Luo Jialan was even more confident and sat up straighter.
At that moment, the heavy door of Court No. 1 closed silently.
It was time for the trial.
The judge knocked the gavel at the head of the table and solemnly announced, "The trial of the prosecutor's office accusing Luo Jialan of intentional homicide has officially begun. Now, check the identities of the plaintiff and the defendant. "
Because it was a felony, it was necessary to verify their identities in court. In addition to checking fingerprints and irises, they also took each other's blood for DNA testing.
The latter took a longer time, but it was also one of the pieces of evidence that had to be filed.
The court nurse came over and took a drop of blood from each of Luo Jialan and Song Jinning and put it in a small test tube.
"The fingerprints match, the irises match, and the DNA test results will be released in a few days. Now, I announce that the trial has begun. Prosecutor, you can start with the briefing. "
The judge looked at the test report and signed his name. At the same time, he asked the prosecutor to brief the case.
The prosecutor sat together with Gu Nianzhi and Song Jinning, but he sat on the far left, Song Jinning sat in the middle, and Gu Nianzhi sat on the far right.
When the judge asked the prosecutor to stand up and brief the case, he stood up calmly.
"Your honor, ladies and gentlemen in the courtroom, hello. I am the prosecutor who accused Luo Jialan of intentional homicide. "
"The defendant, Ms. Luo Jialan, is accused of attempting to harm Ms. Song Jinning to death over the past ten years when she was taking care of her seriously injured and delirious self."
"The defendant, Luo Jialan, has a motive and conduct. Therefore, our court has filed a case to charge Luo Jialan with intentional homicide against Ms. Song Jinning."
After the prosecutor's brief statement, the judge looked at Luo Jialan and Cai Shengnan, who were in the dock. "Do you agree with the prosecutor's charges?"
Of course they didn't agree. It was just a question from the judge according to procedure.
Cai Shengnan stood up calmly with a proper smile on her face and said, "Your honor, we don't agree with the prosecutor's charges. As Ms. Luo Jialan's lawyer, I want to defend Ms. Luo Jialan's innocence."
The judge nodded and asked her to sit down. He then looked at the plaintiff's seat and asked, "Prosecutor, what do you have to say?"
The prosecutor was a public official of the prosecutor's office, but for this case, the prosecutor had already sent their own prosecution lawyer, Gu Nianzhi.
Therefore, the prosecutor would not argue directly with the defendant.
He stood up and said, "This court has already entrusted the prosecution's lawyer in this case to the plaintiff's lawyer, Ms. Gu Nianzhi. Please allow the court to approve it."
The judge looked at Gu Nianzhi's information and nodded in agreement. "Prosecution lawyer, please state your case."
Gu Nianzhi also stood up and politely nodded to the people in the courtroom. She said, "On behalf of the prosecutor's office and the plaintiff, Ms. Song Jinning, I accuse the defendant, Luo Jialan. Over the past ten years, she has deliberately planned to murder a woman, Song Jinning, who has suffered severe brain trauma to the point of insanity and has no ability to act on her own."
Luo Jialan glanced sideways at Song Jinning, who was sitting upright and charming. She felt disdain from the bottom of her heart.
In fact, it was hard for her to take Song Jinning seriously.
Although Song Jinning had recovered, for Luo Jialan, for the past ten years, Song Jinning had always been that silly girl who thought that she was always eighteen years old and was at her mercy.
In the past ten years, she had seen Song Jinning's husband, Huo Guanchen, alienated. Although they were under the same roof, he had ignored Song Jinning and had even deliberately indulged himself in torturing Song Jinning.
Song Jinning's son, Huo Shaoheng, had also left. The number of times he had returned home in the past ten years could be counted on one hand.
In the past seven years, he had not returned home even once, except for last Christmas.
How could she think that Huo Shaoheng took Song Jinning seriously as his mother?
Although Luo Jialan had also understood Huo Shaoheng's ten-year plan to defeat the enemy with one move and finally send Bai Jinyi to prison during Bai Jinyi's case at the beginning of last year, she still stubbornly believed that Huo Shaoheng had done that to seek justice for his mother, Luo Xinxue. Song Jinning had also benefited from it.
So even when she sat in the dock in court, Luo Jialan was still in disbelief.
She glanced at Gu Nianzhi, and a trace of resentment flashed in her eyes.
It was all because of her.
Because Gu Nianzhi had insisted on avenging Song Jinning, Huo Shaoheng had allowed her to do as she pleased.
Luo Jialan didn't believe a word of Huo Shaoheng's motherly love for Song Jinning.
Huo Shaoheng had never called Song Jinning "Mother" or "Mom" for so many years. He only called her "Ms. Song". Luo Jialan knew that her judgment was correct.
She told Cai Shengnan all of this in detail.
When she heard so many secrets of the Huo family, Cai Shengnan was overjoyed and listened very seriously. She even used the excuse of keeping a file as evidence to not only record and video, but also wrote a written document for Luo Jialan to sign with her fingerprint to prove that everything was true.
After understanding all aspects of the situation, Cai Shengnan and her father, Cai Sumin, deliberated and checked in many ways before finally deciding on a defense plan.
Defending a murder case was nothing more than the three ironclad rules.
As long as it was used properly, all murder was not a crime.
Gu Nianzhi calmly stood up from the plaintiff's stand and continued to speak with assurance.
"Seventeen years ago, Ms. Song Jinning was seriously injured in an experiment, causing damage to parts of her brain. Her memory and cognition were severely impaired. After being verified by professional psychologists, she was indeed a severely mentally ill patient with no ability to act."
"Ten years ago, Ms. Luo Jialan, who was still called Huo Jialan, was the adopted daughter of the martyr Huo Guanyuan. The martyr Huo Guanyuan was the elder brother of Ms. Song Jinning's ex-husband, Mr. Huo Guanchen. In other words, Ms. Luo Jialan was Ms. Song Jinning's niece at that time. "
"Ten years ago, Ms. Luo Jialan's mother, Luo Xinxue, was murdered by Bai Jinyi. Luo Jialan left her mother in the lurch and let her die."
"Objection. Bai Jinyi and Luo Xinxue's case has nothing to do with this case. Please don't change the subject, lawyer."
Cai Shengnan heard Gu Nianzhi mention the death of Luo Jialan's biological mother, Luo Xinxue, and quickly stopped her.
In Cai Shengnan's opinion, this was the most passive part of Luo Jialan.
In the eyes of many people, leaving her mother in the lurch was a sign of ruthlessness.
If Gu Nianzhi was allowed to put this point of view into the minds of the judge and the military personnel who were listening, it would be much more difficult for her to argue later.
Gu Nianzhi was interrupted by Cai Shengnan, so she paused for a moment before continuing, "Your Honor, I will prove that these two cases are related."
"Bai Jinyi has already been sentenced. Lawyer, do you not understand what 'no second trial' means? In that case, my client was just an important witness, and she was a poor daughter who was deceived by Bai Jinyi and watched her biological mother die. Her conscience was already tormented and troubled by the matter. I ask the prosecution lawyer to stop using this matter to agitate my client's emotions. "
Luo Jialan burst into tears.
She cried as soon as she said she would. Tears flowed all over her face, and her grief was real.
Some people already looked like they couldn't bear it.
Gu Nianzhi was still very calm. She said, "Lawyer Cai, first of all, the 'no second trial' situation only applies to the defendant who has been sentenced. In other words, you might be able to raise this principle for the defendant in that case, Bai Jinyi, but it doesn't apply at all to Luo Jialan, who was only a tainted witness at the time."
"Secondly, our Huaxia Empire doesn't have the principle of 'no second trial'. Our principle is to seek truth from facts and correct mistakes. So the court doesn't need to pay attention to your proposal of 'no second trial'. "
Cai Shengnan's face was burning. It was as if she had been slapped in the face in court!
She hadn't expected Gu Nianzhi to react so quickly. She knew all kinds of rules like the back of her hand, and could come up with conceptual theories at will.
The corners of her mouth twitched a few times, and she sat down reluctantly. She was ten times more alert, and continued to listen attentively, trying to find loopholes in Gu Nianzhi's statement.
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This was the third update of the day: Chapter 1353, "The One Who Smoked You".
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