The sword of justice goes sideways
Author: Li Yingjun Lawyer
This is a righteous sword move, a bold declaration of war by conscience against greed.
The widow of the deceased in the shooting claimed compensation from the gun company. The defendant (defense) attempted to manipulate the jury, paying a lot of money to invite all the top experts, investigate wiretapping surveillance, analyze data, set porcelain jurors, and dig up black material threats.
The male protagonist, Easter, the store manager, an inconspicuous little man, was selected as a candidate juror. Nicole first deliberately proposed to the judge that he wanted to participate in the video game competition and did not want to be a juror, and was reprimanded by the judge, creating the illusion that he did not want to be a juror and had no sense of responsibility.
The jury met for the first time. Frank, a retired Marine Captain who served his country in Grenada, Panama, was a powerful and tough personality who wanted to be the chairman of the jury. Two other women also came forward to "run for office."
At this time, East nominated the most suitable candidate to be the chairman— a blind man, the benevolent elder Horman, because he dared to refute the judge and understood the law. Not surprisingly, unanimously in favor. Ester cleared the way for the next move.
On two occasions, East cleverly manipulates the situation unknowingly—his partner Mary calls to ask the takeaway not to deliver food, and the hungry jurors are agitated and quarrel. East ran to a nearby restaurant to find the judge to complain, won the right to go out to dinner, and forced the judge to pay helplessly. The prosecution and defense lawyers who saw this scene were astonished.
The second time Easter made up the story of his friend's sacrifice for the country twelve years ago today, winning everyone's sympathy, so that the jurors swore an oath to the flag in unison at the opening of the trial.
Ester used a little trick, and people, after rejecting someone two or three times, are likely to be too careless to take a compromise. So he, borrowing the words of other jurors, vetoed the prayers and singing, and everyone agreed to take an oath to commemorate the sacrificed soldiers.
Two such anomalies have convinced both the prosecution and defense that the jury was indeed manipulated.
Of course, the defense is not a vegetarian, and they locked nico through the secretly filmed trial video - after the oath was taken, the aunt sitting next to East touched the back of his hand to comfort him, and the defense immediately understood that the jurors were doing this for East. The defense sent someone to Easter's house to rummage through the boxes and cabinets and confiscated the computer information.
In retaliation, Nicole killed one of the jurors in the defense camp. This time, his acting skills exploded, his eyes were red and swollen with wind-repellent oil, and he did not sleep all night, winning the sympathy of the female juror Harrik and secretly giving him wine to drink. Ester "lost his hand", threw the bottle out, and pretended to deceive the judge that the wine was his own, and the judge deduced from the red lip print of the bottle that the wine was Harrick's, replacing Harrick with a substitute juror.
The enraged defense privately threatened jurors and set fire to East's house.
East handed over surveillance video of someone breaking into his house to the judge, who was furious and announced that the jurors would be quarantined so that the defense could not intervene, and East could easily achieve his goal. He was forced to accept the $15 million offer from Mary and East.
The defense made a sinister move, so that the prosecution witnesses no longer testified in court, and the prosecution was about to lose the case.
On the final day of the trial, the prosecution lawyer made a generous statement and played a video of the deceased's family reunion before his death, which inspired the jurors' sympathy for the deceased and anger at the gun company's reckless death.
The jury debated in two groups of opinions, with some arguing that gun companies should not be held accountable, just as manufacturers who have a heart attack and cannot sue junk food should be freely held accountable by the perpetrators. The view was expressed that the law should protect people.
Thorn Frank didn't think the woman was worth paying so much compensation because everyone had suffered a lot. East secretly used a trick "radical method", he calmly debated with Frank, allowing Frank to say more and more extreme words emotionally, making everyone stunned, Frank's dark jealousy was revealed, so everyone naturally went to the opposite side of him.
At this time, Ester said deeply: "Some people may be afraid, may be timid, or you only care about yourself... Frank didn't look away, I was the worst offender, and I had made up my mind before I came here. But this trial is not for me, nor for you, we are here for Sally Stedwood to carefully consider the facts of the case, no matter how long it takes. There are some testimonies I'd like to discuss again..."
The jury ruled by a vote of 10 to 2 — the defendant gun company lost.
The truth was revealed at the last minute. The heroine's sister died at the gun many years ago, and the heroine and her boyfriend are determined to get justice. The two masters should cooperate inside and outside - the male protagonist goes deep into the tiger's den and disintegrates the dissidents, and the female protagonist negotiates with the prosecution and defense, exerts pressure, cooperates seamlessly, and leads the scheming prosecution into the ambush circle step by step, and jointly directs the earth-shattering reversal.
The wisdom and courage of the male protagonist and the heroine make people awe-inspiring, five bodies to the ground - the two picked out the gun company with great wealth and never lost the lawsuit, won 100 million compensation for the plaintiff, and also recovered 15 million yuan of "compensation" for their relatives.
Rather than bitterly satirizing the loopholes in the rules of the game like jury and the hypocrisy and coldness of the chaebols, it shows us how much courage and wisdom a person can inspire under the inspiration of his inner conscience.
The "runaway jury" system
Robin Hood is needed to save
Author: Chen Weihua Lawyer
On a busy and exciting morning, armed thugs break into a stockbroking company in New Orleans, USA, and shoot wildly, a successful stockbroker with nowhere to escape, lying in a pool of blood, and he will never be able to attend the birthday party he has carefully prepared for his son.
Two years later, the widow of the slain broker entrusted Wen Dao, an elite lawyer in New Orleans. Ruhr took Vicksburg Firearms, the manufacturer of guns used by the mob, to court for huge civil damages. As the defendant, the Vicksburg Firearms Company naturally did not dare to be sloppy, and paid a lot of money to hire a well-known local defense lawyer.
In common law systems, the court hears cases by way of defense, that is, through the debate between the positive and negative sides to clarify the facts, and finally by the jury to decide, to put it bluntly, whether the suspect is guilty or not is determined by the vote of the twelve jurors of the jury, this decision is determined not only by evidence, but also by the life experience, cognitive level and values of the jury.
In the U.S. judicial system, the process of verifying facts is only done in the lower courts, and the intermediate courts and supreme courts can only challenge the procedures followed in the trial process, and they have no power to deny the factual determination made by the jury in the primary court, that is, the result cast by the jury is final and will not be overturned.
What's more, once the case becomes precedent, it will be cited in similar cases in the future, and the Vicksburg Firearms Company will continue to be in trouble. To ensure victory, the Vicksburg Firearms Company also hired a mysterious jury manipulator Master Blue Gold. Finch. Blue gold can be described as a fire eye, insight into people. More importantly, there is a well-equipped and well-trained team behind Blue Gold, who added the CIA's usual monitoring equipment and high-definition footage to the pre-trial scene, installed secret wireless headphones for defense lawyers, and conducted FBI-style investigations and studies on the personality, life experience, hobbies, financial situation, etc. of more than fifty juror candidates in this case.
The two armies are opposed, Wen Dao. Ruhr was also on the verge of a rival, hiring Lawrence, an experienced jury advisor with a master's degree in psychology. Around the choice of jurors, the lawyers of the prosecution and defense launched a fierce game and fighting methods-
Prosecution consultant Lawrence advised Wen Dao. Ruhr picked a man who was eager to try, and countless defense lawyers were preparing to agree, and blue gold came from the headphones. Finch's decisive proposal – firmly opposed. At this time, a dramatic scene appeared, and the candidate became angry, saying that he would resolutely crack down on the arms business that produced countless killings in the United States, and took out a blood bag and smeared it on his body. In the confusion, the bailiffs dragged the candidate out of court – the Vicksburg Firearms Company was blue gold. Finch paid ten million dollars for a knife that seemed to be really good value for money.
The prosecution picked a video game sales manager named Easter, who said in court that he was going to an important esports tournament and did not want to be a juror. The judge was furious, "You must have done it, and if it had been a hundred years ago, I could have hanged you for it." Ester was helpless.
After two days of arguing, the prosecution and defense finally selected twelve jurors from more than fifty candidates. The trial began, the evidence was presented, the cross-examination was in full swing. Both the prosecution and the defense received an envelope in which twelve jurors were bought for ten million dollars for a deal — both sides felt that this was blackmail and ignored it. Lawyers on both sides received a call from a Woman Mary claiming she had taken control of the jury. Sure enough, the jury then performed a series of bizarre behaviors— the jury suddenly went out to dine with the trial judge, and after reciting the oath, ghostly sang the national anthem.
The prosecution and defense had to believe that someone had manipulated the jury. Prosecution Counsel Wen Dao. Ruhr could not get a partner, could not come up with ten million US dollars, and could only choose to trust the conscience of the jurors. Blue Gold. Finch locked in the manipulator is the video game sales manager East, he decisively launched a counterattack, East is not a vegetarian, but also with color, creating traps to sweep the two jurors selected by the defense out of the game, the situation is very dangerous for the defense.
Mary, Easter's agent, raised the price and asked for fifteen million dollars, otherwise the defense would have to wait for a defeat. In desperation, Blue Gold. Finch paid Mary fifteen million dollars. East began a series of divine maneuvers within the jury.
The trial is over, Wen Dao. After Ruhr played a warm family video of the victims, everyone waited for the jury to vote. Wen Dao. Ruhr's expression was stiff, his heart was uneasy, blue gold. Finch was triumphant and confident.
The jury came out – an eight-to-four verdict that Vicksburg Firearms had lost. The court ordered the Vicksburg Firearms Company to pay a civil damage of 170 million US dollars to the widow of the stockbroker.
Exhausted Wen Dao. Ruhr believes that money is not a panacea! This is the triumph of the jury's conscience! This is a victory for justice! This is a victory for the American judicial system!
What is going on with this earth-shattering reversal? It turned out that ten years ago, the families of the victims of a bloody school shooting filed civil compensation against the arms manufacturer, and it was Blue Gold. Finch manipulated the jury in a dirty way to bring the victim's family to the fore. Mary's sister was the victim of the shooting, and East was Mary's boyfriend. East and Mary infiltrated the jury like Robin Hood to do justice for the victims' families and "blackmailed" the gun company through successful disguises. The so-called "gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late"!
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