Chapter 125 Trial



Zhu Jin learned the accurate information from Ishigami Bo in the morning that Congress has completely intervened and the case will be treated as a special case.

Because of the attention of Congress and the court's sudden permission for the media to record the entire process, only some media who had been strictly censored were allowed to enter the court to film and broadcast live. Half an hour before the court session, the media staff had arrived in advance to prepare. They were already ready before the court session even started.

After the media were ready, people arrived one after another and the gallery was quickly filled up, with almost no empty seats. Because the number of spectators was limited, many people were unable to enter and waited outside the court. Many of them were media reporters who were unable to enter the courtroom.

At 14:50, Prince Sumu appeared in the court. The man in the middle of the five seats in the audience stood up and gave his seat to Prince Sumu. When the reporters saw him, their eyes lit up and they all started live broadcasting, which made the court lively in advance.

At 14:55, the plaintiffs and defendants entered the courtroom. The huge courtroom was filled up in an instant. There were only Zhu Jin, the prosecutor and three others in the plaintiff's seat. After Zhu Jin and the other two sat down, the defendants followed closely behind. One defendant, two, three, four, ten, twenty, thirty, forty...

One after another, an endless stream of defendants walked in, forming a huge crowd, as if they would never end.

The people in the gallery and the media reporters looked at them in amazement.

After they started to come in, the operator added five rows of chairs to the three fixed seats in the dock. The defendants sat in five rows of 44 people. Except for the five women in the front row, most of the people in the back row were men, and the women in the middle looked unusually strong.

"What's going on?"

"Why are there so many defendants?" There were an unusually large number of people in the dock, more than the number of people involved in the case that shocked the world. After the defendants sat down, they were stunned and finally reacted. The audience, which had been whispering because of Zhu Jin's appearance, became noisy and talked a lot.

"Close-up, close-up... of the defendants, of everyone." The reporters were also greatly surprised. They had inside information, but the inside information did not include so many defendants. They thought that the attempted murder would be a controversial point, but they did not expect it to be so much bigger.

Zhu Jin glanced at Mi Qiang, who was sitting in the front row of the dock and looking at her with resentment, then calmly looked away and looked at the other defendants behind him, whom she was also meeting for the first time.

The defendants also looked at her, with some indifference, some twinkling, some sarcastic, and some unwilling to accept the defeat. Zhu Jin smiled slightly.

At 15:00, the court officially opened. The jury, which had not revealed any information before, appeared with the judge. The twelve people sat in the jury neatly. The Second Chamber of Congress was about to convene. The news had been reporting on it for some time. The members of Congress and the Speaker of the Second Chamber had always been the focus of attention. I didn't expect them to appear in the jury this time. The jury had twelve seats, and it was not easy to pull out each of them.

Everyone in the audience stared at them blankly and lost the urge to whisper. They felt that they had been numbed by the constant stimulation and whispering would be a sign of being restless and immature.

They were calm, but the reporters were not. After the warm-up, they were really excited when they saw the jury. Their breaths were all a little unstable. Their intuition told them that this was big news. Zhu Jin's influence, the large number of defendants, the intervention of Congress, and the powerful jury... This was no longer big news, but super big news. They even had a hunch that the real heat of Congress would begin in this courtroom.

Zhu Jin's gaze moved back from Su Muchu, and his smiling expression froze for a moment when he saw the dignified and domineering Ishigami Bo in a suit and tie in the jury. The brown glasses he wore at least covered up some of the bruises, and as for the corners of his mouth... he simply confused them with his blue stubble.

Zhu Jin didn't expect to see Shi Shangbai in court. She thought that Shi Shangbai would not go out today. Shi Shangbai naturally saw Zhu Jin, and his mouth twitched slightly. Because of his glasses, his eyes followed Zhu Jin unscrupulously, and his eyes were dark and unclear.

After the presiding judge announced the opening of the court, the trial entered into regular procedures.

Presiding Judge: "The court investigation will now begin. Please ask the prosecutor to read the indictment."

The prosecutor sitting next to Zhu Jin looked at each other and nodded, and began to read the indictment, "… The defendants Zhang Ling, Qin... and the other five, after receiving a hiring fee of 100,000 yuan each, planned to maliciously attack Zhu Jin, made an appointment at the Blue Water Star General Hospital and pretended to be a patient to maliciously attack Zhu Jin. After the police investigation and evidence collection, the five have admitted that the hiring task they received was to slap Zhu Jin in the face without causing any other harm, and intentionally slapping someone in the face is an insult to society..."

"…After receiving a total of 150,000 yuan in hiring fees, the defendant Mi Qiang premeditated to murder Zhu Jin. After Zhu Jin was confirmed to work at the Blue Water Star General Hospital, he made an appointment to pretend to be a patient and murdered Zhu Jin. Because the defendant Mi Qiang had already been attacked maliciously by Zhang Ling, Qin... and five others the day before, there were police officers at the scene when the defendant Mi Qiang committed the crime, who promptly prevented the premeditated murder, and the defendant's murder attempt failed."

"In this case, in addition to the suspects who have already committed the crime, there are as many as 38 possible suspects. After investigation, it was found that they had additional employment fees of 150,000 to 180,000 yuan in their accounts, and they were also on Zhu Jin's waiting list. After police investigation, their identities and origins have been ascertained. Thirty of them are self-employed and have a criminal record of being hired for malicious insult and injury. The remaining eight have a criminal record of intentional injury." The prosecutor's voice sounded slowly, and as soon as he finished speaking, the audience seats and the jury were already noisy.

After the incident escalated from a simple malicious insult to an attempted murder through deliberate bribery, it was further upgraded to a serial attempted murder case through bribery.

Both the employers and the employed are too arrogant.

In previous cases, similar to hiring people to insult and injure people, the number of suspects was no more than 20. This time, it was more like a big deal than in the past.

The faces of the people in the audience changed when they heard this, and the faces of the 38 people in the dock also changed drastically. They heard something strange, first they said they were hired, then they said their identities and backgrounds, and there was also an inexplicable attempted murder in the front, so they...

The indictment they received before was obviously not like this! They didn't expect that Zhu Jin and his team deliberately sent them an indictment that they didn't intend to use at all, and then temporarily changed the indictment before the trial. Time was so urgent that only the lawyer had time to read the new indictment.

"After police investigation, all 38 possible suspects gave the same statement, saying that they were hired to hit Zhu Jin in the face without causing any other harm. At the same time, the police found all kinds of small, easy-to-carry but lethal weapons in the homes of the 30 possible suspects." The prosecutor paused for a moment, "The hiring fee was the same as or even more than that of Mi Qiang, who premeditated the murder of Zhu Jin. He has a criminal record and prepared weapons. According to the relevant legal provisions on possible suspects, he meets the conditions for possible premeditated murder."

"Too arrogant, who hired them?"

"It's so scary..." After hearing this, the people in the audience could no longer remain calm. It would be abnormal if they didn't make a noise.

"..." The media reporters suddenly felt that compared to them, worrying about whether they would be beaten when interviewing Zhu Jin was nothing. This was the ultimate horror.

It turned out that Zhu Jin seldom filed lawsuits and used legal means, so they took it lightly. They didn't expect Zhu Jin to be so fierce once he went to court.

The prosecutor was satisfied with the noise, and calmly waited for the presiding judge to "quietly" before continuing to throw bombs.

"In the case of Zhu Jin being attacked with malicious insults and attempted murder, the perpetrators ranged from women to men with numerous criminal records, from malicious insults to attempted murder. The circumstances were getting worse and worse. If the police failed to solve the case immediately, the consequences would be disastrous. After investigation, it was found that in the past 100 years, there have been 133,000 recorded cases of malicious insults and attacks similar to this incident. Because they did not cause serious harm to the parties involved, many of them ended with just warnings and education."

"The social impact of these hired people's malicious revenge and insults is getting worse and worse. Both the hired people and the hired people have become more and more arrogant in recent decades. There are even professions that specialize in helping to intimidate and maliciously retaliate against people, which has caused a bad social impact."

"According to Article ..., we apply to give warning and education punishment to Zhang Ling and Qin ... who have carried out premeditated and malicious insults and attacks on Zhu Jin, and to confiscate the employment fees they received, and impose a fine of twice the employment fee on each of them, and compensate the plaintiff Zhu Jin for mental damages and lost wages of 50,000 yuan each."

"The evidence against the defendant Mi Qiang for attempted murder is clear and sufficient. According to Article ... of the Criminal Law, he should be prosecuted for attempted murder. We apply for a three-year prison sentence for the defendant Mi Qiang, confiscation of the employment fee he received, and a fine of twice the employment fee, and compensation for the plaintiff Zhu Jin's mental damages and lost wages of 60,000 yuan."

"According to Article ..., we apply for Fang Bin and Qi ..., who may have committed premeditated murder, to be sentenced to one year of out-of-prison supervision, warning and education, and to confiscate the employment fees they received, and to be fined 50,000 yuan each."

This kind of indictment is unprecedented. Apart from large economic cases, this is a rare huge fine in court. Not only was the defendant stunned, but even the people in the audience were excited about the huge amount mentioned by the prosecutor and started discussing it again. The reporters were even more busy.

“It’s impossible to compensate for so much, right?”

"I've never heard of the hiring fee being confiscated. Most of the hiring fee has been spent, right?"

“This is the first time I’ve heard of such a large amount of compensation…”

Su Mu listened to the discussion of the people around him, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. This is what they want. Nowadays, people are shouting about human rights and fairness, so they let them have human rights, and let them still just warn, educate and punish, but the money they have eaten must be spit out, and not only spit out, but also scrape off a layer of skin.

The presiding judge was silent again. "Does the defendant have any objection to the facts and charges in the indictment? You may make a statement."

"Yes, the defendant has objections to all the facts and charges in the indictment." The defendant's lawyer had a gloomy face.


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