my wife is a consul

Chapter 24

Third Division of the Ninth Circuit.

Li Guan looked at Lu Ming who was sitting as the first defender in the dock, and the old lady's eyes were full of reproach.

Lu Ming could only pretend he couldn't see it.

On Lu Ming's left, sat the second defender, who was tall and tall from the city - hot weather.

He is a handsome man in his 40s, with a big back and shiny hair, a black short windbreaker, and a double lion brand gold watch. He is a successful person.

He didn't look very good, he ignored Lu Ming's answers, and it was a great humiliation for him to be robbed of the position of the main defense by a rookie lawyer.

But Liu Laocai, the client, made such a request, and he couldn't help it. He just sat there sullenly, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

At this time, Liu Keyue stepped onto the witness stand.

That is Liu Laocai's eldest son, the "little third son" in his mouth.

Liu Keyue's face was somewhat similar to Liu Laocai's, with a round face and small eyes, and looked towards her father from time to time, feeling a little uneasy.

The other prosecutor had just stood up, and Lu Ming stood up again, "I reiterate that the defense opposes the prosecution calling Liu Keyue as a witness. If Liu Keyue is suspected of illegal behavior, he should be prosecuted by the prosecution. I will be happy to defend Mr. Liu Keyue lawyer……"

Li Guan waved his hand and looked at the jury, "The statement of the new witness is closely related to this case, so you should listen carefully!"

Lu Ming shook his head and sat down.

A smug smile appeared on the face of the prosecutor in the dark blue uniform opposite.

He was a 27-year-old young man named Hou Dexing, very handsome and handsome, which made Lu Ming a little dazed, as if he had seen another Li Mingxuan.

Unlike the four provinces in the Northern Territory, in the East China Sea, there are already independent prosecutors and the Grand Prosecutor's Office directly under the municipal committee.

Prosecutors are used to directly prosecute criminal cases. Of course, sometimes when encountering important cases, the procuratorial department will also hire powerful independent lawyers as representatives of the prosecution.

Prosecutors, there is no grade point, the Supreme Prosecutor's Office has another system for evaluating their work ability.

When it comes to prosecutors' cases, the defense lawyers have 10 assessment points for winning or losing.

But this Hou Dexing has a high winning rate in the Beiguan Procuratorate Branch, and is a rising star prosecutor in the Beiguan Procuratorate Branch.

He slowly walked to Liu Keyue's witness stand, "Mr. Liu Keyue, Ms. Deng Hongmei reported to me that you had private contact with her several times. Is this true? Many people have seen you together. If you lie, yes You are no good to your father."

Liu Keyue's small round face looked very unnatural, she looked in the direction of her father Liu Laocai, and said, "I, I just hope, well, she is still an employee of our new era after all, I want to see if she needs help of."

"So, you are willing to pay a huge sum of 3000 yuan just to help her?" Hou Dexing asked calmly.

"Yes, yes..." Liu Keyue nodded hastily.

"Didn't your father, the defendant Liu Gaoyu instruct you to do this?"

"No, really not!" Liu Keyue looked at the jury, "It's really not what my father asked me to do..."

Lu Ming watched his behavior, leaned back slightly, looked at him carefully, and then turned his head to look at the hot day beside him.

"It wasn't your father who asked you to do it. So, you feel that Ms. Deng Hongmei is very pitiful, so you sent a huge sum of 3000 yuan? Then can I think that you feel that what Deng Hongmei said is true, you are pitiful She, wanting to make up for your father's faults, you think she was violated, right? In this way, your behavior can be explained."

Hou Dexing's voice was stern, and he asked one question after another like beans poured out of a bamboo tube. Lu Ming stood up abruptly.

"Objection! Objection to the imaginary question of the prosecution!"

"Against the prosecution asking multiple questions at the same time!"

"be opposed to!"

Hou Dexing didn't care about Lu Ming's series of objections, nor Li Guan's voice of "objection is effective".

Staring at Liu Keyue, "You do think she is a victim, don't you?"

Then he turned around and bowed slightly to Li Guan, "Your Honor, I'm done asking!" Returning to the plaintiff's seat, he smiled provocatively at Lu Ming.

Liu Keyue's face was pale, and she almost collapsed on the witness stand, just looking at her father in fear.

Liu Laocai's face was ashen, watching the jury in an uproar, whispering to each other.

He knew it was over for him.

My own son is simply more than successful than failure.

What could convince a jury that they had found the truth more than the accusation in the son's subconscious?

The suspect's son believed that the other party was the victim and went to make amends. So, can the suspect still be wronged?

In the courtroom, everyone's eyes were on Lu Ming at this time. The defendant's newly hired chief defender was heard to be a rookie lawyer, but Liu Laocai was not an ordinary person. This young lawyer seemed to have something extraordinary.

Lu Ming frowned thinking about something.

"Defendant's lawyer! It's your turn!" Li Guan looked at Lu Ming with an unfriendly look.

Female judges, even this weird old lady, hate crimes like sexual assault the most.

Lu Ming stood up slowly. At this moment, the door of the court was pushed open. Pamela, who was wearing a black professional dress and had a curvy breasts and buttocks, walked in. Her long black silk legs immediately attracted everyone's attention. The eyes of most men.

She came to Lu Ming's side, and handed a piece of paper to Lu Ming. Lu Ming looked at it, stuffed it into his pocket, looked at Liu Keyue, and then turned back to look at Fu Wenwen, with a mysterious smile on his face.

Pamela walked over to the auditorium and sat down, but it still caused many men to look at her secretly.

Lu Ming slowly walked up to Liu Keyue, "Your father did not instruct you to hand over the 3000 yuan check to Ms. Deng Hongmei, did he?"

"Yes!" It was the friendly lawyer of her own side, Liu Keyue regained her composure and answered quickly.

"Besides, since your authority to write checks is only up to 2000 yuan, you can only pay 1500 yuan in two installments, so that you can hide it from your father, right?"

"Yes!" Liu Keyue nodded again hastily.

"Ms. Deng Hongmei didn't accept this money either, did she?"

"Yes!"

"So, where did this money go now? Is it still in your account?" Lu Ming asked casually.

"..., yes!" Liu Keyue nodded hurriedly.

"You and lawyer Gao Wentian, the one sitting on the defense bench, your father's current second defender, who used to be your father's chief defender, what is your relationship with him?" Lu Ming pointed to Gao Wentian.

Hot Tian frowned, leaned forward, and stared at Lu Ming with vigilance in his eyes.

"It's okay..." Liu Keyue looked at Lu Ming in confusion.

"Did you know each other before?" Lu Ming asked.

Hou Dexing, who was sitting in the prosecutor's seat, frowned, and was about to stand up when Li Guan had already said, "Defense attorney, you don't have much time, get to the point quickly."

"Did you and lawyer Gao Wentian know each other before?" Lu Ming continued the original question, and then said to Li Guan: "Your Honor, my question is very important."

Liu Laocai looked at this scene suspiciously, and then turned his head to look at Gao Gaotian. He and Gao Gaotian were sitting behind the same long table. This long wooden table was the dock.

On a hot day, the deputy debater was separated from Liu Laocai by an empty chair, and that empty chair was the seat of the main debater, Lu Ming.

Gao Rentian stared at Lu Ming's every move, frowning even tighter.

"I don't know..." After hesitating for a while, Liu Keyue answered cautiously.

"Oh, you didn't know each other before... Then, you didn't pay the legal fees for your father's hiring of Gao Wentian's lawyer, did you?"

"Yes, I didn't pay..." Looking at Lu Ming's clear eyes, Liu Keyue's expression suddenly changed.

"Then, my clerk found out that you paid into lawyer Gao Wentian's account several times. Why?!" Lu Ming took out the piece of paper in his pocket and shook it in front of Liu Keyue. Text, and some numbers.

Liu Keyue's face immediately turned pale, and she looked towards the hot sky as if asking for help.

On a hot day, he suddenly stood up, "Lu Ming, what do you mean? Don't talk nonsense, he entrusted me with a case, which involves the privacy regulations of the parties involved, and what does it have to do with this case?"

Liu Keyue immediately said in a hurry: "Yes, I want to ask Gao Wentian's lawyer to file a lawsuit for me."

"So, what kind of lawsuit is it that requires several thousand yuan in advance?" Lu Ming was still so calm.

Liu Keyue froze, her face was pale, her small eyes rolled around, and she seemed to be thinking desperately, but it seemed that she couldn't think of any answer for a while.

"As I said, it has nothing to do with this case, and it also involves the entrusted confidentiality agreement between me and Mr. Liu Keyue!" Gao Wentian said loudly.

Pamela, who was sitting in the auditorium, looked helplessly at the scene in front of her.

It's just a piece of paper with messy content printed on it, which makes the court jump.

He glanced at Lu Ming again, his slightly thin body, but when he stood in court, he was so confident and stalwart, as if he would never be defeated, giving people a very solid feeling.

She vaguely guessed what Lu Ming was doing, because she followed Lu Ming from the beginning to the end of this case.

At this moment, Lu Ming glanced at the high temperature sky, then at Liu Keyue, and felt ashamed, sure enough, a Western assistant would be beneficial.

They all thought that the piece of paper was the transfer record printed out by the bank.

As a Western affairs officer, he is naturally sociable and has good hands and eyes. It is not difficult to print out the transfer records from the bank.

Liu Keyue didn't know a few Western languages, and she couldn't hold her breath. She panicked when she was frightened.

This guy is the same as himself. Although he seems to have a degree, he is not interested in learning Western languages. Most of the time, Western languages ​​​​are not used in the Central Continent gathering area, because the empire belongs to the Federation, and there are four official languages. kind.

On the contrary, some Western traditional aristocratic families living in the indigenous areas will master the local linguistics of the four official languages. For example, some traditional aristocratic families living in the East China Sea, because the population of Central China occupies an absolute majority, so Chinese is a compulsory course. Pamela is very fluent in Chinese.

On the contrary, the upstart families in the aboriginal areas or many ordinary Westerners are usually very proud and never willing to learn other languages. If you want to communicate with them, you must understand Western languages ​​to be qualified. As for the core area of ​​the empire, which is the real Westerner gathering area in the southwest , and no other languages ​​exist.

Therefore, if you want to enter the real upper class of the empire, you must not understand Western languages.

Gao Wentian, as an aspiring lawyer and professional, thinks Western language is good, but the distance is too far, and he can't read the contents of the paper clearly. Seeing Liu Keyue's panic, he thought that what Liu Keyue saw was an accurate transfer record.

That's why it was assumed that Liu Keyue's transfer of money to him had been revealed.

It can only be said that accepting a certain entrusted lawsuit from Liu Keyue is an admission that he has received Liu Keyue's remittance.

In this way, his tricks successfully achieved his goal.

However, if I have enough contacts, it is better to have real evidence, and I don't have to cheat Liu Keyue vaguely like "a few thousand yuan".

To be a lawyer, you really need to make a lot of friends and investigate some things, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort.

But I have just started here, and there is nothing I can do.

Even just ten days ago, I still wanted to be an ostrich, but I didn't want to. After two cases in succession, I was afraid that I would become famous in the circle of lawyers in Beiguan.

Fortunately, at most it is a small circle of lawyers, or a small satellite town of Beiguan.

"Okay, I take back the question just now." Lu Ming smiled at the extremely angry hot weather.

Looking at Liu Keyue again: "Mr. Liu Keyue, if my client Liu Gaoyu is convicted, will you take over the position of chairman of the board of directors of New Era Company?"

Originally, he snorted coldly in the hot weather, just sat down, and then stood up again immediately.

But before he could speak, Hou Dexing, the chief prosecutor of the prosecution seat, suddenly stood up, "Objection, Your Honor, the defense is starting to tell a story!"

Originally, Hou Dexing was full of sarcasm, thinking that this rookie lawyer was baffled and didn't know what he wanted to do.

But now, he finally understood the other party's intentions, and was going to make up a story about the suspect's son colluding with the suspect's defense lawyer to frame the suspect.

In Lu Ming's world, the story of the crown prince being unable to hold back for 30 years and wanting to seize his heir and frame his father is familiar to many people. Even if there are similar stories in this world, they are dark legends, not popular literary works.

"The objection is valid!" Li Guan waved his hand.

"Your Honor, I have no problem!" Lu Ming bowed slightly.

There was no need for Liu Keyue to really answer these questions, it only needed that the jury had doubts in their minds.

At this time, as expected, the jurors looked at Liu Keyue and Gao Gaotian, and they were all whispering.

Hou Dexing frowned watching this scene.

Liu Keyue took out a handkerchief, wiped the cold sweat on her brow and stepped off the witness stand. Looking at her father with livid face, she bowed her head and walked quickly outside the court.

"In court, I request the summoning of witness No. [-], Ms. Deng Hongmei!" Lu Ming bowed slightly to Li Guan.

Deng Hongmei was sitting at the plaintiff's seat in the prosecution's seat. She was a young woman in her early twenties, wearing a light blue dress, she looked very pretty, and a faint beauty mole on her snow-white cheek added a bit of charm to her.

However, at this moment, like a frightened rabbit, she sat on the witness stand with her head down and said nothing.

"In court, I hope that Ms. Deng Hongmei will testify in court for the last time. She has been under a lot of mental pressure, and I hope the court will be sympathetic!" Appear convincing.

"I believe that today should be the last time for Ms. Deng to testify in court!" Lu Ming slightly gestured to the judge's bench.

Li Guan nodded, "Ms. Deng Hongmei, please enter the witness stand to testify."

Deng Hongmei walked slowly onto the witness stand, looking like a frightened little rabbit, which made people feel sympathetic immediately.

Walking in front of Deng Hongmei, Lu Ming sighed softly, "Diabetes patients suffer a lot, don't they?" Diabetes, the scientific name of diabetes, is a common name for diabetes among the people.

Deng Hongmei immediately raised her head in panic, and looked at Lu Ming in disbelief.

Lu Ming shook his head, "Tolbutamide is not a panacea. Although it claims to be the first artificially synthesized sulfonylurea hypoglycemic drug, the medical community cheers that diabetes, or diabetes, will finally become history, but in fact , Diabetes is difficult to cure, and soon the medical community will be crying! I think you already have a deep understanding of this."

Deng Hongmei's body gradually trembled, and she said in a trembling voice, "Really? Lawyer Lu?"

"Yes." Lu Ming nodded to Deng Hongmei, and said, "I understand what you did, I hope you can understand what you are doing!"

Looking at Deng Hongmei, Lu Ming showed a trace of pity in his eyes, and turned to look at Li Guan, "Your court, I have no problem!"

Everyone is inexplicable.

Deng Hongmei looked at Lu Ming in disbelief.

Li Guan also stared at Lu Ming with some surprise, then looked at the wall clock, picked up the gavel and knocked it down, "Adjourn the court! If both parties have no new evidence to provide, the prosecution and defense will make closing statements tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)