Lu Ming really was thinking that it would be enough to just lose the lawsuit to vent Liu Hanming's anger. He personally took action, which showed that he really thought highly of his own small law firm.
Of course, it seems that a few points are needed to advance, so he sacrifices himself and other young lawyers to get points steadily. It also seems that it is because of the previous grudges, so it is not bullying the weak, and people will not think that he deliberately finds young lawyers to brush up points in order to get points and advance.
You should keep a low profile and not be too pushy.
Moreover, in murder cases, ninety-nine out of a hundred suspects are not innocent.
Even if there is the so-called legal spirit, anyone with a conscience would feel bad if they helped a client who they knew was a murderer to get rid of guilt. Therefore, many lawyers who specialize in criminal defense have more or less psychological illnesses.
However, when Lu Ming returned to the office and took the file sent by Wang Daan, he frowned after looking at it for a while.
The suspect is called Li Si, a homeless man from another place who has a lame leg.
The victim was a local celebrity, the second concubine of Liu Shoucheng, the second largest shareholder of Mingjia Entertainment. Her name was Li Xiaoyan and she was 45 years old.
According to the files, three months ago, the second concubine's car hit a homeless man. Feeling sorry for the homeless man, she took him in as her permanent companion.
But this tramp had a vicious heart. More than ten days ago, he intended to rape the second concubine, but failed, so he killed the second concubine, robbed her of her money and fled.
When the police arrested him, they also found a lot of property that originally belonged to the second concubine in his nest.
His confession stated that he committed murder and robbery after his attempted robbery failed.
But when Wang Da'an asked him to confess, he changed his confession on the spot, saying that he had signed the confession fabricated by the police because he was tortured.
Lu Ming frowned, thinking it was illogical that this guy did not flee Beiguan after robbing and killing someone.
After all, he was a beggar without any identity, and it would be difficult to find him if he ran away.
"Brother Wang, this Li Si refuses to plead guilty. What did you say to him?" Lu Ming came to Wang Daan's office.
Wang Daan smiled bitterly, "This guy is just like those death row inmates. He said that Liu's second concubine wanted to rape him, but he was not as strong as her. In a panic, he picked up something and accidentally knocked her unconscious. Then, he left the hotel. He also said that the things in his small apartment were all given to him by his second concubine in the past."
“I can’t even make up a story!” Wang Da’an shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Lu Ming picked up the file again and looked inside. The second concubine, Li Xiaoyan, was 1.78 meters tall and weighed 213 kilograms.
After staring at the file for a while, Lu Ming said, "Brother Wang, please arrange for me to meet this Li Si."
Wang Daan nodded: "You are good at speaking, maybe you can convince him to plead guilty."
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Beiguan Detention Center is located in the southern suburbs of the town. It is a heavily guarded compound with iron gates and high walls. The high walls are covered with thorny barbed wire. Outside, the lonely weeping willows seem lifeless. Looking at them from a distance, it is quite depressing and makes people feel that freedom is really great.
The reception room was extremely simple, with only a wooden table and a few chairs on each side.
The police officer in black uniform stood a few steps away, monitoring the visitor's every move.
Lu Ming and Chen Qinghua sat on one side of the wooden table, waiting for the police to bring Li Si over.
From time to time, Chen Qinghua secretly glanced at Lu Ming who was resting with his eyes closed. He had never followed this young lawyer Lu in a case before, and they had even met seldom. This was the first time he followed him in a case. He had heard lawyer Wang Da'an praise lawyer Lu very much, but lawyer Wang Da'an himself was very mediocre. In his eyes, any lawyer should be better than him.
As for Gigi, she also admired Lawyer Lu, but she inexplicably admired anyone who was successful, and looked up to anyone who was a city dweller. Lawyer Lu, who had a beautiful Western personal assistant, was naturally like a god in her eyes, and her words were not enough to serve as evidence.
Although I was born in the countryside, attended a poor university, and had a fear of exams, so I had no chance of taking the judicial examination, I did not think that in the legal profession, anyone who could pass the bar exam was necessarily better than me.
If I discover something, should I tell Lawyer Lu? I don’t know what his temper is like. Will he be unhappy if I express my opinions casually
When Chen Qinghua was just thinking about it, he heard the sound of the iron door leading to the inner room. Then a police officer came out with a prisoner in prison uniform. The prisoner had long hair that covered his face, and his face seemed to be injured. White gauze almost covered half of his face, and he walked with a limp.
When he got closer, the police officer uncuffed the prisoner, patted him on the shoulder, turned around, took a few steps back, and stood next to the wall.
The police officer who had been standing inside earlier opened the front door and went outside to wait.
The lame prisoner sat down slowly and with great difficulty. His lame leg could not bend, so sitting down was very difficult. He had to stretch it to the side and sit down in a strange posture.
After a long while, Lawyer Lu didn't say anything. Chen Qinghua looked over in surprise, only to see Lawyer Lu staring at the suspect in front of him with a strange expression.
The suspect was staring at Lawyer Lu at this moment. Although his face was almost completely wrapped in white gauze, his eyes that were exposed were full of shock and disbelief.
These eyes look very young, so I guess the suspect is not very old either.
At this time, Lu Ming waved to the black uniformed police officer and took out a green ten-yuan note. "Brother Bailiff, can you please bring me a cup of coffee?"
The police officer's eyes lit up when he saw the color of the banknote, but he walked over slowly and took the banknote. "You are not allowed to talk during this time. Do you understand?"
Lu Ming nodded and said to Chen Qinghua, "You should also go and have a cup of coffee."
Chen Qinghua was stunned for a moment, vaguely feeling that Lawyer Lu seemed to know the suspect, but then he stood up and followed the police out of the visiting room.
"It's really you..." The suspect on the other side had a dry and hoarse voice. It was no longer the voice of the person Lu Ming knew.
Lu Ming looked at him, with countless thoughts running through his mind, including wondering what price the police would demand in order for him to return and die immediately.
Although the person opposite had a lame leg and his face was wrapped in white gauze, his eyes were so familiar.
He is my mortal enemy who I have been fighting against for more than ten years since childhood.
In Wuan, “I” am the representative of the dandy young men, while the person opposite me is the leader among the young talents.
The two gangs were born enemies, from fighting naked when they were young to fighting openly and secretly in their small circles during their teenage years.
And when he had just come into this world, it was this guy who acted as the main prosecutor, accusing him and Zhen of being an adulterer and murdering Lord Long.
Li Mingxuan is the youngest and most promising prosecutor in Wuan.
Although I read the newspaper on the train while fleeing, there was a report about the Wuan riot causing a war between the two brigade commanders, and it was also briefly mentioned that a prosecutor named Li was seriously injured in the riot. At that time, I suspected that it was Li Mingxuan, because when I was escaping, the people of the Shuanglong Society were also attacking Li Mingxuan.
But I never expected to see him in the East China Sea, and in such a miserable state.
His legs are lame, his face is wrapped in gauze for some reason, and now he is a murder suspect.
But the problem was that he saw himself, which meant that his escape was in vain.
Although there is only an official dedicated telephone line between the Empire and the four provinces of the Northern Territory, there is no private telephone connection.
But if he wrote a letter or sent a telegram back and it was seen by someone looking for his whereabouts, all his efforts would be in vain.
Only the dead can keep secrets forever.
At this time, Li Mingxuan laughed in a strange voice, "I didn't expect that you also escaped here, and you succeeded while I failed. It seems that I really underestimated you before, Lawyer Lu Qianxing, right?"
Lu Ming slowly leaned back in his chair and saw the San Paotai brand cigarette dropped by Chen Qinghua beside him. He took one out and lit it.
The cheap cigarettes without filters were very choking, but my thoughts gradually became clearer.
"Tell me about your case, Li Si, right?" Lu Ming pulled out a piece of paper from the file, which was a copy of the printout. "This is your confession. You don't admit it now, right?"
"I didn't kill anyone. They tortured me and got the confession." Li Mingxuan grinned and stretched out his hand. "Can I have a cigarette?"
Lu Ming pushed the cigarette box and matches over.
Li Mingxuan slowly took out a cigarette from the cigarette box, then slowly lit it up. He stared at the faint match flame for a while, until it was about to burn his hand. He then seemed to come to his senses and dropped the matchstick.
He took a deep breath greedily and exhaled a long stream of thick smoke. He looked at Lu Ming and said, "Forget it. It seems that I am doomed. Actually, you don't have to waste money to buy my life for those bastards. I can't contact the outside world at all now. If I return to the detention room, I will be beaten. I think I will be beaten to death before I can even be tried in court!"
Lu Ming said nothing and just looked at him.
"You son of a bitch, sometimes I think, all of this is because of you. If I see you, I will bite you to death piece by piece!"
"My whole family is dead, and it's all because of you, do you know that?!"
Li Mingxuan took a deep puff of cigarette, looked at Lu Ming, and smiled strangely, "It's all because of you!"
Lu Ming was stunned for a moment, "The Shuanglong Society killed your entire family?"
"Shuanglong Society? The Shuanglong Society wanted to kill me, but they were all killed by Officer Han!" There seemed to be a little warmth in Li Mingxuan's eyes, and then he shook his head.
Lu Ming just looked at him quietly.
"Is she, is she okay?" Li Mingxuan suddenly asked, with a gleam in his eyes.
"Yeah, it's fine." Lu Ming slowly put out the cigarette butt, knowing that he was asking about Zhen.
Li Mingxuan nodded slowly and took a few puffs of his cigarette. "Okay, I never thought that I would die in your hands in the end. I didn't get tortured to death silently like a wild dog. God has been kind to me."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Maybe."
Li Mingxuan was silent, and suddenly said: "You should still remember that in the court, Zhao Jinsong said that he received a report call and then checked your car, and found Long Ye's body in your car?"
"I was curious, so I looked up the origin of the phone call that Zhao Jinsong received."
"As a result, what do you think happened? My whole family died. My whole family died!"
“Haha. Haha. Haha!”
Li Mingxuan suddenly laughed, laughed crazily.
The iron gate opened with a clang, and the policeman rushed in, pointing his baton at Li Mingxuan and saying, "Sit down, sit down honestly!"
Chen Qinghua followed behind.
Seeing that Li Mingxuan was still laughing crazily, the police officer walked over with a baton. With a "bang", the baton hit Li Mingxuan on the head, but he just smiled foolishly.
"Bang bang", a few more sticks.
Lu Ming watched quietly, and suddenly said: "Officer, please stop. I now want to have my injuries examined and to arrange for Li Si to be released on bail and receive medical treatment!"
What? The police officer turned around suddenly and looked at Lu Ming in disbelief. Originally, he thought this young lawyer was very sensible and gave him 10 yuan of hard-earned money, but he didn't expect that his attitude suddenly changed.
"Qinghua, go make an appointment with the newspaper reporter." Lu Ming said to Chen Qinghua, who was standing next to him and had no idea what was going on.
"No, no, Mr. Lu, what are you doing?!" The police officer immediately panicked.
Lu Ming nodded: "How about this, you go and tell Director Li that Li Si has an acute illness and needs medical treatment on bail. If he disagrees, I will ask for an immediate medical examination. Li Guan also talked to me yesterday. Our detention center has always been based on humanity, and we have given the suspects the rights they deserve!"
I think that even if people in the judicial circle don’t know about it, if they deliberately ask around, they would have heard about the “special relationship” between him and Li Guan.
I thought to myself, Grandma Li, Grandma Li, don’t blame me for taking advantage of you. I’m a stranger here and I can only borrow from your reputation.
"Yes, yes, Mr. Lu, please wait a moment. I will go and ask for instructions." The police officer didn't know who "Li Guan" was, but lawyers are not easy to deal with, and lawyers who are generous are even harder to deal with. So he let Chief Li make the decision, as it was none of his business anyway.
The police officer hurried out. Looking at Li Mingxuan who was still grinning foolishly, Lu Ming slowly sat down, not knowing what he was thinking.
Chen Qinghua, who was standing beside him, had a lot of questions in his mind, but he didn't dare to ask more.