nycdaug Chapter 880 Lawyer
Chapter 880 Lawyer
"You are the beneficiary of Zhou Yuanshan's insurance." I shook my phone, "and there are records of you hiring a private detective to track him." Lin Man suddenly laughed, with a tearful tone in her laughter: "He deserves it! That liar used a fake contract to cheat my family of 300 million yuan!" It turns out that Zhou Yuanshan is not only a control freak, but also a financial fraudster. He forged a jewelry design contract and transferred Lin Man's family assets overseas. Lin Man showed me the bank statement, and the date of the last transfer was the afternoon of the day of the crime. "I wanted to collect evidence to prosecute him. The spotlight exploded into a white light above my head. I adjusted my gold-rimmed glasses and my fingertips touched the hot evidence bag in the inner pocket of my suit. In the dock, Lin Xiaowen hung her head, her chestnut curly hair covering half of her pale face. This popular actress looked like a canary with broken wings at the moment, and I, Lu Chuan, was about to defend her on the charge of murdering her agent. "Lawyer Lu, the prosecution's chain of evidence is complete. The surveillance camera captured your client entering and leaving the deceased's apartment at three in the morning. "The presiding judge knocked the gavel, and the sound echoed in the dome of the courtroom. I flipped open the case file. The words "death by mechanical asphyxiation" on the autopsy report were so painful to the eyes, and the pinch mark in the physical evidence photo clearly did not match the size of Lin Xiaowen's slender fingers. "Objection!" I stood up abruptly, and the hem of my black suit swept across the defense seat. "Isn't it too hasty to determine that my client is the murderer based solely on surveillance and a fingerprint?" The shutter sounds of the media came from the back row of the courtroom. I glanced at the deceased's wife Zhou Wei in the audience. Her hands were shaking as she held the tissue, and the bruises on her neck were faintly visible under the foundation. During the recess, Lin Xiaowen suddenly grabbed my wrist, and her nails dug deep into my skin: "Lawyer Lu, I didn't kill anyone. But there are some things... I can't say. "The burn scar on the inside of her wrist hurt me, a detail that was not mentioned in the police file. At the end of the corridor, Zhou Wei was talking in a low voice with the prosecutor. The diamond earring dangling on her earlobe was exactly the same as the broken diamond I found at the crime scene. The law firm late at night was like a silent fortress. I checked the surveillance video again and again, and suddenly found a blurry figure in the lower left corner of the screen—it was a man in a black hoodie, and the toes of his shoes were stained with red mud, the same composition as the soil in the backyard of the deceased. The phone vibrated at this time, and an anonymous number sent a color message: "Lawyer Lu, the truth is in the funeral home." Pushing open the iron door of the morgue, the smell of formaldehyde was suffocating. I lifted the white cloth, and the edges of the pinch marks on the deceased's neck were strangely purple, obviously caused after death. What's even more frightening is that there was a fresh bite mark on the second joint of his right index finger, and the tooth mark was so clear that it seemed to tear the flesh apart. "Lawyer Lu, are you still investigating the case so late? "A cold voice came from behind. Zhou Wei was wearing a black windbreaker, and her fingers with scarlet nail polish were playing with the car keys. "I advise you not to meddle in other people's business." When she turned around, I caught a glimpse of a fresh scratch on the back of her neck, the shape of which perfectly matched the skin tissue extracted from the nails of the deceased. The next day, when the trial started, I threw out the new evidence from the funeral home, and the court instantly exploded. Zhou Wei's face turned pale, but the prosecutor sneered and took out a recording: "Lawyer Lu, listen to what your client has to say." The moment the play button was pressed, Lin Xiaowen's voice echoed in the court: "Brother Zhang, this is the last time, I don't want to be threatened by you again!" Lin Xiaowen's body trembled violently, and she suddenly yelled at me: "It's fake! They forged the recording!" I looked at her collapsed appearance, thinking of the old injury on her neck when I first met her, and suddenly realized that this murder case might have been an elaborate scheme from beginning to end. The trial was forced to stop. I stopped Zhou Wei in the parking lot, and the taillights of her black Audi flickered in the rain. "Why did you frame Lin Xiaowen? "I took out the evidence bag, and the broken diamonds inside sparkled under the light of the mobile phone. "This earring is the same one you are wearing now." Zhou Wei suddenly laughed, and there was a cry in her laughter: "Because she took away everything that should have belonged to me!" It turned out that Zhou Wei was Lin Xiaowen's assistant and the deceased's underground lover. She showed me the chat records in the mobile phone. The deceased used indecent videos to threaten Lin Xiaowen to accompany drinking, and Zhou Wei planned the murder personally in order to get promoted, and then put the blame on Lin Xiaowen. "Lawyer Lu, do you think the truth is really important in court?" She started the car, and the splashes from the tires wet my trouser legs. "What matters is who can make up the most perfect lie. "The final trial was full of gunpowder. I presented Zhou Wei's criminal evidence one by one, but at the critical moment I found that the key witness was missing - the takeaway man who had seen Zhou Wei entering and leaving the deceased's apartment, his mobile phone was turned off, and the rented house was empty. In court, Zhou Wei put on her elegant mask again and cried to the jury: "I'm just a poor woman who lost her husband..." After the court was adjourned, I was attacked in the underground garage. As sticks rained down on my body, I touched the recorder in my pocket - it was an anonymous express received this morning, which recorded the conversation between Zhou Wei and the murderer. As the ambulance sirens came from far away, I finally saw the tattoo on the attacker's neck, which was exactly the same as the mysterious man in the surveillance. Three months later, the truth came to light. Zhou Wei was sentenced to death for intentional homicide. Lin Xiaowen took off her wig in front of the camera in court, revealing a large bald spot on her head. "I have lived in fear all these years." She stroked the scar, "but now, I finally don't have to lie anymore. "I stood on the rooftop of the law firm, looking at the city's neon lights twisted into a bizarre vortex in the rain. A news push popped up on my phone that a well-known lawyer had his license revoked for falsifying evidence. The night wind wrapped in drizzle hit my face, and I remembered Zhou Wei's last words. I suddenly realized that in this court full of lies, perhaps the real victory is not to win the case, but to let the silent truth speak. However, things did not end there. Late one night, I received a new letter of authorization. The client was a mysterious woman wearing sunglasses. She pushed a case file over. The face of the deceased in the photo was peaceful, but the cause of death was a bizarre "cardiac arrest." "Lawyer Lu," she took off her sunglasses, and the scar at the corner of her eye was hideous. "This time, do you dare to uncover the truth hidden behind the defense? "Thunder exploded outside the window, and lightning illuminated the USB flash drive in her hand. The flashing file name inside made my pupils shrink suddenly - it was top-secret information about a medical accident ten years ago, and the lead defense lawyer at that time was the big shot in the legal world today. I held the pen tightly and signed my name on the commission contract. The ink smudged on the rice paper, just like the lies that can never be washed away on the defense bench.