noffsinger Chapter 1380 The law will not sympathize with you just because you are pitiful.
Chapter 1380 The law will not sympathize with you just because you are pitiful.
Meng Qi said seriously.
"Attorney Chen, what you said is incorrect. Every person in this world has a logic to their existence. Every word we say and every action we take has a logic to it. If we violate the logic, then the matter will not make sense."
Your Honor and Jury, please note that my client is 170 cm tall and weighs 132 pounds, while the defendant, Ding Xie, is 180 cm tall and weighed 197 pounds at the time, almost twice the height of my client.
If he's determined to die, can my client stop him? Besides, he's known in the triad as the infamous "Crazy Tiger Ding Xie," daring to fight and kill, while my client is just a financial company employee. Would he dare to threaten triad members?
The defense attorney said that my client did this to stop Ting Hai from committing suicide. I would like to ask the defense attorney a question.
The bamboo tube beneath my client's feet was about 2.4 to 2.5 meters from the edge of the rooftop. Was the defendant, Ding Xie, about to jump from just over two meters away? Was he a Shaolin disciple, a kung fu master?
A burst of laughter erupted from the audience, leaving Chen Mingren speechless for a moment.
Ding Xie's face turned bright red, and Meng Qi suddenly straightened his face and roared loudly.
"Ding Hai, you owed someone 120,000, and not only did you not pay it back, you also harbored malicious intentions and pushed them off the rooftop. What is this if not premeditated murder?"
Ding Xie suddenly roared.
"I didn't, how could I kill Ah Tian? We're good brothers..."
Chen Mingren said seriously.
"Your Honor, all of this is based on the prosecution's conjecture and speculation. There is no evidence whatsoever to prove that my client pushed Fang Zhentian down..."
"No, I have witnesses, Your Honor, and I request that my witnesses be allowed to appear in court."
Luna tapped her gavel.
"I agree to the witness appearing in court."
The first to appear in court were two employees of a securities company.
"Hello sir, please introduce yourselves to the court."
“Your Honor, my name is Chen Qiubai. I am an employee of a securities company and also Mr. Ding Xie’s stock trader.”
"My name is Liu Xiuzhong, and I work at a securities company."
Ding Xie's eyes widened, and he was about to roar when Chen Mingren glared at him and shook his head. Only then did he lower his head and act docile.
"Chen Qiubai, please tell me what happened that day."
"That day, the stock market plummeted to rock bottom, and the securities market was in complete chaos. Mr. Ding Xie's stocks were not only trapped, but he also used ten times leverage, resulting in a loss of nearly one million."
Just then, Mr. Fang arrived. He came to Mr. Ding to collect his debt, saying that his wife was about to give birth and they had no money at all. Mr. Ding ignored him and turned to leave, but Mr. Fang followed him.
“I was also on the rooftop at the time. When I heard the arguing, I saw Mr. Ding pointing at another man and cursing him. That man was so anxious that his face turned red, and he kept begging Mr. Ding.”
Mr. Ding is a member of a gang and is usually quite fierce. I was afraid he would find out I was on the rooftop, so I secretly tried to sneak down. Then I heard a loud scream. I turned around and saw Mr. Ding looking stunned, staring at his own hands.
Ding Hai could no longer hold back and roared.
“You’re lying, you’re all lying.”
Chen Mingren quickly stopped Ding Xie and stood up to speak.
“Mr. Chen Qiubai, you also said that the stock market was extremely chaotic at the time, so how could you have heard clearly the conversation between Mr. Fang and Mr. Ding? You should know that if you had misspoken even one word in the conversation you heard, the meaning could have been completely reversed.”
Chen Qiubai looked at Chen Mingren with a strange expression.
“Sir, I was standing right next to Mr. Ding at the time. How could I have misheard at such a close distance?”
Chen Mingren looked at him and suddenly smiled. He reached out and picked up a radio, turned it on, and tuned it to a channel. Noisy shouting came from inside. Then he stood next to his assistant, who understood and said to him.
"Mr. Chen, what are we having for lunch today? Besides vegetables, would you like some rice?"
"I don't want food, I want to eat rice."
"So, do you want food or not?"
Chen Mingren turned off the radio.
"Your Honor, Jury, the volume on this radio is the same as the volume we heard at the stock market that day. Mr. Chen, I would like to ask you, what did my assistant and I just say?"
Chen Qiubai was completely bewildered.
"Your assistant asked if you wanted to go begging? How could a lawyer like you go out begging?"
Chen Mingren suppressed a laugh and clapped his hands lightly.
"Thank you, Mr. Chen."
"Your Honor, with such a noisy environment and us standing so close, this gentleman has completely misinterpreted what my assistant and I meant. So, please think about it: back in the stock market, didn't we also misunderstand the conversation between Mr. Ding Hai and Mr. Fang?"
Some jurors nodded solemnly, while others scribbled something in their notebooks.
Chen Mingren turned to face Liu Xiuzhong.
"Mr. Liu Xiuzhong, is that right? I'd like to ask you, what were you doing on the rooftop that day?"
Liu Xiuzhong sighed.
“My client lost all his money and wants to kill me, so I’m going to hide on the rooftop.”
"So you were also panicking at the time, right?"
"Yes."
"So when my client and Mr. Fang arrived on the rooftop, you subconsciously assumed that your client had come to see you, right?"
"Oh? Yes, yes, my client is just as fierce as Mr. Ding, and I'm very afraid of him."
"So you only heard a bit of the argument, and didn't actually see my client push Mr. Fang downstairs, is that right?"
"You subconsciously drew yourself into this argument, so you imagined Ding Hai pushing Fang Zhentian down the stairs, but you didn't actually see it. You only saw Ding Hai staring blankly at his own hands, is that right?"
"At that time, oh no, at that time I saw..."
Chen Mingren demanded in a stern voice.
All I need is for you to answer yes or no.
Liu Xiuzhong nodded dejectedly.
"I did not see with my own eyes Mr. Ding push that man downstairs."
Chen Mingren clapped his hands lightly.
"Thank you!"
"Your Honor, I have finished asking my questions."
Meng Qi slowly stood up and walked to Fang Ting.
"Mrs. Fang, please forgive me, but I must ask you about what you saw in the stock market that day. I know this memory is tormenting for you, but I think you must also want to seek justice for your husband, right?"
Fang Ting stood up and slowly nodded.
"Then please tell me, what did you see outside the stock market that day?"
Fang Ting gritted her teeth and glared at Ding Xie.
“That day, after listening to the radio, Ah-Tian stormed out of the house. I knew he had lent all our savings to Ting-Hsieh. I was afraid he would impulsively go to Ting-Hsieh. Ting-Hsieh is a completely unreasonable person. From childhood to adulthood, no matter what he does, he always thinks he is right. When we were young, he often beat Ah-Tian and me.”
When I arrived at the stock market with the children, I heard a loud bang, and my husband fell to his death right in front of us. I looked up and saw Ding Xie leaning over the edge of the rooftop, looking out. I wasn't the only one who saw it; many people saw it too.