"Now, please answer my question immediately. Did you see the victim on the night of the crime? Did you have dinner with him?"

Zou Ting asked Lian Juntai in the dock in a very oppressive manner, but Lian Juntai was not surprised at all. To be honest, he did not expect the photo just now.

We already have this photo and the confessions of several people. If we insist that these people all gave false confessions, it will be impossible to convince people without evidence.

"I did have dinner with my brother on the night of the incident."

The whole audience was in an uproar when these words were spoken, which overturned all the previous arguments made by Lawyer Zhou.

"I'm so sorry, Lawyer Zhou, I hid this from you because I was really afraid." Lian Juntai apologized to Lawyer Zhou sincerely, and then said to the presiding judge, "Your Honor, I would like to recount the circumstances of the night of the incident, is that okay?"

"permit."

"I was busy on the construction site all day. I didn't expect my brother, a wanted criminal, to be so bold as to come to South City to find me. My brother said that my father sent someone to secretly send him to South City and he had avoided all surveillance.

Knowing that my brother was coming, of course I was afraid that the migrant workers at the construction site would see us, so I gave them red envelopes and let them have a holiday. I also asked the chef to prepare a few more dishes and sent the chef away.

Because my brother hadn't had a full meal for a long time, he ate particularly happily that night. After eating, I said I would take him for a short walk to digest the food and then rest. During the walk, I persuaded my brother to turn himself in.

My brother reacted strongly when he heard this, and we had an argument. I wanted to take my brother to surrender, but my brother resisted very violently. He cursed me angrily, saying that as his own brother, I did not help him, but instead wanted to send him to prison.

Because we couldn't reach an agreement, it turned into a physical conflict. My brother wanted to knock me down and run away, and I pushed him in resistance, which happened to push him into the foundation pit.

When I saw him being pushed into the pit, I panicked, because there were no street lights in that area and it was dark, and I didn't know what happened to my brother after I pushed him in. I ran away out of fear.

The next day, nothing unusual was found, and the foundation pit was filled in according to the original construction schedule. I thought I pushed my brother into the pit, and he climbed out and ran away. I didn’t expect that…”

At this point, Lian Juntai covered his face and burst into tears. Although they were not at the scene, Lu Tingyun and Leng Qing, who were just watching the live broadcast, had to sigh that Lian Juntai really has great acting skills.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Judge, my client never mentioned this to me before." Lawyer Zhou continued, "My client is indeed guilty of concealing something, but he pushed the victim into the foundation pit. My client was acting in self-defense at the time. Running away after getting into trouble is also consistent with a person's panicked mentality."

"I would like to refute the defense lawyer's opinion." Zou Ting immediately questioned, "This is the construction drawing at the time. Generally, a six-story building needs to dig a 2.5-meter foundation pit. And according to the investigation, it rained the day before the incident, and the soil was mixed with water.

Falling into a pit from a height of 2.5 meters, coupled with rain and mud, would have caused him to have a 'soft landing'. In this case, even if the victim was injured, the injuries would have been very light. I don't believe that the suspect has no common sense at all and would have panicked so much that he didn't even dare to look and fled in a hurry.

Logically speaking, as his injuries were minor and the victim was tall, he could have crawled out by himself, but the autopsy results showed that he died from being buried alive, and based on the time of death, he died within less than half an hour after the meal.

According to the suspect's own account, he pushed the victim into the foundation pit, which directly led to the victim's death. Generally speaking, the process of being buried alive takes about eight minutes.

During these eight minutes, the victim would definitely call for help, and eight minutes was enough for the suspect to calm down, but he did not save his brother. Moreover, Lawyer Zhou has been talking about frame-up, and I am following your logic.

The suspect pushed the victim into a foundation pit and ran away. The victim did not climb out and was suffocated to death. His body should have been in the foundation pit, but his body was in a suitcase, so it must have been man-made.

If the suspect was unaware of what happened afterwards, and someone happened to see the victim being pushed down, and then killed the victim, and then dug out his body and put it in the suitcase, this would be a waste of time. He only needs to call the police and the police will arrest the suspect.

So the logic of someone framing him doesn’t make sense. In addition, the suspect’s hair was found in the suitcase, so the perpetrator can only be the suspect, and there can’t be anyone else. "

"The prosecutor insisted that it was my client who committed the crime, and also said that if someone had framed the victim, they would have buried the victim alive, dug up the body, put it in a suitcase and buried it again, which would have been superfluous and unnecessary.

Since this logic doesn't make sense in your mind, why can you apply this unreasonable logic to my client?

Whether it was premeditated murder or accidental killing, the victim was buried in a foundation pit. This is a crime that can be concealed and is close to perfect. Why did my client go to such lengths?"

"This kind of unnecessary and superfluous behavior will be incomprehensible to anyone except the perpetrator himself. Just like the suspect's behavior, if it was premeditated murder, why did he invite the deceased to dinner before committing the crime?

If it was self-defense and he had no intention of killing anyone, how could he run away with a clear conscience and not go to see his brother who fell into the foundation pit all night?

Going back to the beginning, if it was a deliberate murder, there was no motive for the suspect at all, so these things happened to the suspect, and to normal people, there were many illogical things about them.

But what if we look at it from another angle, he has some kind of belief or obsessive-compulsive disorder in his heart? Is he trying to imitate the death row inmates and give the deceased a meal before his death?

And his motive for killing, maybe it wasn't for himself, maybe he joined a church or a mysterious organization and was instructed to do so?"

"Your Honor, the prosecutor has now begun to talk nonsense because she can't find a motive for murder. I request that you stop her nonsense." Lawyer Zhou quickly appealed to the presiding judge.

"Your Honor, what I just said was not nonsense. I have theoretical basis for it. Please allow me to finish." Zou Ting said.

"Go on, prosecutor."

"Thank you, Judge."

After another fruitless interruption, Lawyer Zhou was obviously angry and slammed the pen in his hand heavily on the table.

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