Disciplinary Guidelines

This sudden recording disrupted Wang Tao's plan. According to his original thinking, Liu Qiang's testimony was ambiguous and he was drunk, so the testimony could easily be invalidated.

But now a recording pops up out of nowhere, and things are completely different.

Wang Tao quickly figured out what he had missed. He carefully recalled the short recording just now, trying hard to find some flaws in it.

Before the court session, he had seen all the surveillance videos of the day of the incident.If Liu Qiang falsifies the recording, there will inevitably be a discrepancy between the recording and the monitoring screen. The problem is that Liu Qiang's recording is too short, and it sounds like more than a minute. It is difficult for Wang Tao to come up with specific details for a while.

He was anxious, but he happened to see Jiang Heng from the corner of his eye, and suddenly thought of something, and asked in a low voice: "Did you admit a lot of patients on the day when the incident happened?"

"Yes." Ji Yao said, "What's wrong?"

"That's right." Wang Tao said, "His recording was not made that day."

Before Ji Yao could react, Wang Tao had already raised his hand to signal.

"We have doubts." Wang Tao said: "We have evidence to prove that this recording document is forged."

"How is it possible!" Liu Qiang said, "Don't talk nonsense."

"On the day of the incident, at the same time that Mr. Li Wen was admitted to the hospital, a fire broke out in an old building area in Shanghai due to the aging circuit. The scale of the fire was not small. One died and twelve were injured." There was a series of car accidents at the intersection, and two people were injured—both incidents happened near the hospital where my client was, and their hospital was used as a receiving hospital, and there were ambulances transporting patients that day."

"This is also reflected in the surveillance video." Wang Tao said: "The emergency department kept sending new patients that day. It is true that Mr. Liu Qiang recorded the sound of pushing the bed, but you are recording at the door of the emergency room. Why is there no ambulance? Sirens?"

Liu Qiang's face suddenly became ugly.

"Your recording is a total of 26 minute and 45 seconds, and it takes about [-] to [-] seconds for an ambulance to transfer a patient to the emergency room." Wang Tao said: "So according to the video, when you communicated with our client, the cart that passed by nearby In terms of numbers, you should have at least two sirens on your recording."

Liu Qiang subconsciously turned his head to look at Jiang Heng, wanting to seek some help from his lawyer, but Jiang Heng straightened the documents in his hand without saying a word.

Ji Yao couldn't help but also glanced at Jiang Heng, wanting to see how he would react, but Jiang Heng didn't give Liu Qiang half of his eyes, but turned his head slightly, and whispered something to Li Linghua.

In fact, Liu Qiang could have said something, for example, the phone was in his pocket, the recording was not clear, or the environment he was in was too narrow, and there were too many people around him, so he couldn't clearly capture the sound of the police siren.

But he was already guilty and flustered, and he didn't want to be suspected by Li Linghua, so he rushed to testify like a duck, but now he was exposed on the spot, and he was so scared that he forgot his words.

Li Linghua's complexion was even worse than Liu Qiang's. She stared at Liu Qiang's back with wide eyes, unable to utter a word.

The collegial panel whispered a few words to each other and decided to adjourn temporarily to investigate and verify the evidence.

Liu Qiang was treated in isolation by them, and Li Linghua couldn't stay in the room for a moment, so she stood up suddenly, clutching the small box in her hand, and quickly left through the back door.

Jiang Heng stood up and chased after him.

Ji Yao's heart was still pounding, he touched his heart, and sighed with lingering fear.

"It's all right." Wang Tao comforted: "If the witness forges evidence, the authenticity of the testimony will also be erased. If there is no accident, the lawsuit should not be lost."

"Why did he forge evidence." Ji Yao said, "Li Linghua doesn't want compensation either."

"People are very complicated. When they have something that they really don't want to lose, they will take risks." Wang Tao said, "Liu Qiang's whole life is attached to Li Linghua. If Li Linghua knows that he deliberately delayed Li Wen's rescue, Li Linghua won't let him go. He held back and had to do this."

Ji Yao sighed, feeling that he had never been so tired before.

"I'm going out to get some air." Ji Yao said.

"You go." Wang Tao said, "I'm waiting for news here."

Ji Yao left the courtroom through the back door. He wanted to stand casually in the corridor, but as soon as he went out, he heard movement next door.

He glanced at it and found that the door of the lounge next door was not closed tightly. Li Linghua was holding something in her arms and crying loudly. Jiang Heng stood beside her and handed her a tissue.

"I didn't expect that he was really so cruel." Li Linghua said sadly: "I thought that the most he wanted was money. I didn't expect him to really have the heart to see Xiaowen die—then It's his own son!"

Just 10 minutes ago, Li Linghua even took chances, but now, she can no longer turn a blind eye to the facts in front of her.

Before that, when she was so determined to ask Liu Qiang about the situation over and over again, she might have already had a premonition in her heart, but she couldn't and couldn't believe that the person next to her pillow who used to face her day and night was really so cruel.

"He didn't participate in the factual murder, so he probably didn't have the guts." Jiang Heng said objectively: "He probably took this opportunity to deliberately conceal the information of his illness in order to delay the treatment. If he succeeds, he didn't kill himself, so he failed. , he didn't lose anything."

Li Linghua cried so much that her makeup was all over her face, her eyes were red, her fingers sank into the box convulsively.

"Then is there a way to make him pay the price? Can he be considered an accomplice to murder?" Li Linghua said: "My Xiaowen can't die in vain, and he can't just say it wasn't intentional."

Jiang Heng handed her another tissue with a very gentle tone: "I know, don't worry."

The collegial panel quickly deliberated on the result. The fire in the old city on the day of the incident was a big news. It was listed on the local hot search for several days at that time. As long as it was checked with the time and surveillance cameras, it was easy to come to the result.

It is a fact that Liu Qiang falsified evidence, so the testimony was also invalidated. According to the principle of innocence and the results of POCT, the court finally classified the medical dispute as an accident.

In the second half, Li Linghua was depressed throughout the whole process. She finally found out that the real culprit was someone else, so she stopped clinging to Ji Yao and expressed her willingness not to appeal any more.

After the trial was over, Jiang Heng and Li Nan sent Li Linghua away. Accompanied by Wang Tao, Ji Yao went to go through the formalities of releasing bail pending trial. After an extra hour of tossing, it was dark when he left.

It's funny to say that it was obviously only in the second court, but when he went out again, Ji Yao actually felt a kind of ease of "becoming a man again".

Standing on the steps at the gate of the court, he couldn't help stretching.

Wang Tao came out of the court one step behind him, and couldn't help being happy when he saw this: "You feel better?"

"Okay." Ji Yao said with a smile: "But it's over, I'm almost suffocated to death in the past two months, and it's always a mess in my dreams."

"You don't have to worry about it after that." Wang Tao handed over the closing statement in his briefcase to Ji Yao, and said with emotion, "Go home and have a good sleep."

"Hey, that's right." Ji Yao asked, "What about Liu Qiang who gave false testimony?"

"No one has given him a bond, and he has already been detained. The procuratorate will file a public prosecution and pursue him for perjury on the basis of obstructing judicial investigation." Wang Tao couldn't help laughing, and said with emotion: "Speaking of this, Jiang Heng is worthy of him. The teacher's favorite student, his brain turns really fast."

"What do you mean?" Ji Yao asked.

Wang Tao waved at him, beckoning him to talk while walking.

"This case is actually not complicated at all, not to mention the lawyer, even you can understand it." Wang Tao said: "The complicated thing is that the victim—that is, Li Linghua is unwilling to accept the reality, and Liu Qiang's behavior is difficult to be criminalized. Punishment standard. He was drunk and under a special attack. Even if Li Linghua reacted and wanted to claim that he deliberately delayed the rescue time, he could not prove that he was malicious, and it would be difficult to determine his criminal responsibility. So Jiang Heng changed his method , to settle both matters."

"I said before that he chose criminal proceedings instead of civil ones for your convenience, but now it seems that it is more than that." Wang Tao said: "The crime of perjury is limited to criminal proceedings, not civil ones. He If he insists on a criminal prosecution, he is probably waiting for Liu Qiang here. Either he refuses to testify and loses the case, or it is like this, no matter what the situation is, Li Linghua can see the facts clearly. And I don’t think she is a medical trouble, I just don't want my son to die in vain, this kind of person says it's difficult to do, but it's easy to do, if you find out the situation, she won't bite you."

Ji Yao suddenly remembered what Jiang Heng had said to him when he and Jiang Heng met for the last time in the hospital.

"So, he actually didn't want to send me to the police?" Ji Yao's expression was a little strange.

"Then it has to be sent in. The facts are not clear, and the court doesn't judge people randomly." Wang Tao couldn't help laughing: "Don't say, he is not bad, he is worthy of Li Linghua, and he even helped you, otherwise You can’t afford the compensation alone—the young people of today are really stronger than the waves.”