In the court, Judge Feng Xuefan and the jury listened to the verbal battle between the prosecution and the defense.
Yamamoto's motion for a direct acquittal of Kato Shoichi was rejected.
Now, Shan Jingfan and Cheng Lingyu are having a heated debate on whether the confession of the servant named Wang Bo is hearsay evidence.
Cheng Lingyu used the strategy that Lu Ming mentioned in public yesterday. He used the example of an old woman blaming her son for pushing her down before she died. He said that when Uncle Wang was giving his statement, he didn't know he was going to die soon. And his character seemed to be cowardly and timid. It was precisely because of this that he was psychologically twisted that he molested a boy to show his strength.
However, he wanted to gain public attention more, so he took on this high-profile case. He just wanted to enjoy the feeling of being under the spotlight, which he had never enjoyed before, and in the end, he would definitely change his confession.
Cheng Lingyu even found a psychologist to analyze the psychological state of people like Wang Bo.
But Shan Jingfan seemed to be well prepared. He refuted the old woman's example directly and said that the old woman was most likely pushed down by her son, because her son could not stand the old woman's complaints for a long time, so he was furious.
The premise is that there really is such a case.
Cheng Lingyu naturally could not find such a precedent.
The psychologist was also embarrassed by Shan Jingfan's strategy.
The first sentence is, "Excuse me, how much time have you and Uncle Wang spent together?"
When the psychiatrist said that he had never seen Uncle Wang, Shan Jingfan even shook his head and laughed contemptuously. After a long time, he blurted out, "So this is how Dr. Li diagnoses psychological problems. Then you should be hired to the palace to be the imperial physician of His Majesty the Emperor. Diagnosing from a distance is an amazing thing for the ages!"
After Cheng Lingyu stood up to object to his ridicule, he bowed directly to the judge's bench and said, "I have no problem anymore!" He didn't even bother to look at the psychiatrist again.
Originally, at the preparatory meeting attended by all prosecutors, the psychologist had made sufficient preparations on how to answer the question of how he had never met Uncle Wang.
Any prosecutor would understand that this is a weak point, but the psychologist is actually very good and professional in explaining why he has never met Uncle Wang, but can analyze him based on his life trajectory and past behavior.
As a result, I was prepared for loneliness.
Originally, at the preparation meeting, Cheng Lingyu talked about this strategy, which was to attack Shan Jingfan and then have the psychologist explain it, so that the jurors would be more convinced.
Who knew that Shan Jing Fan would be defeated directly.
After thinking about it for a long time, he decided not to ask the psychologist to explain this point. Otherwise, it would seem like a forced explanation.
No one questioned him any further and the psychologist left.
Shan Jingfan glanced coldly at the prosecution and stood up: "Your Honor, I request to call our key witness, the witness we spent a long time convincing! For this witness, your Honor gave us ten days to prepare!"
"Objection!" Cheng Lingyu stood up, "We haven't seen any updates to the defense witness list!"
"She agreed to it before the court today, but she is of noble status and I was worried that she would not come to court, so I just had a brief private communication with Feng Guan. But I didn't expect that she would come bravely!"
Shan Jingfan pointed at a figure who had just walked in from the gate and sat in the audience seat.
When Lu Ming looked over, he saw a beautiful young woman wearing a light blue patterned kimono. She had an exquisite bun and a beautiful face. However, compared to the oval faces common among beautiful women in Central China, her face was slightly rounder and plumper. At first glance, she was clearly a typical Japanese woman.
Feng Xuefan waved his hand, and Shan Jingfan and Cheng Lingyu walked up to the judge's seat. The three of them whispered a few words to each other, and Cheng Lingyu nodded reluctantly.
Cheng Lingyu returned to the prosecution seat and whispered to Lu Ming, "Kato Masakazu's cousin's wife, the widow, is called Gui Linghua."
"Witness, please go to the witness stand." Feng Xuefan made a gesture.
The young Japanese woman stood up timidly and walked to the witness stand in white socks and wooden clogs.
Shan Jingfan took two steps forward and said, "The prosecution has always been suspicious of my client's unmarried status. Madam Gui Linghua, do you know the reason?"
Gui Linghua lowered her head, not daring to look around, and whispered something, but her voice was so soft that it could not be heard clearly.
"Mrs. Gui Linghua, please speak louder."
"Because..., we have been childhood sweethearts since we were young, he, he likes me..." Gui Linghua said, her pretty face flushed, and she didn't dare to look up.
"How do you know that?"
"I, I just know it..." Gui Linghua almost buried her head in the witness stand, her voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz.
Although she didn't say the reason, her words made people feel that they were credible.
The dialogue between Sankeihan and Katsura Ayaka is in Japanese, which has been translated into Western and Central Asian languages.
"After your husband passed away, did you and Mr. Kato Shoichi ever get together?"
Gui Linghua was stunned, lowered her head, and remained silent.
"Mrs. Gui Linghua, please answer my question!"
Finally, Gui Linghua nodded slightly.
"Mrs. Gui Linghua, please answer me, yes or no?"
“Yes, yes…” Gui Linghua agreed hurriedly, and it seemed that there were tears in her eyes.
There was noise and discussion in the jury seats and the gallery.
"Mrs. Katsura Ayaka, you mean you were with Mr. Kato Masakazu. Did you have intercourse with him?"
There was an immediate uproar in the courtroom.
Gui Linghua lowered her head and tears slowly fell.
"Madam Gui Linghua, please answer me, yes or no?" Shan Jingfan asked loudly.
“Yes, yes,… I’m sorry… I’m sorry…” Gui Linghua said helplessly, then she fell on the witness stand and sobbed softly.
Immediately, there was a roar and the courtroom was in an uproar.
"Silence! Silence!" Feng Xuefan picked up the gavel and slammed the table hard. The noisy noise in the courtroom gradually subsided.
Shan Jingfan sighed softly and looked at the jury. "Madam Gui Linghua is of noble status and inherited nearly a million yuan of assets from her late husband. Moreover, her late husband left a will that if Madam Gui Linghua remarries or has an affair with someone, she will automatically lose the right of inheritance."
"But when she heard that the prosecution was slandering Mr. Kato Masakazu, saying that he had mental problems because he had not married yet, Mrs. Katsura Ayaka bravely stood up. She would rather lose an astronomical inheritance right than let the person she truly loved be slandered. I admire her courage. She is a great woman who is willing to lose everything for true love. In order to show the truth and refute the prosecution's ridiculous accusations, she bravely sat here. I think none of us has any reason to look down on her!"
Some jurors had guilty expressions on their faces, and some female jurors had sympathy in their eyes. The Western female jurors in particular looked at the prosecution's seat with disdain.
Shan Jing Fan's words made it seem as if it was not him, but the prosecutor's absurd accusation that forced this weak yet great woman to this point.
Several prosecutors sitting in the gallery saw the jurors' reactions clearly.
However, Japanese and Western jurors were chosen to be female as much as possible, which was what they had always insisted on. They were in a stalemate with Shan Jingfan for almost half a month before the jury was successfully formed.
Now, it seems like he has shot himself in the foot.
Female jurors are too emotional.
Moreover, another clever thing about Sanjingfan is that through this questioning, it seems that whether Kato Masakazu dislikes women has become the key to the problem and the main reason why the prosecution suspects him.
Subconsciously, people feel that as long as Kato Masakazu has normal sexual relations with women, he would not be a psychopath who tortured those boys.
Each of these prosecutors was a little frustrated, and Wang Xiaohu gritted his teeth.
At the prosecution table, Lu Ming whispered, "I'll fuck her!" and tried to get up.
As the second in command, the prosecutor had to do the dirty work of making this "great" woman look bad in court. He had to win the favor of the jury and make a closing statement that could not arouse the jury's disgust.
Cheng Lingyu's eyes flashed with deep thought, and he suddenly grabbed Lu Ming's arm and said, "I'll do it!"
Lu Ming was stunned. Cheng Lingyu had already stood up and walked to the witness stand.
"Ms. Gui Linghua, please calm down. When you can answer my questions, please nod." Cheng Lingyu said in a soft voice.
Gui Linghua wiped her tears and nodded gently, "I, I'm fine now... I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
The weakness is extremely distressing.
"Okay, Miss Gui Linghua, may I ask, what is your educational background?" Cheng Lingyu asked indifferently.
Gui Linghua gently pointed at the microphone, "I, I graduated from Form 4..."
"Oh, so you didn't receive higher education, didn't go to college, then have you ever studied human sociology or psychology on your own?"
“No, no…” Gui Linghua said timidly.
"So, Miss Gui Linghua has a lot of experience in dating men, and even a lot of experience in having sex with different men?"
"Objection!" Shan Jingfan stood up suddenly, and there was an uproar in the courtroom.
"Your Honor, my question is very important!" Cheng Lingyu looked at Feng Xuefan.
Feng Xuefan waved his hand and motioned Shan Jingfan to sit down.
Gui Linghua lowered her head and said nothing.
"Well, you don't want to answer and think this question insults you, but what I want to ask is, if you don't have experience with many men and take a lot of samples, how can you know that the men you have had sex with are not pedophiles and will not kill boys?"
"Your Honor! I have finished asking questions!" Cheng Lingyu turned and walked towards the prosecution seat.
"I don't know about others, but, Dan Yilang, I know him. I have known him since I was very young. He is not a pervert, absolutely not!" Gui Linghua suddenly looked up with tears in her eyes and said to Cheng Lingyu's back. Her voice was very low, but her tone was very firm.
Cheng Lingyu was stunned.
In the audience, the prosecutors were all stunned. They could not have imagined that Gui Linghua would do this in the end. Was it a true revelation of her feelings, or something she had learned from Shan Jingfan, or was it just an improvisation
If it is the last one, then this woman is really terrible.
Cheng Lingyu turned around and said, "Well, you and Yilang loved each other and had been childhood sweethearts. That's why you married his cousin. I don't know when you started having an affair with him. However, you refused to divorce his cousin and were unwilling to be with him openly. Even after his cousin passed away, you were unwilling to give up the huge inheritance. So, you continued to have an affair with him secretly. Your feelings were very pure, deep, and very touching!"
Shan Jingfan stood up and kept objecting. After Cheng Lingyu finished speaking, he returned to the prosecution seat without even looking back.
The jurors looked at Gui Linghua, this delicate and gentle woman, with different eyes.
The prosecutors in the gallery all breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Cheng was indeed a very quick responder.
Shan Jingfan looked at the prosecution seat, thought for a moment, stood up and walked in front of Katsura Ayaka, and asked, "Mrs. Katsura Ayaka, why did you marry Mr. Kato Shoichi's cousin?"
"Because, because, he, he forced me. At that time, Ichiro had no status at home. He threatened me that if I didn't marry him, he would kick Ichiro out..."
Gui Linghua lowered her head and wiped her tears.
"So, when your late husband was alive, did you and Mr. Ichiro have an affair?"
“No, absolutely not. I, I wouldn’t dare…” Gui Linghua raised her head with a determined look, then lowered her head timidly after saying the last part.
"After your husband passed away, why didn't you marry Mr. Kato Masakazu in a proper manner? Was it because of the huge inheritance?"
"No, I, we are a big family..." Gui Linghua shook her head gently, with too much helplessness and grievance in her eyes, and tears flowed again.
Shan Jingfan looked at the jury, "After today, Madam Gui Linghua should be driven out of her own house and lose everything, but because of the ridiculous accusation of the prosecution, she... Sigh..."
Shan Jingfan sighed, shook his head, and returned to his seat.
He glanced at the prosecutor's seat and saw a dejected look on Cheng Lingyu's face.
Yes, they are doomed to lose.
In fact, according to the current situation, it doesn't matter whether Gui Linghua's testimony is there or not. Adding this item only makes it even more impossible for them to fight back.
It wouldn’t matter even if they aborted this witness, let alone, what if they didn’t
If this case must be reflected in terms of winning rate, our current winning rate is 99.99%, infinitely close to 100%.
Looking at Kato Shoichi next to him, he whispered, "Mr. Kato, I still say the same thing. Don't cause trouble during this period."
Sometimes I am even afraid of this ruthless guy. He originally wanted to kill that young lawyer, but it was after I persuaded him and even informed the headquarters that they called and issued a strict order to suppress the reckless action he was about to take.
"Hmph, I'll let him live a few more days..." Kato Masakazu said grimly.
Shan Jingfan sighed quietly in his heart. He had an illegitimate child here, who was very young, just five years old. He loved him very much. When he took this case, he wanted to spend time with his family at the same time. However, during this period of time, he dared not bring the child to his side, for fear that Mr. Ichiro would see him.
"Your Honor, we request to question Uncle Wang's testimony again." The young lawyer stood up over there.
Shan Jingfan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head. It was boring. He didn't expect that Prosecutor Cheng would give up like this. It was very boring to win.
Questioning Wang Bo's testimony? What a desperate struggle.