When the court bell rang nine times, Zhou Ming and the others announced their entry. Zhou Ming followed Deputy Attorney General Clark and lawyer Allen into the court. The court in Brighton City was similar to what he had seen in American dramas before. The judge's seat was on the front. The judge's seat was on the face of the plaintiff and the defendant, behind it was a hearing seat, and there were seven jury members next to it. There were at least two bailiffs guarding each exit of the court.

Zhou Ming and Clark Allen sat in the plaintiff's dock, and there was the dock across the aisle. Zhou Ming then saw the lawyer Sapiro who had both the deputy attorney general and the future White House legal counsel. He sat behind Brooke, next to the old man who had looked for Zhou Ming.

Sapiro is a tall and thin Jew. He wore a pair of black-framed glasses and his small eyes were like poisonous snakes. He hid behind the glasses and looked back at Zhou Ming and others.

Through Allen's previous introduction, Zhou Ming has already remembered this lawyer Sapiro, who is a gold-medal lawyer at the New York Dream Law Firm, with a rich legal foundation and agile mind. What Zhou Ming remembers him the most is the Simpson case a few years later. In that battle between money and law, Simpson's lawyer team helped Simpson successfully escape under his leadership.

Since then, Barrister Sapiro has become famous and has become the most famous barrister in the United States. However, that is a later story. Although he has not reached that level yet, his abilities still exist and cannot be underestimated.

When Zhou Ming was observing Sapiro, Sapiro was also observing Zhou Ming. Brooke's old housekeeper asked him how he was. Sapiro replied: I know Deputy Attorney General Clark and lawyer Alan, and have dealt with them. I can understand their way of thinking and practices, so there is basically no problem, but where did that Chinese come from, his eyes make people feel very interesting.

That is Zhou Ming, who I told you, is the plaintiff in the joint lawsuit, and he is not a lawyer. The old man said.

Sapiro repeatedly said Zhou Ming's name several times and remembered it silently. A few minutes later, a 50-year-old judge walked into the court. This was the presiding judge of this case, John, who sat in his own seat to announce the trial.

First, Deputy Attorney General Clark spoke, and he stood up and said: Dear Judge and all the jurors, Good morning, what I am here to tell you today is the malice that happened on campus. We know that the campus should have been pure and beautiful, but today the defendant is a demon who maliciously wants to destroy all this. Please forgive me for using this word, but only this word can best describe it.

Listening to Clark's speech, Zhou Ming had a new understanding of American justice, because if he was in China, according to the tradition of Chinese people, he would be careless when he was at the same time. But in the United States, this prosecutor came to such a vicious word characterization.

After Clark, the speech of lawyer Allen, he stood up and said: Judge and all the jurors, my client, Mr. Zhou Ming, is a student who came from China to study at Harvard. He came to the United States with his dream. He started a business in school. This is very encouraged by the law. However, Brooke has been destroying Zhou Ming's entrepreneurship due to his jealousy, and even used very despicable and cunning means.

If such a person cannot be convicted, it is hard for me to imagine that he will do anything in the future. Allen continued, would he take a gun into the campus to create a shooting tomorrow, and would he go to blow up the Pentagon the day after tomorrow.

Allen's words were generally similar to Clark, but he emphasized that Brook must be convicted.

After Clark and Allen finished speaking, Sapiro stood up with the judge's permission. He said: Judge and all the jurors, I believe everyone has their own children, and everyone understands that children like to play and join in the fun. I believe that my client must have some conflict with Mr. Zhou Ming, and the facts can prove this.

According to my client, he was beaten by Zhou Ming, so I have very reason to suspect that he was deliberately fabricating facts and maliciously framed my client because there was no evidence to directly prove that my client planned the riot. Sapiro said.

After both parties made statements about the case, a student was invited to court. Clark stood up and asked the witness: You are a Harvard student and smashed and robbed at the convenience store of the Corland College dormitory. Did you see Brooke over there who was also present and what did that Brooke do, are you applauding the riot?

Regarding the series of questions from Clark, the classmate nodded and answered affirmatively. Clark sat back in his seat, and Sapiro stood up and asked: I don’t have so many questions, I only have one very important question, is whether you have seen Brooke plotting this riot directly

Hearing this question, Allen immediately stood up and raised his hand to signal the judge: I object, now we are asking witnesses on the scene, and we should not ask such an obvious misleading question.

Sapiro said: I don't think this is misleading, because we cannot judge by guessing and imagination if we have seen any convictions directly related to my client.

The judge's ruling: Opposition is invalid, witnesses are asked to answer the defense lawyer's question.

I didn't see it directly.

The classmate replied that he wanted to say more, but Sapiro did not give him this opportunity and said directly: OK, sir, I think my question has been finished.

The two black brothers who were making trouble at the door of the convenience store in the dormitory. This time they stood up and asked Allen: You are also a Harvard student, and your brother was sick after eating an expired sandwich, right?

In response to Allen's inquiry, the black man answered yes. Allen then asked him: So since your brother is already sick, why didn't you take him to the hospital, but instead took him into the Corland dormitory building to find a convenience store.

I think my brother is sick from eating the sandwich here, I can ask them for compensation

The black man stammered and Alan immediately asked: But according to the examination certificate issued by the hospital, your brother was not sick at all, which means that your behavior that day was a fraud. I ask you, is someone asking you to buy sandwiches from a dormitory convenience store, and then pretending to be sick and go to the dormitory convenience store to blackmail and cause riots. Is the person behind you who instructs you to be Brooke there?

This time it was Sapiro who opposed it: Judge, I think the question of lawyer Allen is purely imposed on the witnesses by personal speculation, which is a distorted understanding of the facts. I requested proof that I refused to answer this question.

Allen said: I don’t think so. These two classmates are the direct responsible persons for this incident. Their testimony will be directly related to the characterization of the case. Whether it is a temporary fraud case or a long-planned riot fraud depends entirely on the witness’s testimony. This is very important and necessary, so the witness must answer.

The judge ruled: Witnesses please answer lawyer Allen's inquiry positively.

The black classmate nodded and said: Yes, I was instructed by Brooke to go to the dormitory convenience store to create fraud and riots.

Then why did Brooke ask you to do this and what is your relationship with him? Alan asked again.

Brooke told us that he hated Zhou Ming very much. He knew that Zhou Ming had opened a dormitory convenience store and knew that he had made a lot of money, so he said he wanted to teach him a lesson. He said that Zhou Ming's dormitory convenience store had no procedures, and said that as long as we make trouble with him, as long as we call the police, he would give us a lot of money, and he would give us a lot of money afterwards. The black man replied that our relationship with Brooke was friends.

Can you guarantee that everything you say is true? Do you have any evidence to prove what you say? Alan immediately asks.

The black man nodded and replied: I promise everything I said is true and reliable. Brooke and I are members of the football team, and all the football players can prove my relationship with Brooke.

Hearing this answer, Allen said: Judge and all the jurors, I think the situation is already very obvious now, this is a case of planning to create riots.

Allen pointed at Brooke over there and continued: Brooke, because he had a conflict with my client, he always wanted to retaliate against my client. Now that I see that my client is very successful in doing things, he instructed people to go to the door of the dormitory convenience store out of jealousy, trying to destroy the normal operation of the dormitory convenience store with such behavior. This behavior is very shameful and evil. Brooke, the mastermind behind the matter, deserves to be convicted.

Sapiro stood up and said: I object, I think the witness's testimony is likely to be exonerating himself, so his testimony alone is not enough to prove my client's guilt.

So I have another witness, Allen said, Zyra, a female teacher in the Department of Economics at Harvard Business School, once heard Brooke arrange this behind his back, and I asked the court to allow Zyra to appear in court to testify.

The judge agreed to the hammer, and then Teacher Jiela walked to the witness stand under the escort of the bailiff. Her appearance made everyone in the court lit up. Jiela stated: At that time, I was on the balcony of the dormitory, and I happened to hear Brooke talking to his friend downstairs, saying that he wanted to teach Zhou Ming a lesson and mess up Zhou Ming’s dormitory convenience store.

As Zera finished her testimony, the first court hearing ended. Deputy Attorney General Clark and lawyer Allen walked out of the court to shake hands and celebrate. Clark said: Allen is worthy of being the most famous barrister in Massachusetts. Today, the court made this step in the court, which made Sapiro not have the ability to resist at all. I believe Brooke will definitely be convicted.
Chapter completed!