In the name of love

Defendant now in court. "

The court was noisy again, and almost everyone, including the judges, was talking about each other.Sitting on the defense bench, Yulu suddenly felt a little emotional.

When I was in school, Yuli would sometimes watch homicide albums or movies with friends.

When watching those movies, the audience is like an omniscient god. The story can easily go back to any point in time, peep into any scene, and even enter the heart of any character through the author's description.Except for the murderer, everything in this story seems to be reversible, and people also believe that everything conveyed in the story is "true".

However, this is often not the case in reality. Once time passes, everything in the past can no longer be restored.Needless to say, people's memories and descriptions, even forensics, fingerprints, audio recordings, or ballistic comparisons, those seemingly objective photos, surveillance video images, are also selected and leftover fragments, and they are just fragments of the past.

Nothing alone can be called "truth".Just as time cannot be turned back, the truth is lost the moment the time passes, and there is no way to restore it.

What people often say about "restoring the truth" is nothing but wishful thinking.

Even Ji Lan, who is now talking in court, said such a reasonable "story", Yulu couldn't help thinking, is this really the truth?Or are they, who are also defenders of the defendant, just wishful thinking?

We are just looking for an "answer" that satisfies us - Yulu thinks of what Ji Lan said to him at the beginning, and only feels that he has a deeper understanding of that sentence now.

"Lu Xing, who successfully blamed all the crimes on his colleagues, quickly resigned from the activity center within a week after the incident. While the prosecution was busy investigating Ye Chang's criminal evidence, he left his grandmother who raised him and quietly fled abroad. , away from this sad place for him, away from the heinous crime he committed."

"The above is what the defense believes is the 'truth' of the whole matter."

Ji Lan put away her command pen and stood in front of the defense bench.Suddenly there was no sound in the courtroom. Everyone including Ai Ting in the prosecutor's seat lingered on Ji Lan's words, and no one had the leeway to speak out.

In the name of love three five

"The above is what the defense believes is the 'truth' of the whole matter."

Ji Lan put away her command pen and stood in front of the defense bench.Suddenly there was no sound in the courtroom. Everyone including Ai Ting in the prosecutor's seat lingered on Ji Lan's words, and no one had the leeway to speak out.

"……interesting."

Ai Ting was the one who spoke first, and he closed his eyes in the second half of Ji Lan's speech, as if he was deep in thought.Yulu watched him straighten up from the prosecutor's seat, and after a while, he stretched out his hand and clapped briefly twice, like applause.

"It's amazing." Ai Ting said while taking pictures: "I have to say that I admire the defense lawyers. Under such rigorous evidence collection by the prosecution, they can find another way to make up such a wonderful story."

Ai Ting stood on the table from the prosecutor's seat, and walked slowly to the center of the court.

"I think one thing must be made clear first. Many people misunderstand prosecutors, especially me, and defenders must think the same way. If they think that the job of prosecutors is to sanction criminals, then they must hate defenders. All the evidence is It’s best to point to the defendant’s guilt and no one to refute our prosecutor’s argument.”

"But I have to tell the defender that the opposite is true. I have been in this position for more than 20 years, and I have always hoped that the defender standing opposite me will do everything possible to prove the innocence of the defendant I am prosecuting."

Ai Ting stood up straight, and Yulu noticed that his expression was solemn and sad, which was quite different from the one he had objected to for no reason just now.The badge of Tianping faintly flashed on his chest, and Ai Ting's figure also grew taller.

"Only when the defender exhausts all methods in front of me, no matter whether it is positive defense or sophistry, and there is no way to overturn my accusation against the defendant, can I feel at ease that the defendant I am prosecuting has conclusive evidence."

Ai Ting suddenly raised the corners of his lips.

"It's a pity that I have fought in the public prosecution court for more than 20 years, but none of the defense lawyers can do such a basic thing. So I say that I admire the defenders this time, lawyer Ji and lawyer Yu, thanks to you, I can feel more at ease sending the defendant in this case to prison to atone for all the crimes he committed."

Yulu looked at Ji Lan sharply.Ai Ting walked back to the prosecutor's seat, pressed the table and sat back.

"I think the defender should have thought about it. According to the 'story' of the defense, how should we explain the problem of the surveillance video?"

Ji Lan turned her head and exchanged glances with Yu Lv, both of them saw anxiety on each other's faces.Ai Ting's attitude was more relaxed than expected, even a little cheerful.

Yulu thought that he would not be an M like himself, the corners of his lips would rise as he got frustrated.

Ji Lan seemed to have the same doubts as Yu Lv. After thinking for a while, he replaced Ai Ting and walked to the center of the court.

"Please take a look in court. This is the surveillance video that the police retrieved from the Youth Activity Center that afternoon. It started at three o'clock and went through three, four, five, six, seven, and eight hours, a total of six hours. "

Ji Lan explained slowly.

"And I think we can first rule out the possibility that the surveillance video footage was modified afterwards. The police arrived at the activity center at six o'clock that day, and according to the search and seizure records in the file, the police inspected and copied the files on the spot at seven o'clock on the same day. In less than half an hour, the files are all under the strict surveillance of the police, I don’t think either Ye Chang or Lu Xing has the opportunity and technology to tamper with the video footage in such a short period of time.”

Ji Lan pressed the play button, and Yulu and the others had seen the entrance to the toilet countless times in front of them.But this time Ji Lan stopped playing as soon as it played, and stopped at the front position.

"So what's going on here? Court, please look at this picture carefully now, no, it's not an image in the picture."

As if he had predicted the judges' reactions, Ji Lan reminded them in a humorous tone.

"When most people read the surveillance video images, they tend to just stare at the images, and don't pay special attention to the timeline above the screen. It's the same with me. I have watched this video screen at least a hundred times, and I have never found anything wrong. place."

Ji Lan's command pen slowly moved to the upper left of the screen.

"But thanks to my observant companion, he told me about the paradox of this surveillance video, and deciphered this seemingly unbreakable evidence."

Yulu was taken aback, she didn't expect Ji Lan to mention herself at this time.To be honest, Yulu blushed a little, he was really embarrassed to say that he suddenly realized this because he had watched too many adulterous videos of Ji Lan and his elder brother.Otherwise, he, a rough and rough uncle, has nothing to do with subtle observation skills.

"Hmph, I thought you were going to say something!"

Yulu heard Ai Ting's "chick", he clasped his hands and ten fingers, and leaned back on the chair of the prosecutor's seat.

"You mean, the video was missed for nearly one minute? But what does that one minute represent? The defender is not trying to claim that people other than Ye Chang used this one minute to leave the toilet, right?"

"I don't think the prosecution can deny the existence of this possibility."

Ji Lan pushed back forcefully. He walked back to the defense bench and took out a document.

"In court, please allow the defender to provide some additional information. This is a report issued by the manufacturer responsible for contracting the installation of the surveillance video recorder in the activity center. The surveillance video recorder was completely normal when it left the factory. Although there is a short transition time, then It just makes the screen flicker when the picture is transferred to the file, and it is blank for at most one or two seconds."

Ji Lan held the information in one hand and explained slowly and patiently.

"However, in October last year, during the regular inspection of the surveillance video system, there was a fault repair record. The record shows that some video recorders were completely shut down during the regular inspection. The CPU is too old to be used, causing the system to overheat and crash, and the details are stated in the report.”

Yulu can actually understand that most of the community surveillance cameras in T City are pretending to look good.Yulu has handled some car accident cases before. After a car accident, many people will ask the police to review the surveillance video of the intersection.

However, the results of a review are often unsatisfactory. Destroyed and malfunctioning are commonplace, or the camera is turned to the other side of the road by a bad boy, or it has not been turned on from the beginning due to community power saving measures.

The few that are working normally, as Ji Lan said, because of the outdated memory and computing software, the files are prone to problems, and most of them cannot be read at all.

Rather than maintaining the peace of the community, Yulu sometimes thinks that those VCRs are just pretending to be safe.Just like worshiping gods, people always hope that there is something superior to look after them.

It is a sense of spiritual stability. As for whether the gods actually come to clock in for work, it is a question of the gods' conscience.

"The scheduled inspection was on Wednesday. According to the maintenance report, the technicians of the manufacturer believed that if the surveillance video system of the event center was to operate normally, the entire device had to be replaced with a new one. However, the director present did not agree due to the budget, and was still in maintenance. On the form, there is a signature that does not agree to replace the new equipment."

"Then it's strange