The police chief of Little Rock City didn't know He Zhichu's reputation, he only knew that he had a relatively strong background.
But the judge of the Utah Superior Court knew that He Zhichu's background was not just "famous."
In the past year, He Zhichu made staggering amounts of political donations to the campaigns of various congressmen and public officials.
Coupled with his lofty status in the political and military circles, it has attracted the attention of the legal profession.
After receiving a call from He Zhichu, the judge of the Utah Superior Court immediately stated that he would schedule Ye Xuan's case earlier. At the same time, without saying a word, he agreed to He Zhichu's bail for Ye Xuan.
Half an hour later, an order signed by a Superior Court judge was delivered to the Little Rock Sheriff's Office.
"...What?! Agree to bail?!" The police chief was furious, "I haven't agreed yet! How dare he..."
"Mr. Sheriff, I advise you to stop talking. If you keep talking, your public pension will be gone." He Zhichu coldly interrupted the Sheriff's complaint.
What kind of public official retires without a pension
Convicted public officials.
"You threatened me? I didn't break the law?!" The police chief of Little Rock City became nervous, and there were shiny beads of sweat on his round red nose.
"If you use illegal means to obstruct my client from getting justice, the court will give a fair judgment." He Zhichu stopped talking to him and motioned to Smith to show the Sheriff the order of the High Court agreeing to bail, "Okay, I I need to take my client away."
The police chief stared at the piece of paper and suddenly said: "There is a bail bond of one million dollars on it! Where is your money?"
"...I have already handed it over to the court." He Zhichu twitched his lips, "otherwise, do you think the court will sign a bail order for free?"
He Zhichu's toughness made the police chief of Little Rock realize for the first time that his seniority seemed not to be enough...
He began to miss Ye Xuan's former lawyer. He was really easy to talk to. He would listen to whatever he said and would never speak from the perspective of a suspect.
The police chief of Little Rock had a very bad impression of He Zhichu. He felt that he was the kind of greedy lawyer who sucked people's blood. As long as he was given money, he could defend anyone, and his conscience would be eaten by dogs!
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The iron door of the detention center opened. Ye Xuan sat up from his single bed and subconsciously blocked his sight with his arms.
The light coming from the door was too dazzling, and Ye Xuan, who had been in the small dark room for several days, was not used to it.
He Zhichu stood at the door with one hand in his pocket and did not go in. He said coldly: "Let's go, you are released on bail."
Ye Xuan suddenly put down his arm: "Really?!"
He Zhichu turned around and left without saying a word.
Ye Xuan saw that the iron door of the detention center was not closed again, and he hurriedly rushed out.
The policeman at the door nodded to him and did not stop him.
Ye Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he was really released on bail.
Following He Zhichu all the way out of the police station and back to the hotel, Ye Xuan remained silent.
It wasn't until he entered the room that Ye Xuan said, "Thank you, Mr. He. How much is the bail? I can pay it back to you."
He Zhichu looked at his watch nonchalantly and said, "Your case has been scheduled. If there are no accidents, it will go to court tomorrow. Get ready. Go eat and take a shower first, and then tell me the whole situation."
Ye Xuan hurriedly agreed.
Twenty minutes later, Ye Xuan came to the door of He Zhichu's room and knocked on the door.
The door opened, and Smith's face poked out of the door, "Come in."
Ye Xuan nodded to Smith.
"I'm Lawyer He's assistant. Just call me Smith." Smith stretched out his hand to him and smiled friendly.
Ye Xuan also shook hands with him before coming to sit in front of He Zhichu.
He Zhichu asked Smith to sit down, turned on the recording button on his phone, raised his chin to Ye Xuan, and said a simple word: "Speak."
Ye Xuan's mouth felt dry when he thought of his experiences these days.
He licked his lips, thought carefully about what happened before and after, and told He Zhichu and Smith in chronological order.
"... I learned Mr. Vanderbilt's address from Gu Yanran, so I wanted to come to him and ask Uncle Gu if he had a will in his place. I observed him for several days and thought he was ready before I went to test him. Unexpectedly, he was very Be vigilant and don’t reveal anything at all.”
"I tried for two or three days, and he finally let go, and then something happened."
Ye Xuan's fingers were a little itchy and he raised his eyes to look at He Zhichu, "Is there any smoke?"
He Zhichu didn't smoke before, but later he gradually started smoking in order to find Gu Nianzhi.
He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and threw it to Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan took it over and looked at it, and his heart skipped a beat.
This cigarette lasts longer than ordinary cigarettes, is completely white, and has a light fragrance from the shredded tobacco. After smoking it, the taste of your lips and teeth is very refreshing, unlike other cigarettes that always smell bad after smoking. -This kind of cigarette also has a name. He didn't know it until he came to the Chinese Empire. It's called special cigarette...
After Gu Yanran went to see Prime Minister Tan, she once got him a pack of special cigarettes, and proudly told him that even money could not buy such cigarettes, so he smoked them once.
Ye Xuan calmly took one out and threw the rest back to He Zhichu.
Li Ran took a deep puff, and the taste was indescribably strong, even better than the special cigarettes Gu Yanran gave him.
He Zhichu also took one out, lowered his head, lit it and took a deep breath, indicating for him to continue.
Smith, who doesn't smoke, was a little overwhelmed by these two people. He pointed to the smoke alarm on the ceiling and said, "You two, be careful..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the smoke alarm rang wildly.
He Zhichu stood up and said to Ye Xuan, "Go out and talk."
Ye Xuan hurriedly followed him to the terrace.
The two stood under the November sunshine in Utah, USA, and began to talk about the Vanderbilt case.
"...You mean, you came out of the neighborhood where Vanderbilt lived that day, and your car had a problem halfway. You repaired it for several hours, and then returned to the hotel in the middle of the night?" He Zhichu said thoughtfully, "Then what do you mean? Yes, you have no witnesses to prove that you were repairing your car on the road during that time?”
Ye Xuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, "They are deliberately trying to frame me. Of course they have taken these into consideration."
"Well, what then? You went back to the hotel to sleep at midnight, and during that time, something happened to the Vanderbilt family?"
"It should be said that before I returned to the hotel, something happened to his house, but no one knew about it for a while. Later, after the other party set a fire, the fire became so intense that no one discovered it." Ye Xuan spent several days exploring the neighborhood where Vanderbilt lived. , so I am very familiar with that place.
"Vanderbilt's house is very remote?" He Zhichu opened the tablet in his hand and checked the location.
"Yes, their mansion is close to the lake and is some distance away from other houses in that neighborhood." Ye Xuan gestured to He Zhichu, "If the fire broke out in the early morning, most people would be sleeping, and not many people would be found."
He Zhichu nodded.
The timelines match up, but the only trouble is that Ye Xuan had no witnesses for a few hours that day.
But this is not a particularly big doubt.
As long as he really didn't do it, the other party would have no direct evidence that Ye Xuan appeared at the fire scene.
It is very difficult to convict someone without direct evidence in a judicial system like the United States that relies on juries.
The role of reasoning in court is not to serve as a direct basis for conviction, but to provide logical clues to the chain of evidence.
As for Ye Xuan's case, the chain of evidence was seriously missing, so it was completely unsatisfactory for the Little Rock City Sheriff to use this to convict Ye Xuan.
Gu Nianzhi probably thought of this, but in order for Ye Xuan to return home safely, she would rather use extradition than acquittal. Although the latter was easier, it was also more dangerous.
He Zhichu knew that if the people behind it were really the people he guessed, then their methods were not something that the special police of the Chinese Empire could handle.
I'm afraid the regular army will have to be deployed to be the opponent of those people.
He Zhichu was holding a cigarette in his mouth and looking at the red rocky mountains in front of the hotel, with an expression on his face like an ice sculpture.
Just then, his cell phone rang suddenly.
When He Zhi first saw that it was Gu Nianzhi's number, he answered it with a Bluetooth headset.
Once connected, she quickly said hello and asked about his progress here.
After He Zhichu answered one by one, Gu Nianzhi hesitated for a long time and finally got to the point: "...Professor He, the Ye Xuan case is being hyped on social media right now, and they also say that our country wants to extradite Ye Xuan back to the country."
Gu Nianzhi paused and then said, "I was curious, so I checked to find out who started this topic. After... following several marketing accounts, I found that the person behind the payment was Gu Yanran."
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