Chapter 1144: It's him!

It's him!

When the police chief apologized to Lan Si, who wasn't even there, some people in the public gallery let out some laughter.

Clearly, these laughs were not kind; they were filled with mockery and ridicule.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, this is the fairness of federal justice—it won't let you off just because you are a police chief, for the wrong things you said or did.

As long as it is discovered that you did something wrong, and someone points it out, you have to pay for your mistakes.

But in the eyes of others, this is the effect of power.

Sometimes it's hard to say what the difference is between power and the law.

Perhaps people will feel that power only takes care of a very small number of people, but the law can take care of the majority. So, can it be understood as the saying "the law is the power of ordinary people"?

Perhaps it can be understood this way, but sadly, the power of ordinary people, which is the law, is formulated by those who truly hold power.

The police chief also heard those laughs, and his face felt a bit hot, but by this time, confronting the court was meaningless.

In court, the Supreme Court justice sits there. Even if you know some of the things he says are wrong, and some decisions are not right, you cannot question them.

Questioning the judge is equivalent to questioning the federal law. There are problems that can be solved privately, but contradictions cannot be intensified on the surface.

"Please continue, Mr. Director."

The police chief opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't know where to start.

He thought for a while, then continued from the previous words, "We had an intelligence source and knew that someone was going to attack Mr. Lan Si·Huai Te in New Jincheng, so we planned to arrest these attackers when they attacked."

"These people came from the Perez family. They were very powerful, and I didn't dare to underestimate them."

"The attack happened very suddenly and very quickly. I couldn't react at all. By the time I realized the attack had started, I called for support, and then our police cars started to act. This is all."

"I guarantee that I have the confidence to protect the safety of Mr. Lan Si·Huai Te, so I made that choice."

Lawyer Luo Ben shook his head. He looked at the sheriff, "Is what he said the truth?"

The sheriff shook his head without hesitation, "What he said is not the truth. He told us to wait until the firefight... I mean, wait until the attack was almost over, and then we would go to clean up the mess."

"Because he felt that it was acceptable for there to be casualties on either side of the attackers and the attacked, after all...", the sheriff didn't finish the rest, but everyone could understand.

Letting two gangs have a firefight and then going to clean up the mess is a hidden rule that almost all regional police are following.

They won't actively resolve the firefight; that would involve huge danger, and doing so has no meaning.

Saving the lives of a few gang members will only make them do more bad things in the future, but letting them lie there quietly, people in the entire city will be grateful to them.

Some things can be done, but cannot be said. When not said, it is right; when said, it is wrong.

Lawyer Luo Ben thanked the sheriff for his statement, then looked at the police chief, "So from the beginning, you knew these people were going to attack my client, and because of your subjective, or some other reason, you chose to let them attack my client in a metropolis like New Jincheng?"

"This is murder, Your Honor!"

The lawyer on the police chief's side immediately stood up, "I object, Your Honor. There is no evidence that can support this point. The opposing lawyer needs to apologize to my client!"

He almost repeated Lawyer Luo Ben's words just now. The Supreme Court justice thought for a while, but Lawyer Luo Ben explained at this time, "I just gave my conclusion according to my way of thinking. If you think I have a problem with stating the result directly, then I can express the process of thinking, and I hope Your Honor can give me this opportunity."

The Supreme Court justice's expression was always very calm. He looked at the police chief and nodded, "You can do this, but if the result you express is different from what you said, then you need to apologize to this gentleman."

In fact, he himself knew that if it followed the normal "process," the police chief's behaviors indeed couldn't find any problems. If it were a different plaintiff, perhaps the objection would be effective, and the result would also be different.

But the mistake was that the police chief found the wrong person, not did the wrong thing, so the Supreme Court justice now also agrees with this view. This is a criminal act, when the person attacked belongs to "privileged people."

Lawyer Luo Ben bowed slightly to the Supreme Court justice to express his gratitude, then turned to look at the police chief and asked, "Mr. Director, do you and Mr. Lan Si·Huai Te have any... disputes, for example, at work?"

"You say he is a gang, you have investigated cases related to him, and have you had disputes?"

The police chief recalled, there were too many disputes, but he couldn't say them out.

People had just accepted the idea proposed by Lawyer Luo Ben that he "let the attackers attack innocent citizens." Now if he admitted that he had conflicts with Lan Si, then this would be typical abuse of power for revenge. He knew better than anyone that he shouldn't say anything at this time.

"I don't have any disputes with Mr. Lan Si."

Lawyer Luo Ben asked again, "Then are you participating in the investigation of cases surrounding Mr. Lan Si·Huai Te recently, for example, you always think he is a gang organizer, are you investigating evidence of Mr. Lan Si·Huai Te's crimes?"

This was another question that couldn't be answered, because the directionality was too clear. Simply put, Lawyer Luo Ben was looking for a motive for "this is a premeditated murder."

A key point of federal justice is the motive for the crime.

Even if a criminal is caught on the spot, but he is not caught killing someone, he is just found at the scene, and blood is found on him—the victim's blood.

But as long as he lacks the motive to kill the victim, and then gives him a barely passing lawyer, he has a high probability of getting a chance for acquittal.

This kind of case has happened many times in the federation. Clearly, every known piece of evidence points to a suspect, but the motive for him killing someone cannot be found, and the case can only be helplessly withdrawn in the end.

Now Lawyer Luo Ben's behavior is looking for this life-threatening thing. What drove the police chief to sit and watch all this happen without interfering? If a motive is established, then his motive for premeditated murder is also established.

He could only request, "I didn't participate in any investigation cases or actions involving Mr. Lan Si·Huai Te. He doesn't often appear in New Jincheng. Even if he were to be investigated, it would be the work of other departments and other regional police, and it has nothing to do with me."

Lawyer Luo Ben nodded and continued to ask, "Then you also don't have any economic dealings, for example, he owes you money, or you owe him money?"

The police chief looked at his defense lawyer, the lawyer cooperating with the police department, but clearly, this lawyer didn't make a very good defense plan at this time.

He could only continue to answer according to Lawyer Luo Ben's questions, "No, I don't have any economic dealings with Mr. Lan Si, and neither of us owes the other money."

Lawyer Luo Ben nodded, "That is to say, in any aspect, you don't have the possibility of conflict, and there is no one who hopes to harm the other?"

The police chief thought seriously for a while and thought this was not a trap, so he nodded, "We don't have any conflicts, and I don't hope to harm him."

Lawyer Luo Ben nodded, "Since you don't have any conflicts, why did you do these behaviors?"

"When you knew that my client, Mr. Lan Si·Huai Te, was in danger, and the police had arrived near the scene, and you could have stopped this attack before it happened at any time, you chose to indulge these attackers to appear around my client calmly, and shoot with pistols, submachine guns, and even rifles in the street?"

"And, in the first moment the attack happened, you still let everyone keep silent until the attack was over before you started to act?"

"What are you waiting for?"

"Is it waiting for a result you want, for example, my client, Mr. Lan Si·Huai Te, dying in this attack?"

The police lawyer stood up again, "I object, Your Honor. The opposing lawyer clearly carries malicious inducement. His questioning triggered court rules..."

Lawyer Luo Ben turned to face the Supreme Court justice, "Your Honor, I believe that every event has a motive. This is also the first lesson I learned during my university period."

"I think if we want to figure out whether the defendant has some problems in this case, we must figure out what his motive is."

The Supreme Court justice referred to the "answers" of both sides. He nodded and continued to support Lawyer Luo Ben, "Objection overruled," then he looked at the police chief, "You need to answer this question."

This is obvious favoritism. The police lawyer also felt it, but Lawyer Luo Ben's logic had no problems. It can only be said that this is Lawyer Luo Ben's home court.

Home court lawsuits are basically very difficult to win. As a lawyer, he deeply understands this point. He has already started to consider whether it is necessary to go all out when the court is in recess.

The police chief was also thinking about how to answer this question at this time. Since there were no conflicts, disputes, clashes, or hatred, why did he do this?

He was also considering it. Of course, he knew the reason was that Director Luo Lan asked him to do so.

He stood in the dock and remained silent. His lawyer stood up at this time, "Your Honor, my client is feeling a bit unwell. We need to temporarily recess and rest for a while."

The Supreme Court justice looked at the police chief, who didn't look uncomfortable, and asked, "Are you unwell?"

The police chief nodded, "I'm a bit dizzy. These too many questions make my brain very messy. I feel uncomfortable now, and the enclosed space also makes me feel fear. I'm almost out of breath."

The Supreme Court justice whispered a few words to the person beside him, "Then go and breathe some fresh air. Recess for ten minutes," he said, hitting the wooden mallet and standing up, leaving through the door beside him.

The police lawyer immediately went to the courtyard beside with the police chief, because now the police chief is not a "criminal suspect," so he doesn't need to be locked in a room.

This temporary recess was in Lawyer Luo Ben's expectation. He needed to give these two people a chance to think, and it was also the last chance.

If the police chief still didn't intend to cooperate, then he would take out some evidence of stains on the police chief, directly bite him to death, and then force him to compromise through back-door deals.

For example, the house and car that the police chief couldn't afford even if he worked for five hundred years, and the consumption situation of his family.

And some cases he handled that clearly carried the color of power and had distorted results. These could all make him go to jail.

As a lawyer, Lawyer Luo Ben knows very clearly that the higher the status of people in law enforcement departments, the more they are afraid of going to jail.

Small police officers going to jail might be beaten every day, and the days might not be very good, but it is also possible that they have a good relationship with criminals. This is hard to say; after all, they have been on the front line for a long time.

Although there are enemies, there are also friends.

But those high-level law enforcement teams are different. Almost all people who go to jail have hatred with them.

If he doesn't want to die, he will know what to do.

In fact, it is true. In the garden, the director's lawyer is whispering to him, "The Luo Ben might use more materials to make a strong coercion next. To be honest, I don't have much confidence in being able to handle him."

The police chief is smoking. He turned his head to look at the lawyer beside him, "This Luo Ben is very powerful?"

The lawyer nodded, "He was a star student in school during his university period, and he has been very powerful in his work after graduation. He has won many lawsuits that we thought were very difficult to fight."

"If it weren't for some conflicts he had with people in the Ministry of Justice, perhaps his personal law firm would have become a well-known law firm by now."

The director's first reaction was to find Luo Ben's mortal enemy in the Ministry of Justice, but he quickly dismissed this idea because it was too late in time.

Even if he found someone now, and the other party was willing to cooperate with them, it would be very difficult to change the pattern and result of the trial.

Unless the Supreme Court justice got sick and couldn't continue the subsequent trial, otherwise it would always be him trying it until it ended.

The lawyer looked at the director who was in a daze and said softly, "My idea is, if this matter is not very tricky, just find a reason to push it onto someone else, don't let the responsibility fall on yourself."

"According to Lawyer Luo Ben's plan, I'm afraid it's very difficult for me to do a simple dereliction of duty for you. Job-related crimes require going to jail."

Hearing the word "jail," the police chief came back to his senses. He pursed his lips, "I will consider it."

In the two minutes left before the court reopened, Lawyer Luo Ben walked over. The director's lawyer blocked him and the director, "You are not welcome here."

Lawyer Luo Ben smiled, "I just want to chat with Mr. Director for two sentences. You had better not block me."

Saying that, he pushed the lawyer away. The director behind the lawyer didn't object, which let the lawyer go to the side.

"What do you want to say?", the director asked.

Lawyer Luo Ben smiled, "I just came to remind you. The law is fair and pays attention to evidence."

"Any traces left by any things done by anyone, and these people often start to become careless because the things they did before were not punished."

"Mr. Director, you not only need to consider for yourself, but also think about your family."

The director stared at him, "Is this your meaning, or Lan Si's meaning?"

"Are you threatening me?"

Lawyer Luo Ben spread his hands, revealing an indifferent expression, "Think whatever you want. I'm just a friendly reminder. As long as you go to jail, you have been a director for so many years, you will always offend some people."

"I say this for your own good. Don't let yourself and your family suffer for other people's things. This has nothing to do with you. You are clear about this point!"

He said and took two steps back, "See you later, Mr. Director."

When the court reopened, the director's mood clearly had some changes. Under Lawyer Luo Ben's questioning, he finally hesitated and indicated that this answer was related to some important information and was not suitable for anyone to listen to.

Originally, this kind of application for public avoidance had precedents and was allowed, but Lawyer Luo Ben wouldn't let him do this.

"My client, Mr. Lan Si·Huai Te, once said to me when we were chatting—"

"In front of the law, everyone is equal, regardless of whether you are the president or a beggar. Everyone is an independent and equal individual, and we are all protected and constrained by the law."

"Your Honor, I suggest that right here, in front of everyone, let the defendant say what he wants to say."

While the Supreme Court justice was still thinking, a staff member beside him handed over a note. He just looked at it twice, then raised his head, "A very unique point of view, and I also support it very much."

"Defendant, you can say it here."

The police chief took a deep breath. He had already seen a dagger stabbing at Luo Lan, but he didn't know if this was all of it, all of theirs, or if this was just a sword tip.

"It was... Federal Investigation Bureau Director Luo Lan who asked me to do this..."

In an instant, the originally somewhat noisy courtroom suddenly became quiet, leaving only the sound of the camera running. Everyone looked at the police chief in the dock in disbelief. How did this case involve the Federal Investigation Bureau and the Director of the Federal Investigation Bureau again?

Lawyer Luo Ben got what he wanted. He was naturally the first to react. He walked to the side of the dock and looked at him with a smile, "Are you willing to take legal responsibility for what you said?"

"Can you guarantee that every word you say is the truth?"

Since the director had already made a choice, he naturally wouldn't jump back and forth again, "I am willing, I can guarantee that every word I say is the truth!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1145 =====