Doug sat in the first row of the audience, close to the dock to the left.

In front of him was the back of the little shoe shiner. McGill stood beside the little shoe shiner.

In the dock opposite them, Smith's wife stood there, and beside her, there was also a lawyer who was sorting out the manuscript.

The judge on the stage looked around and confirmed that no one was absent, announced the trial and described the case.

"On the evening of September 14, 1985, Gao Fei followed his employer Doug Clayden to the Smith Printing and Dyeing Factory.

Doug acquired the Smith Printing and Dyeing Factory, and Smith, who had obtained a lot of cash, just left the factory, and was blocked by the creditor at the door. All the money on him was stolen.

After the creditor left, Smith took out a knife and threatened Doug, asking Doug to give him more money.

Doug refused to obey, Smith slammed Doug, and Gao Fei shot Smith to protect his employer.

Smith's wife, Ms. Alvin, accused Gao Fei of intentionally murdering her husband. Do both the plaintiff and the defendant have any objections?”

"Judge! I have objection!"

McGill stood up and said.

"From what you just described, the deceased Mr. Smith had a strong desire to attack during his lifetime and was about to cause harm to the defendant's employer, and the plaintiff shot him to death.

I think the defendant has reasonable reasons to believe that this is an illegal threat and he has no obligation to retreat or avoid it first.

Therefore, I believe my plaintiff is not guilty."

"Judge! I disagree with the plaintiff's lawyer!"

The lawyer next to Smith's widow also stood up. He was strong and tall, wearing a straight suit and a dark red tie, and looked more professional attire than McGill.

He looked at the judge first, then turned his head to look at the jury.

He said loudly, "Judge, according to the information I have collected, although Gao Fei and his employer Doug Clayden have no intention of attacking first. However, the creditors who put Mr. Smith in a difficult situation were all found by Doug Clayden.

Lord Judge, gentlemen and ladies of the jury, look at the haggard woman beside me. She is the wife of Mr. Smith, a wife who is waiting for her husband to live in the new city with the money from selling the property.

Let’s take a look at the child in the audience. He is still so young, but he has lost his father.

Isn’t Gao Fei’s actions and his employer ruining a family that should be beautiful?

Mr. Smith thought that the money he had gone to live in a new city was snatched away by the creditors, and the mastermind behind the scenes was Doug behind Gao Fei. How could he not be angry?

Although Mr. Smith took out the knife angrily, I had reason to believe that Mr. Smith did not expect to attack Gao Fei and his employer.

I just thought of his wife and children and wanted to vent my anger.

The judge showed that this information was a record of my visit to the debt collectors that day. Please check it. You can summon any of them to confirm the authenticity of the record.

I'm done."

The lawyer of the plaintiff Smith's wife did not completely look for laws and precedents from the code and the pile of old papers, and he played an emotional card.

Let everyone present, especially the jury members, sympathize with the plaintiff.

During this period of the mid-nineteenth century, the New England region in the eastern United States cannot be said to be insufficient to rule of law.

However, no matter how high the level of the rule of law is, inherited from the British maritime law system, the final analysis is still the rule of man.

It is good to have precedents and laws, but the final result depends on the judgment of the jury and judges present.

Judges may understand the law, but compared to this, juries are not the case, and they value feelings more.

Smith's wife's lawyer, the core of today's view is to play the emotional card.

After listening to the plaintiff's lawyer's narration, the judge turned his attention to the defendant's dock.

McGill stood up again and said, "The plaintiff is indeed very haggard. The plaintiff's young child is indeed pitiful to lose his father at such a young age.

but!

Lord Judge!

The gentlemen and ladies of the jury!

Is it the only one who is Mr. Smith's family pitiful? The creditors who are owed by Smith are not only creditors, but also families.

These families may have been happy, but because of Mr. Smith's behavior of not paying back his debts, they were also in crisis.

My defense lawyer's employer informed Mr. Smith's creditors because of his ideal of allowing more families to live a better life.

This action saved several families that would have gone bankrupt, the judges, the gentlemen and ladies of the jury. Don't you think?

I'm done."

Although McGill's main focus is on patent laws, his skills in defending others in court are not bad.

Move it with emotion and explain it with reason.

Emotional card, legal card.

McGill had one left hand and one right hand. Other lawyers were skilled in fighting, so he did not beat him well.

In the jury seat, the faces of jurors of different professions, genders, and classes are also different.

Among them, the jurors of the small factory owner and the small shop owner may have sympathized with Smith's wife and children just now. However, when McGill finished speaking, they immediately empathized with the feelings of not paying back the debt.

When he thought that if Smith sold the factory, he would immediately leave New Haven by boat and never come back in the future, where would the creditors go to get the debt?

Therefore, they began to agree with the defendant's employer's behavior of notifying the deceased creditor.

Other jurors are not as sensitive to this issue.

However, they can still carry the weight of a family and several families.

Therefore, they also began to lean towards McGill's words.

Gilbert, who was in the last row, yawned as he looked at the revolving speeches on the stage.

He found this boring.

Why do you feel bored?

Because...no matter what is discussed now, it will prove useless.

He looked at Doug in the first row. He had already obtained conclusive evidence of pulling this hypocritical little homeless man into the water.

"Sir Judge!"

Smith's wife's lawyer spoke.

"I have obtained valid evidence to prove that the defendant Gao Fei would not shoot at all! Please check these information and summon witnesses. However, before this, I will make my inferences.

I think it was not Gao Fei, who should be a shoe shiner a few days ago, but Gao Fei's employer Doug Clayden!

I am applying now to include Doug Clayden in the defendant! Let us be tried together!

Lord Judge!

Justice will not harm anyone who is innocent, nor will it allow anyone who commits a crime to escape the legal ban!
Chapter completed!