Extraordinary pedigree

"Where did you get the knife?" No. 7 looked at Valente in surprise and asked.

"I bought this knife from the shop next door to the courthouse, where there are many switchblade knives of this style."

Valente straightened his collar that had been pulled by No. 7 just now, and he replied nonchalantly.

If someone pays attention to Valente's gaze at this time, he will be able to see that his gaze has been staying somewhere behind the round table, and standing there is a handsome young man with blond hair and golden eyes. In the young man's hand He is holding a white writing board, and a simple line of Terran characters is written on the white writing board.

Xia Xiu had already written the origin of the knife on the writing board and told Valente, but no one else could see him at all.

True off-field assistance.

"No. 8, all this is your guess. You can't prove that the knife does not belong to Paul Colin."

After No. 7 was initially stunned, he quickly found another key point. Valente could not prove that the switchblade did not belong to Paul Colin.

"President, I think we can vote now to determine whether Paul Colin is guilty or not. I don't think this is an act worth wasting too much time. Many evidences have proven that he was a murderer." No. 7 stretched out his hand to The presiding judge stated that he wanted to hold a vote.

"Okay, then let's start the first round of voting." The presiding judge nodded in agreement.

Soon, everyone present received a blank ticket stamped by the Felony Court, with the following words printed on it:

[In my honor and conscience, my opinion: _____]

Next, judges and jurors only need to write "yes" or "no" on their votes. Writing nothing will be regarded as an abstention.

Any answer that is unfavorable to the defendant requires at least 8 votes in favor (8 votes to 4) in the first instance procedure; blank votes or invalid votes should be counted in favor of the defendant.

The first round of voting came quickly.

The jurors present folded their written votes and put them into the ballot box.

Subsequently, the presiding judge opened the vote in front of the jury.

"2 abstained, 3 voted against, and 7 voted in favor; the abstentions belong to the opposing side, now 5:7, this round of voting does not pass, you still need to discuss it." The presiding judge finished reading the voting results.

After hearing the results, No. 2, No. 3, No. 7, No. 9, No. 10, No. 11, and No. 12 all had obvious surprise and irritation on their faces.

Prejudice, discrimination, arrogance...

These are inherent in them. They do not think that a person born in a slum is worth spending too much time on them. For them, watching an entertainment program for more than 20 minutes is more meaningful than being here.

The crux of modern society is that material development has caused many people to gradually lose their personal thinking and judgment, as well as their personal independence and critical spirit due to the reduction of intellectual activities or the stylization of thinking.

"Everyone, as No. 8 said, there is only one life. If we are wrong, he will leave this world forever. It is a living life, and his heart is still beating powerfully in this land. We The reason why we stand here is for justice, so we should be more careful in making voting judgments."

As an elder, No. 4 stood up and said to everyone present.

"Let's continue the collegial discussion." The presiding judge also stood up and motioned to those present to continue the collegial discussion.

"To prove that the child is innocent, several previous evidence points must be overturned."

Number 2 said at this time that he was a white-collar worker.

"First, the testimony of witness Jim, who heard the quarrel between old Colin and Paul; second, the testimony of Mrs. Alice, who saw the figure in the fight, and that figure was obviously Paul Colin. Based on the evidence, Jim once said that he saw Paul fleeing, and there was no doubt that Paul Colin was the murderer!"

After listening to the words of No. 2, everyone present subconsciously turned to Valente at No. 8. They had already subconsciously identified Valente as a supporter of the innocent party.

Valente started to lower his head and thought for a while. He had actually discovered the loophole in the first evidence point. The old man's traveling speed itself was one of the doubts. It was impossible for the other party to cross the road and reach the old man in half a minute. Where Colin died, the opponent's feet did not allow the opponent to do that.

The old man was lying, but Valente couldn't find out his motive for lying now. Time was too tight.

Valente looked up at the blond young man in the corner of the round table who only he could see. He now needed the other party to ask something from the old man.

Xia Xiu nodded understandingly. He made a gesture of understanding towards Valente, and then he started to walk out. Now they needed to use a little "outside the game" to ask something from the old man.

After Xia Xiu left, Valente said to the presiding judge:

"President, can I ask for a topographic map of old Colin's house?"

"Of course there is no problem."

The presiding judge quickly went to the information area to find the topographic map of old Colin's house. He handed the topographic map he found to Valente, and after Valente took the topographic map, he flattened it directly on the On the round table.

Valente took out a pen beside him, then circled a dot in two places, and then drew a straight line.

Everyone watched his operation silently.

"Everyone, you must have seen during the trial that Mr. Jim is an old man with leg problems. When he walked to the witness seat, it took him more than a minute, while a normal person could do it in more than ten seconds. We’ve arrived.”

Valente pointed to the two dots on the terrain map. One of the dots was the old Colin's house, and the other dot was the temporary settlement built by Jim.

"Old Colin's house is on the far left of the road, and Jim lives in the middle of the road on the opposite side. Even if we choose the straight-line distance, according to the scale conversion, this distance is at least more than 20 meters, and he only took him half a minute for this distance? "

Valente looked around at everyone present, and he asked them:

"Do you believe what he says?"

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the other side.

Jim was whistling happily and walking towards the outside of the court. At this time, the heavy rain outside began to lighten up. The originally huge raindrops had turned into wisps of rain. Jim tightened his shabby robe and walked into a small In the alley, when he first stepped into the alley, something enveloped his head, blocking the rain falling from the sky.

Jim looked up at the sky above him. What shrouded him was a black umbrella. His eyes followed the hand holding the umbrella. A handsome young man with blond hair and golden eyes was reflected in his eyes. He didn't know when the other person was. He didn't even feel the person holding the umbrella close to him, but the other person was standing next to him.

"Mr. Jim, can I ask you something?"

The handsome face of the blond young man was showing a gentle and polite smile, and his golden vertical pupils reflected Jim's fearful expression.

"Gulong——"

Jim couldn't help but swallowed. The intimidation exuded by the blond young man in front of him made him tremble. He was like a prey being targeted by an apex predator at this moment. His heart was floating in a sea of ​​fear. With.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not a bad person." Xia Xiu comforted him with a smile.

"You...what do you want to ask?" Jim felt his legs swinging wildly, as if he had lost control of his legs.

"Well, my question is simple."

The blond young man's smile became even warmer, and he asked the old man softly:

"Old man, why did you give false evidence?"

Dong dong dong dong dong dong——

Jim's heart began to beat crazily, and those dazzling vertical pupils occupied his field of vision. From his sight, two suns seemed to rise in the sky. A sea of ​​fear enveloped him, sinking him and making him sink. Feeling suffocated.

The truth must be told! ! !

Otherwise you will die! ! !

"I, I, I just want to earn some extra money. The police station offers bonuses for witnesses who arrest murderers."

"And...and, the way those people looked at me...made me feel like I had found meaning."

Jim's swaying legs finally couldn't hold on anymore. They overturned like a broken ship overturned by the waves. The old man fell hard to the ground. There was a warm feeling in his crotch, and the pungent temperature dropped from his crotch. It came out there.

The old man raised his head tremblingly. He wanted to look at the expression of the owner of the two-wheeled sun. Then he discovered that the two-wheeled sun standing above him had no reflection at all.

"Sure enough, responsibility is something we expect others to fulfill, not something we want to fulfill ourselves."

"But I still advise you to fulfill your responsibilities. After all, your life, which you don't know when it will end, is too empty. If you sell everything inside, it will really be empty."

The figure of the blond young man gradually disappeared, leaving only the old man shivering in the rain.

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In the collegial room.

The rain outside the window began to stop, and the debate in the collegial room continued.

"The second testimony point is Mrs. Alice. She actually did not commit perjury, but she did not see clearly the true appearance of the struggler."

Valente's impassioned words continued to echo in the collegial room.

"There are indentations from the glasses. There are obvious indentations on the bridge of Mrs. Alice's nose. This shows that Mrs. Alice had the habit of wearing glasses earlier, but she took them off during the court session today."

"Please carefully recall Mrs. Alice's testimony. What she said is: on the night of the incident, she was lying in bed and tossing and turning, so she planned to open the window to get some air. Unexpectedly, when she opened the window, she saw two people fighting in the room. Among the people together, one of them seemed to be holding a knife."

"Everyone, when a person is lying in bed and resting alone, he most likely does not wear glasses. Mrs. Alice's testimony was expressed in uncertain words in several places, which proves that she actually did not know the person she saw that night. Could it be Paul Colin."

"All Mrs. Alice is sure of is that the person who committed the crime was the size of Paul Colin."

After Valente finished his argument, he paused to take a breath. Many jurors were moved by Valente's words, but No. 7 seemed obviously not convinced by these arguments.

Valente's argument is logically self-consistent, but there are too many coincidences in it.

"The premise of your argument is that Mr. Jim committed perjury, and you have mentioned so many coincidences, so you might as well put these coincidences on Mr. Jim. Maybe Mr. Jim was too nervous to say in court What about his own testimony? Maybe he actually spent more time at that time, but he deliberately made it shorter in order to prevent people from judging his lameness?"

"People with physical disabilities are always a little sensitive, and we should be considerate of this." No. 7 expressed his opinion to everyone.

As No. 7 finished speaking, the conference room fell into brief silence again.

"Let's... proceed to the fourth round of voting." No. 1 raised his hand and reported to the presiding judge.

This is already the fourth vote in the conference room.

Second vote: 4 opposed, 6 in favor, 2 abstained.

The third vote: 4 opposed, 5 in favor, and 3 abstained.

Regardless of whether there is guilt or not, the votes must be unanimous. Even if they are inconsistent, one party must have an overwhelming victory, that is, a special majority vote.

At this moment, when the jurors have large differences of opinion and are unable to reach unanimous agreement or a special majority vote, a jury deadlock has occurred.

The presiding judge is actually already thinking about whether to re-select the jury or go through the entire review and approval process again.

[Dingling bell--]

The emergency phone in the conference room suddenly rang, interrupting the solemn voting. The presiding judge frowned in displeasure. He went to the emergency phone and connected it.

"whats the matter?"

"President, there were special circumstances. Jim, one of the original witnesses, suddenly surrendered. He told us that he perjured himself for the police station's bonus." The staff member on the other end of the phone quickly reported to the presiding judge.

The presiding judge was momentarily confused by this sudden message.

"Okay, I understand."

The presiding judge hung up the phone with a strange tone. Then he carefully considered his tone, and then told the twelve jurors present about Jim's perjury. After hearing this, the jurors all looked at each other, and the scene became a little awkward for a while. Especially for Seven.

"Ahem, cough, let's continue the voting." The presiding judge coughed and continued.

Now that we have reached this point, voting cannot stop.

The fourth vote ended quickly, and the presiding judge slowly read out the results of the vote.

"Twelve votes against, Paul Colin, not guilty!"

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When Valente Bernard walked out of the court, he saw the familiar man and dog sitting on the bench of the court.

Valente walked towards the man and the dog.

"A drink for you."

When Valente sat down next to the blond young man, the other party handed him a bottle of cold drink.

Valente accepted the cold drink handed over by the blond young man without any courtesy. After unscrewing the bottle cap, he started to drink wildly with his head raised. He was basically the one who spoke the most in the collegial room.

"You should be a juror next time." After finishing his drink, Valente replied to Xia Xiu who was smiling at the side.

"Democracy can only work in the hands of smart people." Xia Xiu replied with a shrug.

"Procedural justice is always prone to problems. Abraham, you said you are from the Kingdom of Heaven, so I want to ask, what would happen if the supernatural Kingdom of Heaven interferes with the secular world?"

Valente asked the blond young man beside him.

After hearing Valente's question, Xia Xiu stood up from the bench and took out a coin from his arms.

"Heads means guilty, tails means innocent."

Under Valente's gaze, Xia Xiu tossed the coin in his hand upwards, and the coin began to roll upward against the sunshine after the rain.

Snapped--

The blond young man stretched out his right hand and held the coin straight.

"The good will be saved, the evil will be punished!"

Looking at the blond young man's fisted right hand, Valente seemed to understand something, and he asked him:

"How can the world understand this arrogance?"

The clenched hand expresses the absolute justice that the Kingdom of Heaven believes in, and when the Kingdom of Heaven comes to control this justice, how should the world see the front and back of the coin in the fist.

"So the current situation is-"

At this time, the sun suddenly shines, and a rainbow appears behind the blond young man after the rain, and the holy light shines on him.

“The extraordinary returns to heaven, and the earthly returns to earth.”

The blond young man said.

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