Chapter 29: The Joshua Daller Case (4)

Jim Cumming was stiff, cold from the scalp to the soles of his feet.

He was like a goose strangled by his neck, with his mouth open, panting, but he couldn't say a word for a long time. Even the hair that had been scratched with the wax was pulled down, giving it an inferior greasy sheen.

The prosecution lawyer Lu, who was sitting in the seat, also had a blank face, stared at Gu Yan for a while, and then turned his eyes to the witness seat.

He suddenly regretted that he had not checked all the details with the witnesses beforehand. Or to put it another way, when he contacted the witnesses before the trial, he explained so many precautions, big and small, why didn't he think of this.

The dead silence of the entire court lasted about four or five seconds, and it was boiling.

The people in the gallery finally came to their senses, watching the witness box begin to discuss, the voice penetrated into Jim Cumming's ears pervasively, but could not hear the complete words.

His face was flushed, and his cheeks were even a little purple from years of excessive drinking.

"I..." He opened his mouth and glanced around, apparently unable to stand still, "but...I..."

Gu Yan waited for a while without waiting for more explanation. He didn't seem surprised by this situation, he just threw the paper page back on the table, and the electronic page returned to its original position instantly.

"Unfortunately, I have not been able to hear a reasonable explanation. So, may I doubt your motives?"

He said it very calmly.

In fact, he acted very calm throughout the entire court debate, without impassioned, without deliberately raising or lowering the tone, without any incendiary tone. From the beginning to the end, he had a cold look, which matched his slightly cold tone very well.

Jim Cumming's motives, he can make all kinds of analysis, any one is enough to completely collapse the man on the witness stand.

But there is no need to waste the tongue.

As someone once said - for a jury or other inclined person, giving a lead to their own conclusion works better than any other way.

People in the gallery already had all kinds of speculations. For example, Jim Cumming was the murderer. He made this perjury to cover up the truth of his murder and to blame others for the crime.

Another example is an alcoholic who has been drunk all year round. No one looks down on him, and always thinks that he is full of boasting and drunken talk. Finally, one day, his words suddenly had a sense of existence, and they were so important that they could even determine a person's life. When he stood on the witness stand, everyone would calm down, set their eyes on him, and listen carefully to everything he said. Character. This salty fish-like difference is enough to make him vanity and satisfaction.

...

The jury will have the same thoughts that the onlookers will have.

The prosecution lawyer Lu couldn't help turning his head to look at the jury on the high table. The ladies and gentlemen were also talking briefly with their faces turned serious or disgusted.

Lu turned around silently again, only to feel that this court trial had suddenly smeared "to be finished" in capital letters on his head.

Jim Cumming fell from heaven to hell in the eyes of countless or suspicious or contemptuous, this kind of experience like jumping from a building made him hard to resist, dizzy and almost unable to stand.

It just so happened that Judge Murray Liu slammed the gavel and said in a deep voice, "Silence!"

The gavel fell, and Jim Cumming on the witness stand shuddered and rolled his eyes on the spot.

Generally speaking, in the courts in the Decamana area, such important witness testimony has huge flaws. The defense represented by Gu Yan will propose a direct ruling, which will be accepted in all likelihood, and a more ideal one will be obtained. Effect.

Judge Murray Liu's butt was still crooked, however, so the motion for ruling was denied.

He just asked the bailiff to take Jim Cumming out for follow-up questioning, and the trial continued unaffected.

When the old guy struck the gavel, Yan Suizhi, who was sitting behind Gu Yan, started to write again unwillingly.

The former dean of Tangtang Law School, a former first-level lawyer, drew a turtle on the page with his legs crossed and his eyebrows raised...

The strokes are abstract, chic and unruly.

The most torment is Joshua Daller on the defendant.

He felt like a wild chicken with a neck, and was pressed on the cutting board ten minutes ago, and he used a kitchen knife to cut his head to chop his head. Seeing that he was going to die, he was rescued by another person, and escaped in death.

However, he just went down to the ground and ran away with his claws. He was caught before his breath, and he was caught again.

He rested his head on the cutting board again, and felt that life was really fucking, so he didn't let him go, then he basically didn't expect it.

This time, he felt that he had entered the prison below his neck, and his head was still struggling.

For this situation, Gu Yan and Yan Sui have long been prepared.

After the decision was rejected directly, the trial will enter the stage of the defense's evidence. Gu Yan Bafeng stood on the defense seat and reached out and wiped the playback control key. The huge holographic screen of the court switched the content instantly, showing the on -site footprint appraisal form submitted by the police trace department.

After the application, the trace inspection officer stood on the witness seat and answered the questions asked by Gu Yan.

"Salaries Chen Chen?"

"Yes."

"This footprint appraisal form is submitted by your hand?"

Chen nodded: "Yes."

"The content is very clear." Gu Yan said, "But in order to avoid unnecessary problems, I still need to confirm some details with you."

"Ok, no problem."

"Record Table No. 2 and 3, shoe printing is 27.5 cm in length, 14.5 cm in front palms, 9.3 cm wide, 6.3 cm in length, 6 cm wide, 6.6 cm in length, 6 cm wide. According to the aforementioned wear status, etc. Marrant estimates, about 1.5 cm thick. "

Gu Yan used a control light to draw a line on the holographic screen to facilitate everyone to find this sentence.

"Will there be errors in this part of the information?"

Chen shook his head, "No, the footprint information provided to the trace inspection department is very clear, there will be no errors. The only way that may have an error is the thickness of the heel."

"What is the error value?"

"0.05 cm floating up and down." Chen said, adding another sentence, "This error value is not enough to affect the analysis results of the shoe printing, which is too small."

Gu Yan: "Determine this error?"

"Very sure."

Gu Yan nodded.

Console lawyer Lu: "..."

I don't know why, Gu Yan nodded, and he began to panic. Generally speaking, when the footprint is separated alone, most of the content of the question will be concentrated on the height of the suspects judged according to footprints.

If you really ask this, there is nothing to worry about Lu do, because there is a scope of error in the height. Regardless of whether the jury or the judge know this, it will have known this. It is difficult to shake what impact.

As a result, the defense lawyer actually only asked the heel?

What kind of ghost is this?

Gu Yan wiped the playback controller calmly. This time, the holographic screen finally showed the new evidence collected by him and Yan Suizhi in these days. He picked the first one in many surveillance video videos, that is, the video of the goat store, directly pulled the progress bar at 7:55 pm on the 23rd.

The entire courtroom looked up, watching the video show the top of a person's head in Kitty Bell's window, obscured by water vapor.

Gu Yan pressed pause, and then implanted the video directly into the three-dimensional map of the old city.

He turned the map into cross-sectional mode, and along the way, the red dots in the lamb chop shop represented the camera's location, and the red dots at Kitty Bell's house represented the top of the suspect's head at the time of the crime.

"Thank you for modern technology." Gu Yan still had a calm expression on his face, "All distances are marked on the map. Mark inspector, I think you can fully calculate based on the information on the map, how tall the suspect needs to be. Only under the premise of being blocked by these obstacles, this part of the hair is exposed."

In fact, there is no need for manual calculation at all. In the map interface, as long as you select that point and tap the button, the value will be automatically obtained.

Chen subconsciously reached out and touched the playback control button on the witness stand. The red dot on the screen, representing the suspect, jumped, and there was an additional value next to it: "182.3 cm, the error value fluctuates by 0.2 cm."

Gu Yan lowered his gaze and picked out Joshua Dalle's identity information and the registration information of the detention center.

"My client, Joshua Dalle, has a net height of 176 centimeters. This is the measured value of the detention center." Gu Yan shook the imitation paper, and said coolly: "Even if you add the heel height inferred from the footprint identification table, it is still not enough. Nowhere near 182.3 centimeters."

"Excuse me, is the information in the detention center falsified, or is the footprint identification form falsified?"

List:"………………"

What more can he say? He couldn't say anything, and everything he could think of, such as errors, was blocked by Gu Yan in the previous inquiry.

The whole place fell silent again.

Five seconds later, a louder uproar broke out than before.

Joshua, who was covered by the cramped glass, was suffocated for two seconds, then sat up straight and looked at Gu Yan blankly, unable to believe what he heard.

He wandered in this daze for a long time. When his heart found where he was, and his five senses finally returned to his senses, the judge had already struck the gavel with a sullen face, and had to ask the jury to give a verdict under the impetus of facts and pressure.

"So, ladies and gentlemen, do you have an answer?"

Murray Liu looked at the jury and asked this sentence in a deep voice.

The eyes of the audience fell on the high jury bench. Joshua felt that his whole body was frozen. He had never been so nervous in his life, and his whole life would be pressed on this answer.

The jury leader nodded in silence, "Yes, we have a decision."

Murray Liu: "Guilty or not?"

While holding his breath, the calm voice of the head of the regiment sounded in the court, enough for everyone in the court to hear—

"Not guilty."

Released in court.