"Where did you get the knife?" No. 7 asked, looking at Valente in surprise.

"I bought this knife from the store next to the courthouse. There are many switchblade knives of this style there."

Valente straightened his collar that had been pulled by No. 7 just now, and he answered calmly.

If someone pays attention to Valente's gaze at this time, he can see that his gaze has actually been staying somewhere behind the round table, and standing there is a handsome young man with blond hair and golden eyes. In the young man's hand

He is holding a white writing board, and a simple line of Terran characters is written on the white writing board.

Xia Xiu had already written the origin of the knife on the writing board and told Valente, but no one else could see him at all.

True off-field assistance.

"No. 8, all this is your guess. You can't prove that the knife is not Paul Colin's."

After No. 7 was initially stunned, he quickly found another key point. Valente could not prove that the switchblade did not belong to Paul Colin.

"President, I think we can vote now to determine whether Paul Colin is guilty or not. I don't think this is an act worth wasting too much time. Many evidences have proved that he was a murderer." No. 7 reached out to him.

The presiding judge stated that he wanted to hold a vote.

"Okay, then let's start the first round of voting." The presiding judge nodded in agreement.

Soon, everyone present received a blank ticket stamped by the Felony Court, with the following words printed on it:

【Based on my honor and conscience, my opinion is:_____】

Next, the judges and jurors only need to write "yes" or "no" on their votes. Writing nothing will be regarded as an abstention.

Any answer that is unfavorable to the defendant requires at least 8 votes in favor (8 votes to 4) in the first instance procedure; blank votes or invalid votes should be counted in favor of the defendant.

The first round of voting was passed quickly.

All the jurors present folded their written votes and put them into the ballot box.

Subsequently, the presiding judge opened the vote in front of the jury.

"2 abstentions, 3 votes against, 7 votes in favor; the abstentions belong to the opposing side, now 5:7, this round of voting does not pass, you still need to discuss it." The presiding judge finished reading the voting results.

After hearing the results, No. 2, No. 3, No. 7, No. 9, No. 10, No. 11, and No. 12 all had obvious surprise and irritation on their faces.

Prejudice, discrimination, arrogance...

These are inherent to them. They do not think that a person from a slum is worth spending too much time. For them, watching an entertainment program for more than 20 minutes is more meaningful than being here.

The crux of modern society is that material development has caused many people to gradually lose their personal thinking ability, judgment, and personal independence and critical spirit due to the reduction of intellectual activities or the stylization of thinking.

"Everyone, as No. 8 said, there is only one life. If we are wrong, he will leave this world forever. It is a living life, and his heart is still beating powerfully in this land. We

The reason why we stand here is for justice, so we should be more careful in making voting judgments."

As an elder, No. 4 stood up and said to everyone present.

"Let's continue the collegial discussion." The presiding judge also stood up and motioned to those present to continue the collegial discussion.

"To prove that the child is innocent, several previous evidence points must be overturned."

Number 2 said at this time that he was a white-collar worker.

"First, the testimony of witness Jim, who heard the quarrel between old Colin and Paul; second, the testimony of Mrs. Alice, who saw the figure in the fight, and that figure was obviously Paul Colin. Based on the evidence,

Jim once said that when he saw Paul fleeing, there was no doubt that Paul Colin was the murderer!"

After listening to the words of No. 2, everyone present subconsciously turned to Valente at No. 8. They had already subconsciously identified Valente as a supporter of the innocent party.

Valente started to lower his head and thought for a while. He had actually discovered the loophole in the first proof point. The old man's traveling speed itself was one of the doubts. It was impossible for the other party to cross the road and reach the old man in half a minute.

In the position where Colin died, the opponent's feet did not allow the opponent to do that.

The old man was lying, but Valente couldn't find out his motive for lying now because time was too tight.

Valente looked up at the blond young man in the corner of the round table who only he could see. He now needed the other party to ask something from the old man.

Xia Xiu nodded understandingly. He made a gesture of understanding towards Valente, and then he began to walk out. Now they needed to use a little "outside the game" to ask something from the old man.

After Xia Xiu left, Valente said to the presiding judge:

"President, can I ask for a topographical map of old Colin's house?"

"Of course there is no problem."

The presiding judge quickly went to the information area to find the topographic map of old Colin's house. He handed the topographic map he found to Valente, and after Valente took the topographic map, he flattened it directly on the

On the round table.

Valente took out a pen beside him, then circled a dot in two places, and then drew a straight line.

Everyone watched his operations silently.

"Everyone, I must have seen during the trial that Mr. Jim is an old man with leg problems. When he walked to the witness seat, it took him more than a minute, while a normal person could do it in more than ten seconds.

We’ve arrived.”

Valente pointed to the two dots on the topographic map. One of the dots was the old Colin's house, and the other dot was the temporary settlement built by Jim.

"Old Colin's house is on the far left of the road, while Jim lives in the middle of the road on the opposite side. Even if we choose the straight-line distance, according to the scale conversion, this distance is at least more than 20 meters, and he only took half a minute for this distance?

"

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"Do you believe what he says?"

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the other side.

Jim was whistling happily and walking towards the outside of the court. At this time, the heavy rain outside began to lighten up. The originally huge raindrops had turned into raindrops. Jim tightened his shabby robe and walked into a small

In the alley, and when he first stepped into the alley, something enveloped his head, blocking the rain falling from the sky.

Jim looked up at the sky above him. What shrouded him was a black umbrella. His eyes followed the hand holding the umbrella. A handsome young man with blond hair and golden eyes was reflected in his eyes. He didn't know when the other person was.

He didn't even feel the person holding the umbrella close to him, but the other person was standing next to him.

"Mr. Jim, can I ask you something?"

The handsome face of the blond young man was showing a gentle and polite smile, and his golden vertical pupils reflected Jim's fearful expression.

"Gulong——"

Jim couldn't help but swallowed. The intimidation exuded by the blond young man in front of him made him tremble. He was like a prey being targeted by an apex predator. His heart was floating in a sea of ​​fear.

With.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not a bad person." Xia Xiu comforted him with a smile.

"You...what do you want to ask?" Jim felt his legs swinging wildly, as if he had lost control of his legs.

"Well, my question is very simple."

The blond young man's smile became even warmer, and he asked the old man softly:

"Old man, why did you give false evidence?"

Dong dong dong dong dong dong——

Jim's heart began to beat crazily, and those dazzling vertical pupils occupied his field of vision. From his sight, two suns seemed to rise in the sky, and a sea of ​​fear enveloped him, sinking him and making him sink.

Feeling suffocated.

Must tell the truth!!!

Otherwise you will die!!!

"I, I, I just want to earn some extra money. The police station offers bonuses for witnesses who arrest murderers."

"And... Moreover, the way those people looked at me... made me feel like I had found meaning."

Jim's swaying legs finally couldn't hold on anymore. They overturned like a broken ship overturned by the waves. The old man fell hard to the ground. There was a warm feeling in his crotch, and the pungent temperature dropped from his crotch.

It came out there.

The old man raised his head tremblingly. He wanted to look at the expression of the owner of the two-wheeled sun. Then he discovered that the two-wheeled sun standing above him had no reflection at all.

"Sure enough, responsibility is something we expect others to fulfill, not something we want to fulfill ourselves."

"However, I still advise you to fulfill your responsibilities. After all, your life, which you don't know when it will end, is too empty. If you sell everything in it in the end, it will really be empty."

The figure of the blond young man gradually disappeared, leaving only the old man shivering in the rain.

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In the collegial room.

The rain outside the window began to stop, and the debate in the collegial room continued.

"The second point of testimony is Mrs. Alice. She actually did not commit perjury, but she did not see clearly the true appearance of the struggler..."

Valente's impassioned words continued to echo in the collegial room.

"There are indentations on the glasses. There are obvious indentations on the bridge of Mrs. Alice's nose. This shows that Mrs. Alice had the habit of wearing glasses earlier, but she took them off during the court session today."

"Please carefully recall Mrs. Alice's testimony. What she said is: on the night of the incident, she was lying in bed and tossing and turning, so she planned to open the window to get some air. Unexpectedly, when she opened the window, she saw two people fighting in the room.
To be continued...