Edward's cross-examination trick was completely overturned and was about to succeed.

Judge Arnold ordered the complete exclusion of content related to the tape from evidence.

In other words, Santo admitted in court, "He did promise to him that if Sheldon becomes an informant, he would be exempt from prosecution" and the issue of "eavesdropping" will not play any role in the subsequent trial of the court. Sheldon must testify in court for the other two.

Even if the judge gave him a de facto light sentence in the end, for Sheldon, he had already died socially.

Santo went from a lying policeman with a lot of loopholes to a fortress of truth.

He will remain the best and most powerful witness to the prosecution!

Later, Judge Arnold also hinted that in the subsequent trial, he would publicly condemn Carmazepine's cross-examination behavior of "violating professional ethics".

No lawyer is willing to accept such punishment!

This is equivalent to a golden seal of "moral corruption" piercing the lawyer's forehead, accompanying him throughout his career and even his entire life.

Solomon and Henry Puzel said nothing, but just watched all this coldly.

...

Edward left the locker room in a daze.

When he returned to the office, Chris saw his face turned pale and knew that it was not a good thing.

He quickly recruited several other lawyers.

They were also shocked after listening to Edward's narrative.

"Did this guy Arnold enter menopause early? Or did he have a hysteria outbreak?" said Bert Witzleben.

"Yes, why did you suddenly turn 180 degrees?" Barry Slotnik also found it strange.

"There is a motto on the wall of the Ministry of Justice's building, 'When justice is upheld, it is the best commendation of the government'" Kamasiping said coldly, "But in fact, this should be reversed. Justice is only upheld when it is upheld by the government! Do you understand? Who is our opponent? 'Beautiful Solomon', beautiful does not only refer to his face!"

The words make sense, but just talking sarcastic words will not help.

Silari panicked: "What the hell do we do now?"

"Cool!" Edward said casually.

Everyone said "?????"

"Don't worry, when he speaks a foreign language casually, it means his mind is working with a high tension! This is a good thing, proving that he will at least not give up." Hei Daren explained.

"Since that's the case, we will follow the process and write a formal written defense, and submit it to the court on the spot in the form of a memorandum, indicating that our cross-examination is in compliance with the law!"

"This is all we can do." Bert Witzleben thought for a while and agreed, "but what if the other party refuses to accept it?"

"It shouldn't be" Carmazepine touched the top of his head. "If we refuse to accept it, we can appeal directly based on it. Judge Arnold obviously does not want to see this. He would rather accept that we appeal because we are dissatisfied with the judgment than accept that we appeal because of doubts about his procedures. The latter was so ugly that it was spread."

"Okay." Everyone spread their hands and shrugged each other. They all know what this means. In the next few days, everyone should not expect to live a relaxed life. Go to the library to review the precedents.

Just find a similar case, it can prove that Carmazepine's cross-examination trick is legal, thereby overturning Judge Arnold's point of view. If the other party is dissatisfied, then only the Second Circuit Court will see it.

This is the best thing about the judgment and listing method. Even if this case happened 200 years ago, as long as it was included in the case compilation, it would have legal efficiency and could become the basis for the case judgment.

With the foundation, it is much more convenient for lawyers to talk nonsense, and appeal is also convenient, even if they are sued to the Federal High Court.

Lawyers criticizing judges are also a popular subject in the US press. The essence is still the people's distrust of officials, which is in line with the traditional aesthetics of the American public.

Edward was determined to make trouble.

But the premise is to find the right judgment.

...

He returned to court four days later.

Edward was lucky these days. He was a veteran and had a good time. He quickly found a lot of similar examples to prove that "this method (let alone be called a deception witness) has long been regarded as an element of effective cross-examination. Especially for lying witnesses, he needs to create a kind of cross-examination that the person who crossed the testimony has more, less or different evidence than actually grasped." It is a legal plan.

What makes me even more happy is that I found a case with a similar strategy that Lincoln used back then.

It looks like chicken soup in the soul, but it actually happened and has been recorded in full.

The most widely circulated version is as follows:

A man named Grayson was charged with murder, and Lincoln, as his defense attorney, asked in court how the witness saw the defendant commit the crime.

The witness returned and said it was "seeing under the moonlight"

Lincoln then pulled out a calendar from his pocket and opened it, spread it to the witness, pointing out that according to the calendar, there was no moonlight on the night of the incident. Seeing that the trick was exposed, the witness had to admit that he was a criminal.

But in fact, things are not that simple.

Lincoln used a "little trick" to replace the general calendar with a more special calendar.

And the original court record is:

Lincoln: "Does the almanac say that on August 29, on the night of the incident, the moon had just passed the quarter string, not the full moon? In such a faint moonlight, you can see clearly that distance?"

witness:"……"

Lincoln: "So is it written in the calendar that the moon is still hanging in the sky at 11 o'clock that night?"

witness"……"

The defendant was finally released.

This time Edward was so ruthless that he tried to do his copywriting work to the most meticulous.

In order to ensure there are absolutely no loopholes, he also asked Bachruyan Sorokin to fly directly to Harvard University in Massachusetts.

There is the earliest and most comprehensive calendar library in the United States. It is necessary to find the calendar that Lincoln quoted that day.

Bachruyan lived up to his expectations and quickly found the original and consulted the Harvard Planetarium, and finally got the following information.

The calendar does say that "the moon has a quarter string", but the difference between the statement of this book and the general calendar is this: usually the quarter string refers to the moon being exposed, while the calendar book means that one quarter of it is not visible. In other words, at least three-quarters of the moon shines on the earth that day, hanging in the sky all night, the brightness is completely enough! And the witness also swore that he could still see the moon a few hours after the incident.

Moreover, from the trial records, Lincoln never showed the court the difference between the calendar he had in his hands!

Lincoln is actually luring people into misinformation!

"Mom Xipi! The founding father is tempted, I can't tempt him?" Edward hung up the phone and was full of energy again. In his eyes, the law has changed from a human-eating tiger to a little nun, and he can go up and touch it for a few times!

The others were not idle either. They found several valid precedents respectively, and then summarized them to form a very beautiful and regular defense document.

Three days later, the defense lawyer went to the court again. This time there was no prosecution and others. It was just a communication between the defense lawyer team and the judge. As usual, there was a clerk next to him responsible for recording everything.

However, the "Court" was not moved by this professional memorandum.

"Court": "I want to remind the defense lawyers now not to use the attitude of Mr. Edward speaking to me last Friday."

Edward: "Mr. Judge, I don't understand what you mean!"

"Court": "I feel sorry. Now you can start."

Edward: "Did you mean, I was too loud or my tone was too long? Or I had some attitude problems that made you feel uncomfortable?"

"Court": "Reiterate once, the court has no habit of answering questions!"

Edward: "Then let the recorder write that Carmazepine will speak in a calm and quiet tone and with the highest possible respect."

When Edward said this, his stomach thought of the classic story of Hollywood porn star Mae West. "When the judge asked him if he wanted to express his contempt for the court, the elder sister replied: No, I am trying my best to hide my contempt."

When Edward said this, the corners of his mouth were raised high. This time he really looked down on Judge Arnold, and he was now nakedly despising him.

He is only 25 years old after all!

The court laughed: "I'll give you a piece of advice: young people should not be too arrogant."

Even though Edward knew that he couldn't answer this, he became angry and blurted out, "Why are you calling a young man if you don't feel angry?"

"Hey, why did it go so smoothly? It feels like I've been rehearsed..." He also wondered in his heart. Both sides seemed to be talking about lines, and the two sentences were seamlessly connected. "Hey, it seems that my expression is still not domineering enough?"

Chris quickly pulled him down and sat down: "Your mentality is not suitable for talking anymore, let Kamazepine go."

Carmazepine stood up: "The problem now is that we have always believed that we are completely correct in our words and deeds. We have sufficient legal basis to prove this. It is difficult to defend Mr. Sheldon Siegel, but we still do our best to work hard within the scope of the law, to restore his innocence. But the court always believes that our approach is wrong, and that Mr. Edward has a problem with his tone, or ignores our views."

"Court": "It is not appropriate for lawyers to ask questions to the court, you know this!"

"Fuck, which law stipulates so? This old man" Edward scolded in his heart, "The lawyer can't ask a judge? I will win this lawsuit when I hit you to the Supreme Court."

But then I thought that I was not qualified to practice and was discouraged again.

Carbamazepine to low-age qualification.

Hearing the unreasonable difficulties faced by Judge Arnold, he didn't look angry, and he still looked calm: "Of course the lawyer has the right to understand the questions he needs to answer, so as not to cause misunderstandings and inaccurate answers. Isn't this a matter of course?"

"Court": "What do you mean by this?"

It's strange that he could still feel good about himself and give Edward some life experience. At this moment, he was a little scared when facing the sparse Camazepine above his head, as if all the hair that Camazepine had lost ran into his heart.

His premonition was correct.

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Today, Shuiqun, everyone got together a ghost story and came up with a brainstorm:

A programmer went home after working overtime late at night and took a shortcut to go home. There was a tomb on the side of the road (don’t ask why the tomb repairman was on the side of the road. There were ghosts in this story, so don’t care about other things.)

Coders are all atheistic and are not afraid, they just want to go home and sleep.
To be continued...