It was not until Guan Wenji was taken out of the courtroom and the witness box was vacated again that Bud was shocked back to God at the sound of the judge's gavel.
The most favorable thing, the thing that would make the jury obedient on his side, was thus marked with suspicion. 42 hours of sleepless nights, if you go deeper, you will not only be in a simple state of being awake, how can you keep the suspect's eyes open when he is sleepy? How to stimulate him to continue talking when he is too tired? How to break down his psychological defense, and how to break his willpower
If there is a strong tongue and wisdom, it can even turn the 42 hours in the direction of extorting confessions by torture.
But the intern didn't, he just stopped at that boundary point as if he were having a friendly discussion.
Bud looked at the defense table for a long time. To be honest, if he was the opponent's lawyer, he would definitely use the topic to play it, and he would not finish the 42 hours without squeezing the value out. If you want to win the case, you must seize every opportunity to reverse and crucify the opponent.
Being able to nail once is once, after all, the winner in this industry is king.
This is the experience he has summed up after ten years of lawsuits... Of course, this can't be called experience, it's probably common sense in the eyes of most people.
In a trance, he glanced at the court unconsciously, and as a result, he met the eagle-like gaze of Brewer Manson, and immediately withdrew his gaze hurriedly. on the case.
Soon, a new witness was on the witness stand, and Budd had already stood up at the prompt of the judge and began to question him.
There were still people talking softly in the courtroom. Gu Yan didn't have to look back to hear it. It was from Brewer Manson's subordinates and assistants. The words that could be vaguely captured were exactly the same as lawyer Bard's doubts. Brewer Manson himself didn't respond and seemed remarkably silent.
For those doubts, Bud will ask now, but after ten years of experience with more cases, he probably won't ask again.
In this court, Gu Yan is the only one who can fully understand Yan Suizhi's actions, maybe the older judge.
Yan Suizhi said a long time ago that the members of the jury are not fools, they are people selected from all walks of life, representing all kinds of different groups of people, with different collisions of ideas. But in any case, one thing is certain, they must be people who have a certain sense of judgment and are considered to be impartial.
They don't need to preach, they don't need to force their minds, and even to a certain extent, these people are a little arrogant. Not everyone is eligible to sit on the jury to decide the freedom and life and death of a certain person, so they must be proud.
Proud people are not easy to be filled with thoughts, they will resist, reject, and even have a rebellious mentality.
So it's good to stop at the end, and the jury can also think of the extended meaning that Bud can think of.
What they think of themselves is always better than what others put them on.
Besides that, maybe there is another point...
That may not even be understood by the judges...
Yan Suizhi was looking at the prosecution seat, listening to Budd's questioning of the witness, and out of the corner of the eye, Gu Yan seemed to be looking at him.
"See what I'm doing?" Yan Suizhi suddenly asked softly.
Gu Yan: "..."
Some people have been in court for years and are really unruly.
Others are sitting upright, either carefully taking the time to read the case materials, or listening to the other's lawyers or witnesses. He can still interact with people from time to time, and he can't find it with a lantern.
Which intern dares to be such a jerk
Yan Suizhi felt that Gu Yan was silent for a moment, then looked away and ignored him again.
"???"
Standing on the witness stand at the moment is security officer Oster Dayne outside George Manson's bedroom.
Bud's inquiry has been carried out for the most part, "Did my client, Mr. George Manson, turn off the lights in the living room and other rooms before entering the bathroom that night?"
Dane nodded: "Yes, the whole outside is dark. In order to facilitate Mr. Manson's needs, we can hear the door open a little bit, but the lights in the corridor are very dim, so it still has no effect on the inside. , very dark."
Bud said, "You didn't hear anything suspicious until Mr. George Manson happened?"
Dane: "Of course, it's hard for us to hear too small a movement, but if someone bumps into something in the room, we will definitely find out, but unfortunately, no. This in itself is enough to explain some problems, after all, Manson Mister's room... um, a little too much."
Bud encouraged: "What do you mean by a little too much?"
"Mr. Manson's room is like this, there is a plush carpet between the windowsill and the bed, but there is no carpet from the bed to the bathroom, there are many things scattered here, wine bottles, wine glasses, clothing, belts, ties, car keys ?"
Dane felt outrageous when he said it himself, but after all, the Manson family was still there, so he had to restrain his tone.
Bud responded to his words and typed a few photos directly on the holographic screen. "This is the scene inside when Mr. Manson was found to be in an accident after the incident and the lights in the room were turned on."
The entire courtroom, including the sullen judge, had a blank expression for a second.
I have to say that the disturbing mess presented on the huge screen is quite shocking.
The corners of Brewer Manson's mouth moved, showing a mixture of disdain, disgust, and helplessness, but he quickly retracted it. And the assistant next to him has only one interjection—"Oh—"
Then he rubbed his eyes.
These are the most important pieces of information that Dane can provide, so Bud quickly completed the inquiry and let the jury know about these.
Judge Luther said, "Mr. Ruan Ye?"
Yan Suizhi was not in a hurry and said, "I don't have anything to ask."
Bud: "… "
I don't know why, but now that the intern opens his mouth, no matter what he says, Bud is full of resentment.
So he was angry with his forehead and invited the next witness, Zhao Zemu.
When Zhao Zemu stood on the witness stand, Gu Yan glanced at the back seat indifferently. Among the people who came to listen this time, the Manson family had the most people, and Zhao Zemu had the least people—none at all.
There were rumors before that the Zhao family was originally going to rely on the big tree of the Manson family, but something went wrong in the past two years, and the big tree became unstable. Some people speculate that it was because Zhao Zemu had a better relationship with George Manson, which made Brewer Manson unhappy.
It is difficult to tell whether the entanglement between the successors is true or false.
However, there was indeed a clue in the court. When Zhao Zemu entered the court, Brewer Manson kept his eyes on the photo of the holographic screen. He looked away slowly.
It seems that Zhao Zemu has no contempt for Zhao Zemu.
The reason why Zhao Zemu stood on the witness stand was very simple, because he had seen Chen Zhang's hand on the window sill during the time frame of Chen Zhang's crime.
"Did you grab the water pipe column by the wall like this?" Bud demonstrated a grasping action.
Zhao Zemu shook his head and changed his direction, "I caught it like this."
"How long have you been caught?"
"A few seconds, four or five seconds."
"Are you sure it was the defense's hand?" Bud asked.
Zhao Zemu said calmly: "Because there is a ring-shaped smartphone on the index finger of that hand, there is a circular section on the ring, and there are two conspicuous horizontal lines on the section. Of course, I only saw this, after the event. The police investigation confirmed that apart from Chen Zhang, no one in the villa had a smartphone like that."
Bud released the picture outside the window of the villa. As far as the structure is concerned, if Chen Zhang wants to go from the second floor windowsill to the first floor and try to keep his voice as low as possible, he really needs to grab the water pipe to slow down the force.
And that hand happened to appear within the time frame of Chen Zhang's possible crime.
Bud quickly finished asking questions, and the right to inquire was handed over to Yan Suizhi.
"Mr. Zhao." Yan Suizhi got up and greeted him.
Zhao Zemu was stunned for a moment. Maybe he knew who was defending Chen Zhang before, but he would still be a little stunned when he saw it in court, but he quickly put away his expression and nodded, "Hello."
"You saw my client Chen Zhang's hand by the window?"
"I said it just now, yes."
"How much is exposed?" Yan Suizhi asked.
Zhao Zemu was stunned for a moment, and then gestured on his hand again, half of his forearm, "So much, because I walked around and held the pillar like this, I can see part of the sleeves and wrists."
Yan Suizhi nodded, "I heard a sentence before, I don't know if I remember correctly. Mr. Zhao, do you have night blindness?"
"Yes." Zhao Zemu thought for a while, and even laughed at himself, "There is even a medical certificate for this."
The owners of the villa at the time were asked to do this identification.
"Night blindness..." Yan Suizhi repeated and asked, "Then how did you see the scene outside the window?"
Zhao Zemu replied calmly, "The light was still on in my room at that time, and the light was enough to allow me to see things near the window. The water pipe happened to be within range."
"See clearly?"
"Yes, very clear."
"Did you have any physical discomfort on your wrist that day, such as dizziness?" Yan Suizhi said, "If I remember correctly, you basically spent those two days in the bedroom to cultivate."
Zhao Zemu shook his head, "No, there was actually no physical discomfort at that time. After I stayed in the bedroom and couldn't go out just for diving, I was a little scared, and I was in a bad mood for fear of affecting other people."
Yan Suizhi asked again, "There was a party in the villa that night. Did you drink?"
"You mean when you see the hand?" Zhao Zemu shook his head, "No, I didn't touch a drop of alcohol before going downstairs to participate in the party. In fact, I didn't drink after going downstairs. Joe asked me to give me juice. ."
"So you were very awake all night and didn't have any discomfort like dizziness that interfered with what you were seeing?"
"right."
Zhao Zemu said it very firmly.
Yan Suizhi nodded, and then replayed the video that Bud used just now.
That was a video taken by Laura at that time. At that time, Gu Yan and Yan Suizhi had already boarded the shuttle for the return journey. At that time, Gu Yan showed Yan Suizhi the video when he received this video. Laura recorded the video at the time and never opened it except to send them a copy. Originally planned to wait for the party to end and send it to everyone, but it happened to Manson that night. This video was directly recorded by the police and was never seen by others. It was only now put into court as auxiliary evidence.
Yan Suizhi directly pulled the progress bar to a certain point in the second half of the video. In the video, Zhao Zemu was just tricked by Glenn and the others from upstairs, followed by Chen Zhang. After the two reached the hall, they found a corner. sit down.
Chen Zhang was quickly pulled over by another group of people to talk about diving. He could hear a vague question in the video about how to save oneself in an underwater accident. Maybe he was also frightened by the diving accident at that time.
On the other side, Zhao Zemu always sat in that corner and watched everyone make trouble.
This scene happened in a corner of the huge video, and because the other parts of the screen were still dancing wildly, the noise was so distracting that this corner was easily overlooked.
Yan Suizhi simply enlarged the video so that what happened in this corner could fill the entire holographic screen.
Everyone in the courtroom could clearly see that the waiter arranged by Qiao looked into the mirror with a disc with a few cups of drinks on it. He stopped in front of Zhao Zemu one step left and right, then bent over and asked with a smile. : "What to drink? Master Qiao asked me not to bring wine, there are pear juice, apple juice and... "
The voice was drowned out by the laughter in the background, but it could be seen from Zhao Zemu's mouth that he asked for apple juice.
Then, a strange scene appeared.
When the waiter handed the cup over, Zhao Zemu reached out and grabbed the empty one—
His hand clenched two or three centimeters away from the cup.
The waiter was obviously stunned, then Zhao Zemu rubbed his forehead, smiled and said something to the waiter, looking a little apologetic.
The waiter shook his head again and said something like "it's okay".
This time, Zhao Zemu stretched out his hand very slowly, and when he was approaching the cup, his fingers hesitated a little, as if he was fumbling and hesitating, and then he stretched forward a little bit.
The waiter may have been a little embarrassed, and put the cup directly into his hand.
Yan Suizhi replayed this episode three times, and then asked Zhao Zemu, "You just said with certainty that you were in good condition all night, no drinking, no dizziness, and no symptoms that would affect what you see... "
"So, how should this passage be explained?"