The lawyer just received a legal aid case involving a rape suspect who brutally killed the victim.
"From a legal perspective, this case could be punishable by death. However, the suspect has no family, so the Justice Bureau specifically assigned it to me, and I am the one who will handle it at our law firm."
"And then? Are you going to sue this bad guy?"
"Of course, now that the task has been assigned, this is my duty as a lawyer."
"Then I won't help you. I absolutely cannot help bad people."
"These are two different concepts. Bad people also have human rights, which means everyone has..."
"I get it, I get it. It's just like the lawyers of ancient times. But I always feel like defending bad guys isn't very useful. At most, they die with dignity. Besides, how can we give criminal suspects dignity? How can we let them die knowing they've done something wrong? Wouldn't that make them think they're being arrogant?"
"Ji Nianqin, I mean, there are some criminal suspects who have been framed. At this time, there is the possibility that we can defend them. What if we can really save their lives and let the real criminals be punished by law? Wouldn't that be very meaningful?"
"Will that ever happen?"
Ji Nianqin curled her lips downwards, as if she was very skeptical about the lawyer's words.
"Perhaps. I'd need to read the entire file to understand. However, since you still have a lawyer's license, you're just an assistant I hired, not even a trainee lawyer. Therefore, I won't reveal the entire case to you. It's a secret. However, I can share a similar little story with you, a fantasy, I guess. All you need to do is tell me your opinion on this incident."
"What do you think? Okay, then tell me."
Ji Nianqin began to get ready, as if she couldn't wait.
"If a place is on fire, but you don't know who set the fire, how do you think you should judge it?"
"I think we can make a feint to the east and attack in the west, for example, by falsely claiming there are fingerprints on pot lids and kitchen utensils, and then wait for people to come and fingerprint them one by one."
"You mean the ancient times? That's interesting. Keep going."
"The real murderer might have scratched his hands, of course, and chose to use a hairpin or something like that, but in fact, it's not that simple. However, after the fingerprints were induced, only the murderer had no fingerprints. Isn't that strange? I can let it go right away."
The lawyer nodded slightly and did not tell Ji Nianqin that this was different from a rape case, but Ji Nianqin could probably guess it.
"Does that mean the suspect set the fire before?"
"You don't need to ask about these things in detail. Let me ask you again, if the hairpin fell into the water, would there be traces of blood?"
"Of course there is. Hairpins don't absorb blood. Even if there was, it would gradually change color in the water, and you'd know it at a glance."
"But there won't be any fish in clean water, so if there are so many fish, they must have been newly put in."
"You mean, the water is very clear? The hairpin is still clean. I have a bold guess. Someone must have wiped blood off the hairpin. The material could be jade or pearls or something like that. Just rinse it with water and the blood stain will fall off. Then, throwing the murder weapon into the water wouldn't pollute the water quality."
"And then, you deliberately bought some fish and put them in there? I understand..."
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