Luo Jialan became more confident and sat up straighter.
At this time, the heavy door of Courtroom No. 1 closed silently.
It's time for the trial.
The judge knocked his gavel and solemnly announced: "The trial of the prosecutor's office charging Luo Jialan with intentional homicide has officially begun. Now let's check the identities of the plaintiff and defendant."
Because it was a serious crime, identity verification was necessary in court. In addition to fingerprints and irises, each other's blood was taken for DNA verification.
The latter takes a longer time to wait, but it is also one of the pieces of evidence that must be archived.
The court nurse came over and took a drop of blood from each of Luo Jialan and Song Jinning and put it in a small test tube.
"The fingerprints match, the irises match, and the DNA test results will be announced in a few days. Now I announce that the trial has begun. Prosecutor, you will start your brief introduction."
The judge looked at the inspection report that was submitted, signed his name, and asked the prosecutor to briefly describe the case.
The prosecutor sat with Gu Nianzhi and Song Jinning, but he sat on the far left, Song Jinning sat in the middle, and Gu Nianzhi sat on the far right.
When the judge asked the prosecutor to stand up and briefly state the case, he stood up calmly.
"Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen in the court, hello. I am the prosecutor from the Procuratorate charging Luo Jialan with intentional homicide."
"The defendant, Ms. Luo Jialan, is accused of attempting to harm Ms. Song Jinning to death while taking care of her, who was unconscious due to serious injuries, in the past ten years."
"The defendant Luo Jialan had motives and actions, so our court filed a case to prosecute, accusing Luo Jialan of committing intentional homicide against Ms. Song Jinning."
After the prosecutor made a brief statement, the judge looked at Luo Jialan and Cai Shengnan in the dock and said, "Two of you, do you agree with the prosecutor's accusation?"
Of course they disagreed. This was just a question asked by the judge in accordance with procedure.
Cai Shengnan stood up calmly, with a decent smile on his face, and said: "Your honor, we disagree with the prosecutor's accusation. As the lawyer representing Ms. Luo Jialan, I want to defend Ms. Luo Jialan's innocence."
The judge nodded, asked her to sit down, looked at the plaintiff's bench, and asked: "Prosecutor, what do you have to say?"
The prosecutor is a public official of the Procuratorate, but in this case, their Procuratorate has sent its own prosecution lawyer, Gu Nianzhi.
Therefore, the prosecutor will not argue directly with the defendant.
He stood up and said, "Our court has entrusted the prosecution lawyer's accusations in this case to the plaintiff's lawyer, Ms. Gu Nianzhi, and we ask the court for permission."
The judge looked at Gu Nianzhi's information and nodded in agreement, "The prosecution lawyer please make a statement."
Gu Nianzhi also stood up, nodded politely to the people in the court, and said: "On behalf of the procuratorate and the plaintiff, Ms. Song Jinning, I accuse the defendant Luo Jialan of deliberately and deliberately causing severe trauma to a person's brain over the past ten years, so that Ms. Song Jinning, who was mentally disturbed and completely incapable of acting on her own, intended to commit murder."
Luo Jialan glanced sideways at Song Jinning, who was sitting upright and charming, and felt disdain from the bottom of her heart.
In fact, it was really difficult for her to take Song Jinning seriously.
Although Song Jinning has recovered, for Luo Jialan, in the past ten years, Song Jinning has been the crazy and stupid person who thought that he would always be eighteen years old and let her round and squash him.
In the past ten years, what she has seen is the alienation of Song Jinning's husband Huo Guanchen. Although they live under the same roof, he ignores Song Jinning and deliberately indulges himself in torturing Song Jinning.
Huo Shaoheng, Song Jinning's son, even left. He returned home only a handful of times in the past ten years.
In the past seven years, except for last Christmas, I have not been back home once.
Why does she think Huo Shaoheng takes Song Jinning's mother seriously
Although in Bai Jinyi's case at the beginning of last year, Luo Jialan also understood Huo Shaoheng's ten years of planning, defeating the enemy with one move, and finally sending Bai Jinyi to prison, she still stubbornly believed that Huo Shaoheng did this to give her mother Luo Xin Xue seeks justice, and Song Jinning can also benefit from it, that's by the way.
So until she sat in the dock in the court, Luo Jialan was still a little unbelievable.
She glanced at Gu Nianzhi, with a trace of resentment flashing in her eyes.
It's all because of her.
Because Gu Nianzhi was clamoring to avenge Song Jinning, Huo Shaoheng let her do whatever she wanted.
Luo Jialan didn't believe a word of how much mother-son affection Huo Shaoheng had for Song Jinning.
Seeing that Huo Shaoheng had never called Song Jinning "mother" or "Mom" in so many years, but only called her "Ms. Song", Luo Jialan believed that her judgment was correct.
She told Cai Shengnan all these situations in detail.
When he first heard so many secrets of the Huo family, Cai Shengnan felt as if he had found a treasure. He was ecstatic and listened very carefully. On the pretext of keeping it for archiving, he not only made audio and video recordings, but also wrote written materials and asked Luo Jialan to sign with her fingerprints. means everything is true.
After understanding all aspects of the situation, Cai Shengnan discussed and checked with his father Cai Sumin and finally determined the defense plan.
To defend a murder case, it is nothing more than those three iron rules.
As long as it is used properly, all murder is not a sin.
Gu Nianzhi stood up from the plaintiff's table calmly and continued to talk.
"Seventeen years ago, Ms. Song Jinning was seriously injured during an experiment, which resulted in damage to local brain mechanisms and severe impairments in memory and cognition. Professional psychologists have verified that she is indeed a severe mental patient with no ability to act."
"Ten years ago, Ms. Luo Jialan, who was still called Huo Jialan, was the adopted daughter of Martyr Huo Guanyuan. Martyr Huo Guanyuan was the brother of Ms. Song Jinning's ex-husband, Mr. Huo Guanchen. In other words, Ms. Luo Jialan was the niece of Ms. Song Jinning at that time."
"Ten years ago, Ms. Luo Jialan's mother Luo Xinxue was murdered by Bai Jinyi. Luo Jialan ignored her mother and allowed her to die."
"Objection. The cases of Bai Jinyi and Luo Xinxue have nothing to do with this case. Please ask the prosecution lawyer not to talk about them."
Cai Shengnan heard that Gu Nianzhi was involved in the death of Luo Jialan's biological mother, Luo Xinxue, and hurriedly stopped him.
In Cai Shengnan's view, this is where Luo Jialan is most passive.
Not saving his mother is a sign of cruelty in the eyes of many people.
If Gu Nianzhi is allowed to push this point of view into the minds of the judge and the military personnel who are observing, it will make it more difficult for her to argue later.
Gu Nianzhi was interrupted by Cai Shengnan and paused before continuing: "Your honor, I will prove that these two cases are related."
"Bai Jinyi has been sentenced. Prosecution lawyer, don't you understand what 'neither double jeopardy' means? In that case, my client was only an important witness, and he was deceived by Bai Jinyi and watched helplessly as his biological mother The poor daughter who died. Her conscience has been troubled by this incident and she has been tortured. Please ask the prosecution lawyer not to use this incident as an excuse to stimulate my client's emotions."
Luo Jialan cried appropriately.
She cried as much as she could, with tears streaming down her face. The feeling of mourning was truly genuine.
Some people already showed unbearable expressions.
Gu Nianzhi was still very calm and said: "Lawyer Cai, first of all, the principle of 'neither double jeopardy' only applies to the sentenced defendant. In other words, you may be able to propose this principle for the defendant Bai Jinyi in that case, but for Luo Jialan, who was just a tainted witness at the time, is not applicable at all."
"Secondly, our Chinese Empire does not have the principle of 'non-double jeopardy'. Our principle is to seek truth from facts and correct mistakes. Therefore, the court will ignore your proposal of 'non-double jeopardy'."
Cai Shengnan's face was burning, as if he had been slapped in the face in front of the court!
She didn't expect Gu Nianzhi to react so quickly, know all the legal systems so well, and pick up concepts and theories easily.
The corner of his mouth twitched a few times, and he sat down reluctantly. He worked ten times harder and continued to prick his ears, trying to find loopholes in Gu Nianzhi's statement.
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This is the third update today: Chapter 1353 "You are the one who gets smoked".
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