It was an unusually long trial.
Since Pezer has not said a word since his arrest and could not get any statement from his mouth, the court chose to use witness testimony and evidence collection to prove his crime.
A team of witnesses, headed by Berg and composed of children born in Star Prison, began to take the witness stand to state their experiences.
People are not unfamiliar with these young witnesses. After all, the media has been tracking and reporting on their lives after they came to Sky City. Many people only saw what the people in the dungeon looked like for the first time through these reports, and realized that these children After they were no different from the children in Sky City, they also fell in love with these children because of the details presented in the reports.
Sensible, well-behaved and motivated, no one would hate this kind of child.
However, as reported in the report, what people learned was only the life of the children after they arrived in the Sky City of Eternal Day, and what they learned was only the life of these children after their hardships. Before these children stated their experiences, they could not imagine it at all. : These little bodies have experienced such terrible things!
The media did report it after Peezer's initial arrest, but the report was just a report, far less than hearing the self-reporting of these experiences in person, and the self-reporting of strangers is one effect, and the self-reporting of people who are familiar is another. an effect.
Not to mention such a young and pitiful speaker! ! !
The children's narratives have no trace of being taught by adults. They just use the language they master to describe their past lives. Those tragic lives are not terrible in the children's narratives, and they are not to the point of being unable to live. the point of going down. because-
"People who think this kind of life can't go on are dead." This sentence was said by Berg. He used to be only a team leader, but now he has the meaning of becoming the leader of this large group of children. He is not young. He is not tall, but his narrative ability is the best.
He didn't sell miserably, because he didn't think his life was "miserable", he thought so from the bottom of his heart, and the maintenance and care of other companions shown in his narrative ability and speech and demeanor moved many adults , is simply a "little adult"!
However, it was this "adult"-like behavior that made people sympathize with him even more.
Nearly 2,000 children, even if each of them only said a few words, the total time is not short. The judge let them speak freely, and the people in the gallery listened like this. The whole hearing process, only the children. Our part went on for three full days!
During these three days, the 12-hour court session during the day was extremely intense, deeply sympathetic to the children, and the audience abruptly finished the long hearing process! And listening to the children talk about life in the star prison every day for three consecutive days, many people actually felt the same way, as if they had crawled out of hell again.
During the daytime hearing, the judge will arrange a regular rest time, and the children and the audience can take the opportunity to rest, while the reporters have to work overtime even during this period, and pass the photos and recorded content to the needle. When they arrived at their own planet, the reports flew out like snowflakes.
The entire Sky City has linked up, and the petitions to strictly deal with Pei Ze and to thoroughly investigate the forces behind Pei Ze have become more and more enthusiastic...
From the beginning to the end, Pei Ze on the judgment platform didn't say a word. His eyes were open, as if he was looking at the scales on the judgment platform in front of him, and he didn't seem to see anything.
This scene... Xiaomei always felt deja vu. Long, long ago, he seemed to have seen a similar scene somewhere.
A gentle male voice came from his ear, and he moved his eyes to the face of the man who was talking, yes, this is it.
The one who is making the statement now is Alan.
As the experiencer of the whole incident and the current guardian of the children, Allen also took the stage to tell about his own experience.
He is now on the witness stand, not the hearing stand.
And a long time ago, in one of his memories, Allen came to Sky City for the first time and came to Star Court, but he was not on the witness stand, but where Peze was standing now.
The bench.
At that time, Allen, like Pezer, didn't say anything.
This is an ad hoc special court for convicted prisoners.
Their identities have been identified as guilty persons, and the entire court process is to allow more people to clearly recognize their "sin", and the witnesses' statements are only to accurately sentence them.
From the moment they stood on this stage, they were destined to be sentenced, but the punishment was different.
This is what happened to Pezer now, and this is what happened to Allen in memory.
However-
Xiaomei suddenly felt that the scene in her memory was full of irony.
Fortunately, the development now is different from the past.
Xiaomei quietly looked at Alan, who was slowly narrating her experience in front of her, and the corner of her mouth raised a slight arc.
The last two witnesses - Perma and Ellen once again set off a new climax in Sky City!
Perma's experience is really inspiring, diligent, motivated, filial, eager to learn, smart and witty... After so many hardships, Perma, who still looks like a cheerful young man, has greatly brushed a wave of favorability in the hearts of Sky City people.
And Grandpa Allen...
Uh, there is nothing particularly inspiring about his experience. It is purely up to his face to be able to set off a new climax in Sky City.
But Grandpa Allen didn't mind this. Like the children, he had no interest in selling miserable.
After the statement of the innocence witness team led by Grandpa Allen, the criminal witness team represented by Analo came to the stage to make a statement. The content is probably about the various systems in the Star Prison and how many operations he has performed. , how many organs were used in the operation... and so on.
This wave of testimony once again made the people of Sky City fried.
The same content, narrated from different people is the black and white sides of one thing, from the children, people hear strong, and from Analo, only hate is left.
It was completely different from the treatment of the children. Analo and the others were scolded miserably on the witness stand. If not all the people who entered the court had undergone strict security checks, they might have been thrown dirty.
Stretching out the gavel, the silver-haired female judge slammed on the trial table and said solemnly:
"Quiet, please guard the witnesses to step down, please step down the guards and judges, I announce that the court will be adjourned today, and the evidence-related matters will begin tomorrow..."
That's when the accident happened.
After the gavel rang, there was still a lot of noise in the audience. Some bystanders sat back and prepared to leave, but a few people scolded even more.
The judge is not surprised by this. After all, the testimony she has heard these days is too dark to the point where she doesn't want to look at Pei Ze any more. However, with good professional ethics, the next trial procedure has to continue. After the testimony of the witnesses, the next part is the evidence part.
The exhibits seized in the Star Prison are placed in the courtroom one by one for identification by witnesses and for the hearing witnesses to visit.
The trial this time was actually very procedural. The case was not complicated. Pei Ze made it clear that he was guilty. In the eyes of an experienced judge like her, the conviction was actually easy. It was rarely a game between the two forces behind it.
How to judge? How much is the sentence? Can it be accepted by both parties
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This is a question that every judge assigned to this task has to think about.
One of the reasons for the delay in hearing this case is this issue. Almost every judge hesitates on this issue. Everyone has a tendency. People from both sides are not at ease with the judges of each other's factions. The judge finally found her who was about to retire and had no intention of participating in the struggle between the two houses.
The female judge pursed her thin lips.
Perhaps, other judges who are on the rise in their careers will indeed think about many questions, but for her, who is about to retire, there is only one question she needs to think about:
It is how the judgment can satisfy the people.
She had already come to a conclusion in her heart, and she was not surprised that the hearing person would react at this moment, who hated people like Pei Ze. However, loyal to her integrity, she still called the security personnel and asked them to pull the scolding hearing person away, and then at this moment—
Several shadows suddenly flew out from the auditorium, and two shadows hit Analo and Tahu who had just finished giving their testimony.
"Protect witnesses," the female judge said, but not long after she finished speaking, she quickly thought of a more terrifying issue, turned her head quickly, and said loudly: "Protect the judge! Please take him as soon as possible. Down… "
When she saw something while shouting, she suddenly widened her eyes.
Seemingly hit by something, Pezer collapsed.
When the female judge turned her head, he just fell to the ground softly.
"Alert! All hearings are under control and not allowed to stand! Arrange for the doctor to come quickly!" she shouted.
Layer after layer of guards quickly surrounded the trial table, and soon, Ronggui could see nothing.
They were kept in the isolation room for two full days, and all the hearers were checked one by one before they were released. When they were released, they found out:
Pei Ze was attacked. Although he was not killed, he fell into a coma. His current state...
It's a so-called vegetative.
The hearing person who threw something was caught. The other party insisted that what he threw was just ordinary fruit, so he threw three. He was just an amateur heavy ball *pitcher (*Note: heavy ball, similar to shot put, but with a goal ), it was just a little bit stronger, and then it was just a little bit more accurate. It was just a piece of fruit, and it couldn't be thrown to death at all. Wasn't that... Analuo and Tahu also thrown by him? So far alive and kicking, and also participated in the rescue of Pei Ze!
The police finally found three fruits on the trial table. As he said, they were three ordinary fruits.
However, Pei Ze was stunned to be hit, not only was hit, but also hit the most deadly central nervous system.
This-
Ronggui heard again that they can return next.
The trial was temporarily terminated, and the original female judge was accused of poor supervision and shielding the perpetrator out of personal feelings, and was deprived of the right to participate in the Peze case.
This is not all the news. Just in the evening when Ronggui and Xiaomei returned to Coral City by landwalker, they learned another news:
Escorting the evidence of the Peze case, the land vehicle that was going from other star cities to the Falafel Star Court encountered an accident and some of the evidence was lost.
And Ronggui's body is on the lost list.