Golden Years in the World of Film and Television

"Come up yourself, Sister Liu will arrange a room for you, bye!" After saying that, Han Tao hung up the phone.

"Brother Han, aren't you going to accompany us and Sister Fan back to our hometown? Why are you bringing a woman with you?"

Qiu Yingying and Guan Juer were watching TV in the karaoke bar. When they heard the woman's voice on Han Tao's phone, they asked curiously.

Guan Juer also looked at him nervously. Her whole mind was now on Han Tao, and she was afraid that he would say something she couldn't accept.

"What are you thinking about? The sister of one of my partners is related to a case I'm working on, so we have to go on a business trip to Nantong together."

Han Tao briefly explained, then gently patted the back of Guan Juer's hand, "It's getting late, Xiao Qiu, go to bed early, you have to get up early to pick someone up from the hospital tomorrow."

"Well, then Brother Han should also go to bed early!"

Guan Juer nodded. Although she was still a little worried, she went back to the guest room with Qiu Yingying.

"Ding dong~"

At this moment, Han Tao suddenly received a message. He opened it and saw that it was from his brother He Han: "Go home quickly after finishing your business in Nantong tomorrow. The old man wants you to go see him."

"Got it, Brother Han!"

Seeing the message, Han Tao replied with a wry smile, then said a few words to the nanny Sister Liu and went back to his room, still muttering to himself.

"How long has it been since Grandpa lost his temper? It's been years. It looks like something serious has happened!"

Sitting on the bed and thinking about it, Han Tao knew that he couldn't avoid it, so he called Sister Xiao Ai again, then washed up and went to bed.

It was impossible for Jiang Lai, a young lady, to be left out in the cold. Under Han Tao's instructions, Sister Liu went downstairs to pick her up, arranged a guest room for her, and then went back to rest.

Seeing that Han Tao really didn't care about her, Jiang Lai didn't think much about it. Surprisingly, she didn't make a fuss or noise, but lived in quietly.

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The next morning, at the hospital entrance, Han Tao, Guan Juer and the others met up with Fan Shengmei and the other two. The medical staff had already placed Fan's father steadily in an ambulance.

After Fan Shengmei and her mother Liu Meilan loaded some scattered daily necessities into the commercial vehicle at the back, they walked up to Han Tao and the others and said:

"Han Tao, Andy, thank you all for helping me so much..."

She knew very well that it was Han Tao and Andy who had been helping her recently, otherwise her father might have died, and she would not have been able to make the decision to change her relationship with her family.

"Nothing, you're welcome." Han Tao said with a smile.

Andy also shook his head. "Sister Fan, we are neighbors and friends. Don't be polite. Let's go!"

"Yes, yes, Sister Fan, what are you talking about? Your matter is the matter of our twenty-second floor."

After hearing what Qiu Yingying and Andy said, Guan Juer also said, "Sister Fan, we are all family, no need to thank me, just go and accompany uncle."

Seeing that they were talking endlessly, Qu Xiaoxiao reminded them, "Stop chatting, everyone. Hurry up and get to the place. It's getting late. I also want to take advantage of the time to visit Sister Fan and Lawyer Han's hometown!"

"Okay, be careful." Fan Shengmei nodded and ran back to the ambulance.

Qu Xiaoxiao and others also got on the last car, which was Han Tao's car today, a nanny car.

Originally he was planning to take the original Pullman back, but after receiving a message from He Han yesterday, he decided to use this car instead, otherwise he would be scolded by his grandfather for being too high-profile.

Andy didn't drive today and also chose to go with Han Tao's car. Only Jiang Lai was sulking in his own car.

This brings us to the expression on her face when she saw Qu Xiaoxiao in the morning. It was so interesting. What she feared came true. She almost rolled her eyes out.

And Qu Xiaoxiao, the busybody, did not let her go. On the way to the hospital, she ran to Jiang Lai's car and talked all the way, and even posted on her Moments.

After seeing that everything that needed to be explained had been explained and everyone else had gotten in the car and fastened their seat belts, the driver started the car in the lead, the ambulance in the middle, and Jiang Lai's car following at the end, and the three cars drove onto the highway.

On the way, Han Tao was looking at the computer and answering the phone, while several girls were chattering and laughing. The topic also turned from daily life to Fan Shengmei's affairs, and then they gave all kinds of suggestions.

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Chapter 708: Counterattack

In the car, Qu Xiaoxiao and Andy were talking when Qu Xiaoxiao's phone rang. She sighed impatiently and quickly said to Han Tao:

"Brother Han, my mom is urging me to go back and meet new friends. I told her that I'll be with you these two days. Can you answer the phone for me?"

Having said that, without caring whether Han Tao was willing or not, he directly connected the phone and put it in front of Han Tao.

"Hello, Auntie, I'm Han Tao..."

Seeing her unconventional routine, Han Tao could only tell Qu Xiaoxiao's mother that he was going to Nantong to do some work, and Qu Xiaoxiao followed him to see a new project.

Originally, Qu Xiaoxiao's mother arranged a blind date for her, but when she heard that she was with Han Tao, she didn't mention it.

She also said that she and Qu's father really hope that their daughter can learn a lot from Han Tao. She has made a lot of progress recently. After working with Han Tao, she even runs the company very well. She also said that she wants to invite Han Tao and the neighbors to dinner.

Qu Xiaoxiao heard her mother getting more and more excited and didn't want her to continue, so she hung up the phone after saying a few perfunctory words.

"I shouldn't have answered her calls. It's so annoying. They always try to interfere in my life. If we have to eat, we should eat together. There's no point in eating with them."

Hearing her words, Qiu Yingying nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes, yes, if we want to eat, it's for us to eat alone. Don't call the parents, otherwise they will nag us endlessly and our ears will be callused."

"Me too, I don't like eating with my elders either, it's so awkward."

Seeing Guan Juer say this, Andy couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you want to have dinner with your family?"

"You have never spent a seven-day vacation with your family. If you have, you will know that it is simply torture."

"Me too. I missed them so much when I first came to Shanghai, but after returning home, I wanted to come back within a few days."

Andy listened to them talking about going home and felt a little emotional. "I'm an orphan, I really haven't experienced that!"

Andy's words made the three girls silent. Qu Xiaoxiao was the quickest to respond, saying that Andy was the Monkey King who jumped out of a stone, so she was so powerful, and she also said that she was always welcome to stay at her home.

Qiu Yingying and Guan Juer also said that Andy could visit their homes every year to experience different feelings, saying that they are all a family.

Andy felt everyone's genuine emotions and said with a smile, "Thank you. I thought I only had Lao Tan as a friend in this life, but I didn't expect to meet you."

"Me too, I never thought I'd meet a pretty, rich, white lady or a tall, rich, handsome man in my life!"

"Me too, I didn't expect to meet you all!"

Listening to what the girls said, Han Tao just smiled and did not join in their conversation.

At this time, he was completely attracted by a piece of news: "The first-instance verdict of the sister-insulting and murder case has concluded, the person involved has been sentenced to death, and the defense lawyer shed tears in the court."

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Looking at the information and case reports on the computer, Han Tao was in deep thought. This case gave him a sense of déjà vu, a bit like the "insulting mother and murder case" in his previous life, except that the details were a little different.

The defendant in this case is Chen Guowei, 23 years old this year. He was born in the countryside and has a sister who is three years younger than him. His father died when he was very young, and it was his mother, who had some disabilities in her legs and feet, who raised him and his sister.

Chen Guowei was also quite ambitious and was admitted to a key provincial university. His mother worked several odd jobs and went out to pick up scraps at night. His sister also dropped out of school early and worked in a factory, all to support his studies.

This year, Chen Guowei is going to study for a master's degree, and his supervisor has recommended him to study for a master's and doctoral degree, and he has also received a scholarship.

Just when things seemed to be getting better for the family, a bolt from the blue struck them: the mother fell ill six months ago due to malnutrition and long-term physical exhaustion from overwork.

However, in order not to worry him, Chen's mother and Chen Guowei's sister concealed his illness and did not tell him.

However, the burden of the family fell on his sister alone, so in order to reduce the burden on her daughter, Chen's mother refused hospitalization and continued to work in the restaurant where she worked.

Chen Guowei's sister Chen Le was very distressed when she saw her mother refusing to go to the hospital.

In order to treat her mother's illness, she did her best to raise money. In order to earn extra income, she set up a stall to sell snacks at the night market after get off work.

But Chen Le didn't know that a group of moneylenders and gangsters had set their sights on her because of her beautiful looks.

Just when Chen's mother fainted again and was hospitalized and urgently needed medical expenses, they lent Chen Le 100,000 yuan in the name of loan.

Because the other party had planned it in advance, when Chen's mother was discharged from the hospital, this group of people found Chen Le and began to demand high interest.

It was not until this time that Chen's mother realized that her daughter had borrowed high-interest loans for her, and that she only received 90,000 yuan out of the 100,000 yuan principal. She thought she only had to pay back 100,000 yuan, but she did not expect that she would have to repay 130,000 yuan.

Although they knew that this was loan sharking, the other party was powerful and the mother and daughter were weak and alone, so they had no choice but to pay the interest.

But all their income is not enough to pay the monthly interest, and they will never be able to pay back the principal. Moreover, the interest on this money will only increase.

Just when they were overwhelmed, the boss of the loan shark gang showed his fangs and proposed that as long as Chen Le accompanied him for one night every week, part of the interest could be offset.

Of course Chen's mother and Chen Le refused, so the group used Chen Guowei as a threat. They proposed to go to Chen Guowei's school to ask for money, get Chen Guowei expelled, and threatened to cut off Chen Guowei's influence, forcing Chen Le to submit.

Because of this situation, Chen's mother felt very guilty and thought she had implicated her children. She even almost committed suicide. Fortunately, she was sent to the hospital by her neighbors and was saved.

In order to prevent their harassment, Chen's mother raised two dogs, thinking that they could warn and stop others from doing bad things at night.

But she was too naive. This trick didn't work and angered several people. In the end, the dog was beaten to death and eaten by several debt collectors.

On this day, Chen Guowei went home to see his mother and heard some things from his neighbors. It happened that the boss brought a group of people to his house to look for Chen Le, and the two sides had a conflict after a disagreement.

But Chen Guowei, a college student who devoted all his attention to studying, was no match for those guys. He was knocked down in a few moves and even tied up at the door, where he had to listen to his sister being harmed by that guy in the room.

Chen Guowei struggled for half an hour, as if he didn't feel the injuries on his body, but he still couldn't break free from the chains.

It was not until the boss of the loan shark company came out that sister Chen Le ran out of the house in dishevel and let him go with tears in her eyes.

Seeing his sister's miserable condition and her lifeless eyes, Chen Guowei rushed forward desperately and started fighting with the opponent again. Even though he was knocked to the ground many times, he did not give up the resistance.

During the conflict, the extremely angry Chen Guowei stabbed the leader of the loan shark gang, Feng Shouyi, to death on the spot, and also stabbed the two younger brothers he brought with him.

There is a controversial point here. According to the confession of the plaintiff, that is, Feng Shouyi's family and younger brother, it was Chen Guowei who killed Feng Shouyi with the knife he brought back.

According to the confession of the defendant Chen Guowei, it was when he rushed forward for the last time that the loan shark gang leader Feng Shouyi pulled out a knife, but he did not stab himself and the knife fell to the ground.

As a result, in a panic, Chen Guowei picked up the knife, killed the loan shark gang leader Feng Shouyi, and stabbed his two younger brothers, so it was not the knife he brought.

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Chapter 709: Counterattack (2)

Unfortunately, there is no evidence to support what Chen Guowei said, which cannot prove that he was telling the truth.

There were only a few witnesses in this case, and they all pointed out that he had killed people with a knife. Except for his sister Chen Le, no one could prove his innocence.

The most important thing is that after the police arrived at the scene, they did not find the knife, so they could not extract Feng Shouyi's fingerprints, let alone prove that the knife belonged to Feng Shouyi.

However, it is a fact that Chen Guowei stabbed Feng Shouyi to death. Even if the murder weapon has not been found, in the process of convicting a criminal case, the murder weapon is one of the important physical evidences, but it is not a necessary condition for conviction.

The key to conviction in a criminal case lies in the integrity of the chain of evidence and mutual corroboration to ensure that the facts of the case are clear and the evidence is sufficient.

Such evidence may include physical evidence, documentary evidence, witness testimony, victim statements, confessions and defenses of suspects, expert opinions, and records of investigations, examinations, identifications, and investigative experiments.

Therefore, even if the knife was not found, the other evidence has formed a complete chain of evidence, which is the fact that Chen Guowei committed murder.

In the end, the prosecution directly charged him with intentional homicide, and the first-instance verdict was that Chen Guowei was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.

After the trial and the verdict, Chen Guowei's mother collapsed to the ground, looking at her son with tears on her face, her mouth wide open, and for a moment she was speechless and unable to utter anything.

Sister Chen Le squatted beside her mother, crying. If she hadn't been afraid that she would die and her mother would have no one to take care of her, she would have drunk the pesticide she had bought long ago.

Chen Guowei, who had a bright future, also knelt in the courtroom in handcuffs, kowtowed in the direction of his mother and sister, and said:

"The son is unfilial, not waiting to provide for his mother until her death. He said he was not a good brother and failed to protect his sister."

Cheng Wenjing, the lawyer who defended Chen Guowei, actually has some connection with Han Tao. She is a senior of his apprentice Luo Yun. The two have a good relationship and she often shares experiences with Luo Yun.

Luo Yun also respected this senior student very much, because Cheng Wenjing had been engaged in public interest litigation since graduation and was considered a well-known lawyer in the local area.

According to Luo Yun, Cheng Wenjing argued with the judge for a long time that day, but the verdict had already been made and her efforts were in vain.

After seeking help from many sources without success, Cheng Wenjing thought of his junior sister Luo Yun. He knew that his junior sister was now a salaried lawyer in a top law firm and had a master behind her, so he thought of asking her for help.

"Oh, Chen Wenjing is too greedy!" After reading the entire process of the case and the information provided by Luo Yun, Han Tao fell into deep thought.

In the case of Chen Guowei, in addition to the insult to Chen Guowei's sister, according to the confession, there are some shadows of the Lijiang revenge killing case and the Kunshan Long Ge revenge killing case.

Han Tao does intend to take over this case. Cheng Wenjing is also a good talent. She has a nickname in the local area called the Justice Lawyer. Most of the lawsuits she has handled are free of charge. She is very suitable for the public welfare department of Mingtang Law Firm.

Now the Public Welfare Department of Mingtang Law Firm is led by Chen Ran’s senior. Although some lawyers were assigned there later, there is still a need for some lawyers dedicated to public interest litigation and legal aid.

Although this is a department that has no profit and even costs money, Han Tao must pay attention to it.

You should know that legal aid has many benefits for law firms and lawyers, including expanding case sources and business scope.

It can also improve the professional quality and social responsibility of lawyers in law firms, enhance social influence and credibility, convert potential case sources, and comply with the professional ethics requirements of lawyers, etc.

After Chen Guowei's case came out, Chen's mother and Chen Le had no money to hire a lawyer, and the court's public lawyers had limited skills, so Cheng Wenjing's proactive assistance was a life-saving straw for the mother and daughter.

After reading the information, Han Tao knew that Chen Wenjing did have a certain level of ability, but she made a mistake in this case, which was that she was too greedy.

In Chen Guowei's case, if she had just argued for excessive self-defense, there would have been no problem, but she was defending her innocence, not seeking a reduced sentence.

Although she listed the crimes committed by Feng Shouyi's side involving gangs to prove that Chen Guowei's side retaliated after being oppressed, it was self-defense.

However, the defense of innocence places great emphasis on evidence, especially when suing against the prosecution. The most troublesome thing is to have complete evidence. Even if there is a problem in a small link, it will be difficult to win the case.