Beiguan Jinshun Hotel is a two-story building. In fact, it is the same small building as No. 6 Jing'an Lane that Lu Ming bought. However, it has more than a dozen extremely small rooms upstairs and downstairs. It is an extremely cheap hotel with a daily rental of about 1 yuan per room.
Today, this small hotel has been booked by Cheng Lingyu, with a monthly rent of 200 yuan. It has been booked for one month and all members of the "special case team" have moved in.
The members of the special case team are mainly prosecutors from the Xinfa District Procuratorate.
The serial murder case of Masakazu Kato has been filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Donghai, also known as Beiguan Court. The court has also formally accepted the case and is waiting for scheduling.
The Chief Prosecutor is Senior Director of Public Prosecutions Cheng Lingyu, who also selects the team members.
The second-in-command prosecutor is Yu Zhengdao, the chief prosecutor of the Xinfa District Procuratorate, who is also an experienced prosecutor.
In addition, the team also has a deputy director of prosecution, a chief prosecutor, and two assistant chief prosecutors, who are responsible for collecting evidence, checking for omissions and filling gaps, etc. They are actually errand runners, and most of them are young prosecutors.
Beiguan Procuratorate Branch also sent one person to join the team, an old acquaintance of Lu Ming, Hou Dexing, the star prosecutor of Beiguan Procuratorate Branch. In Lu Ming's mind, he is the weakened version of Li Mingxuan of Beiguan.
Lu Ming had fought with him in the case of Liu Laocai.
In the prosecutor sequence, Hou Dexing is a special prosecutor, which means he is the most junior prosecutor, after all, he is young.
As for the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, they can basically be regarded as interns and are not qualified to appear in court independently.
Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, Director of Public Prosecutions, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Director of Public Prosecutions, Senior Director of Public Prosecutions, etc. can be seen as titles in the previous life, or as the hierarchy of prosecutors. Like in the previous life, seniority is a serious issue.
The team includes eight prosecutors, which is an unprecedentedly strong lineup.
Now, another external lawyer has been added to the prosecution team, namely Lu Ming.
The largest room in the hotel was used as a meeting room. Cheng Lingyu presided over the first prosecution team meeting and arranged the work assignments for the prosecutors.
In addition to the nine members of the prosecution team, there were two detectives sitting on chairs in the corner, from the 13th Precinct of the Donghai Police Station, also known as the Beiguan Precinct.
Li Wei, deputy chief of the Criminal Division and head of Group 2, and Sha Dahai, deputy head of the group.
According to the relevant laws and regulations of the Empire Prosecution, in criminal cases, the prosecutorial agency has temporary command over police officers.
This is very similar to what Lu Ming knew about Korea in his previous life.
In most other countries, in prosecution cases, the procuratorate and the police department have a cooperative relationship, of course, the procuratorate is the main body and the police department is the auxiliary.
Although the Beiguan Court accepted the case, in reality, the prosecution's evidence was still very weak and further evidence collection was needed.
Cheng Lingyu assigned tasks to each prosecutor, including the two detectives, and everyone took notes.
Only Lu Ming had empty hands. He stared in a daze at the dark cockroaches crawling in and out of the floor.
"Lu Qianxing, Mr. Lu, what do you think?" Cheng Lingyu suddenly looked at Lu Ming with a sarcastic tone. Seeing that Lu Ming did not take notes seriously and was out of tune with the others, he was quite dissatisfied.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "No, I'm listening. Prosecutor Wang is responsible for the safety and psychological counseling of the surviving boy. He needs to guide the psychologist and try his best to get the surviving child permission to testify in court. The best solution is to obtain an effective confession and, through a psychological report, prevent the defense from asking him to appear in court."
"The High Prosecutor, together with the patrol officers, take the boy's photo and make sure to find someone who knows him and confirm his identity. It would be great if you can find his relatives."
"Prosecutor Zhang, we also need the cooperation of the patrol department to screen the local missing children to see if we can find the victim that Jin Zhengyi mentioned. We need to be meticulous and careful, and cover the villages below."
"Prosecutor Liu, you need to handle your relationship with the media well, and pay special attention to the defense's comments in the media. You need to guide the media and use them for our benefit, but the media should not be too heated, so as not to give the defense an excuse for an invalid trial."
"Wow!" Next to Lu Ming sat a young man with a childish face. He looked like a prosecutor who had just graduated from college. Indeed, his name was Wang Xiaohu, and he joined the office as an assistant prosecutor last year.
At this time, he exclaimed and gave Lu Ming a thumbs up, "Lawyer Lu, you are awesome!"
He had been memorizing everything, preparing to go back and sort out the context of his superior's speech, but now he saw that the young lawyer Lu did not need paper or pen at all, but remembered everything clearly. What's more wonderful is that what he said were all the key points, without any nonsense, and was concise and to the point. In fact, Chief Cheng chattered for a long time, but Lawyer Lu summarized it in just a few words. Now he just needed to write down Lawyer Lu's words. This was the summary of the key points that he needed to sort out when he went back.
It's amazing!
Over there, Cheng Lingyu was stunned for a moment, then snorted coldly, "Don't stare at the cockroaches in a daze. The office conditions here are definitely not comparable to those of you lawyers, but if we don't hire you from outside, and the funds are sufficient, we don't have to work here. You only get 325 yuan in subsidies a month, then we can use 525 yuan to rent an office that is two levels better than here!"
When some prosecutors heard that Lu Ming's external employment fee was 325 yuan a month, they showed indignation on their faces. This is their pain point.
Although prosecutors' salaries are not low, they are all poor compared to the successful lawyers they often deal with.
The monthly salary of an assistant prosecutor is only 50 or 60 yuan. Even Cheng Lingyu, a senior chief prosecutor who is at the top of the pyramid among ordinary prosecutors, only earns about 300 yuan a month.
On the other hand, if you hire an outside lawyer to prosecute, the cost is usually very high. How can this not be annoying
This young rookie lawyer only gets 320 yuan a month. Where can he seek justice
Lu Ming rubbed his nose. In fact, when the prosecution department hired external lawyers to prosecute, they usually hired famous lawyers as chief prosecutors.
The so-called monthly subsidy is just a symbolic one. A famous lawyer may spend several months acting as the chief prosecutor without taking on any other cases. How can he do it for such a small sum of money? It is just for fame.
Some are tired of being a defense lawyer, the competition is too fierce, and the assessment scores drive people crazy. In comparison, prosecutors have it too easy.
Therefore, after making enough money, some people switch careers to become prosecutors, or even use prosecution as a stepping stone to pave the way into politics.
As for myself, I was hired from outside, but I am not even the second-in-command prosecutor, that is, I cannot sit in the prosecutor's seat. I am just a member of the team participating in this case. If I want to watch the trial, I have to apply myself and sit in the audience gallery.
But she provided key evidence and had the support of Li Guan, so she had an extraordinary reputation. Therefore, she was able to join this huge prosecution team, and the subsidy should be paid according to the normal standards for hiring lawyers.
But obviously, this is unfair to these prosecutors.
But then again, prosecutors have a very comfortable life. The competition among lawyers is so fierce that most of them simply cannot adapt. Many prosecutors entered the public sector after failing in the competition in the legal profession. They earn a guaranteed salary and have nothing to complain about.
"Go on!" Cheng Lingyu also felt that after he finished speaking, the atmosphere was not right and it would affect the unity of the team, so he changed the subject and continued to assign tasks to the Public Prosecutor and the Assistant Public Prosecutor.
"Wang Xiaohu, you are responsible for checking the underground human trafficking market to see if there are any children being sold to Japanese people. This requires the cooperation of the local patrol police. Sorry, Chief Li!"
Li Wei nodded gently: "Don't worry, Inspector Cheng, our Criminal Division will fully cooperate during this period. We will stop all cases that can be stopped and transfer personnel to this case."
Cheng Lingyu looked at Lu Ming again: "Lawyer Lu, you should be in a group with Xiaohu and give Xiaohu more guidance."
Lu Ming smiled and nodded.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the underground human trafficking market is just a last-ditch effort.
After all, Jin Zhengyi claimed that most of the victims were local children from Beiguan, and there were very few local children in the underground human trafficking market.
When Wang Xiaohu heard that he could be in the same group with Lu Ming, he was so excited that his face flushed and he stammered to Lu Ming: "Brother Lu, I will definitely learn from you!"
He came from a poor family and can be said to be one of the few examples of someone who changed his destiny and achieved class advancement through knowledge.
He had always been an excellent student, graduated with honors from the Imperial University Law School, and chose a stable job as a prosecutor.
He has always admired the eloquent lawyers in court. Since he is not very good at speaking, he is even more envious of the young lawyers who can speak eloquently in court at a young age, and admires their courage and confidence.
Lawyer Lu, who was only 19 years old, became a second-level lawyer in his first year in the legal profession. Moreover, Lawyer Lu gave birth to a legal principle in the Beiguan Court that was accepted by most other courts in the empire, namely the "child protection" principle.
Lawyer Lu is simply his role model in life.
Although he is older than Lawyer Lu, he is more accomplished than others. If I don’t call him “Big Brother”, it would be difficult to express my admiration for him, which is as unstoppable as the flood of the Yellow River.