He Chu with a dumbfounded look. He didn't understand how he suddenly became an important suspect from an important witness?!

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