Chapter 126: Confronting the prosecution!

Inside Baijun Law Firm.

Su Bai told Li Xuezhen to contact this client.

And to tell her that if she had time, and if it was confirmed that this case was true and involved no false issues.

Then she could come to Nandu, and Baijun Law Firm could take this case.

Or, she could first leave contact information as well.

After hearing Su Bai’s arrangement, Li Xuezhen nodded heavily.

“Alright, Lawyer Su. I will go contact the client in this case right now…”

Da da da.

Li Xuezhen left the office and walked out.

At the same time.

Jiangdu.

In Jiangdu, a woman nearly fifty years old was staring tightly at her phone, her face full of worry.

“This Lawyer Su…”

“I do not know whether Lawyer Su will see the message I sent. Will he perhaps not reply to me…”

The woman placed the phone against her chest, and from time to time took the phone out again to look at it several times.

Her heart was full of worry.

She was the person who had sent the private message. On the internet, she often followed legal hearing events, and the purpose was to find a good lawyer to litigate the case.

By chance she had seen Baijun Law Firm on the internet, and after learning about Baijun Law Firm and Lawyer Su Bai’s ability in litigation.

She wanted to ask Su Bai to litigate the case.

Therefore, through Baijun Law Firm’s short video account, she sent information regarding her case.

Before this.

She had also consulted quite a number of lawyers, but there had been no result.

Facing the hope she had placed in this matter, she was extremely worried in her heart.

If this time consulting Lawyer Su also produced no result, then she did not know what she should do.

The woman’s mood was uneasy.

From time to time she took out her phone to see whether any reply had come back.

In the end, she even directly stared at the phone screen.

After about twenty minutes passed, the woman let out a long sigh, and a trace of despair flashed through her eyes.

But at this moment, the phone screen lit up, and when the woman saw the message notification, she hurriedly opened the phone.

Baijun Law Firm: Hello, we have already understood your situation, but we cannot confirm your true identity information.
If you have a need to entrust Baijun Law Firm, you may directly come to the fifth floor of Integrity Building, Nandu, xxx.
Or provide your basic information and photographs of the judgment document or other supporting documents that can verify your identity.
After our law firm verifies your information, we will go to Jiangdu to further understand this case.

After seeing Baijun Law Firm’s message.

The whole woman was stunned for several seconds, and then quickly replied: Alright Lawyer Su, either way is fine, either way is fine.

After replying to the message, the woman let out a long breath and silently recited:

With Lawyer Su, she believed that the law would definitely return justice to her!

Inside Baijun Law Firm.

After Li Xuezhen sent out the information, she immediately received a reply.

Looking at the replied information, Li Xuezhen again walked into the office.

And handed the information to Su Bai for a look.

Su Bai looked at the information and slightly nodded.

The other party had sent her personal identification information.

And had actively said that she wanted to come to Nandu to discuss the case.

Seen in this way, the entrustment of this case should be real.

It was not that he was deliberately asking the other party for identification information.

Rather, it was only in order to verify the authenticity of the case.

On the internet.

There might very well be people who intentionally played tricks on others and deliberately sent some false cases to inquire about.

Or took some very old cases to test lawyers.

These situations were not uncommon.

In order to distinguish between a real case and a false case, naturally some effort was required.

If it was a real case, then when faced with the requirement to provide corresponding identification materials, they would definitely agree.

But if it was a false case, then most likely there would be no further response.

This was also one method by which some law firms generally screened case sources on the internet.

Su Bai spoke: “Since the other party requests to come to Nandu, then Lawyer Li, please make the arrangements.”

“Alright, Lawyer Su.”

Li Xuezhen nodded seriously.

After Li Xuezhen left, only then did Su Bai begin extracting the general information of this lawsuit from the first instance judgment.

To summarize.

This was a public prosecution case, a boy who had just reached adulthood, accused of sexually assaulting a woman, and afterward cruelly killing the woman.

The public prosecution proposed.

A death sentence.

The court listened to the opinions provided by the public prosecution.

But because approval of the death sentence was not passed, and because the Supreme Court provided a certain degree of guidance, a sentence of life imprisonment was imposed.

The convicted offender, up to now, had already served six full years in prison.

Hiss.

Six years.

A boy who had just reached adulthood had directly been detained in prison for six years.

If this case were not overturned, then what awaited him would be continued detention life for several more decades.

Su Bai rubbed his brow.

Judging from the judgment document, there did not seem to be any particularly great problem.

But with cases like this.

One could not look according to the judgment document, one also needed to look according to the evidence.

Therefore, in this case, it was absolutely necessary to wait until the case file was obtained before the specific situation could be determined.

However.

There was a very interesting point written in the judgment document.

That was that the offender steadfastly refused to confess guilt.

This steadfast refusal to confess guilt.

And.

Forget it forget it.

After the client comes over, they can speak again.

Without the case file, one cannot rely only on subjectivity to determine this case.

At present the client in this case had not yet arrived. Su Bai stood up, slowly stretched, and then walked out of the office.

Baijun Law Firm occupied the entire fifth floor.

The fifth floor space was still not small.

There were four offices, among which Su Bai’s office was the largest, and the other two offices belonged respectively to Xu Xiang and Duan Liang, while the last office was vacant.

As for the rest.

The intern lawyers and administrative legal personnel all worked in the hall.

Su Bai knocked on the door of Xu Xiang’s office.

At this moment Xu Xiang was organizing the materials of the case at hand, and after seeing Su Bai walk in, he smiled and spoke:

“Lawyer Su, why have you come over?”

“Is there some case you want to hand over to me to handle?”

Su Bai smiled and spoke: “Did you not ask me yesterday how a criminal case should be handled?”

“Why are you suddenly asking me why I came?”

“Your memory needs improvement!”

Upon hearing this, Xu Xiang fiercely slapped his forehead.

“Lawyer Su, I forgot this because I was busy. Recently there have been quite a lot of cases taken on, and after being busy and busy, I became muddled from the busyness.

That criminal case I mentioned to you before indeed is not very easy to handle.”

“This case is like this, this man is involved in intentional homicide, and he killed three people in succession. On my side I am doing sentence reduction defense.”

“Three? What kind of deep hatred was this, that he killed three in succession?”

“The woman committed marriage fraud, used the man’s money to support her ex husband, the child was not his biological child, and he was also looked down upon by the woman.”

“In a fit of anger it became like this.”

“…”

Hiss.

This. His anger value was completely filled.

After hearing Xu Xiang’s description, Su Bai was silent for two seconds and then spoke:

“In this case, doing sentence reduction defense is very difficult. Most likely it will be the death penalty, though one still needs to look at the process and the reasons. There is only a very small probability that it can be sentenced to death with reprieve. First tell me the course of the crime.”

“Alright, Lawyer Su.”

Xu Xiang then spoke and described the case in detail.

After Su Bai slightly furrowed his brow, he spoke:

“In this case, one can argue and defend from the two angles of the perpetrator’s psychological state and the circumstances of voluntary surrender.”

“Do not concern yourself with anything else, just let the client directly plead guilty and accept punishment.”

“With this kind of case possessing factual basis, the evidence and other aspects are estimated already to be fixed. Just argue and defend from these two angles. As for to what extent it can reach, that will need to depend on the adjudicators’ determination.”

“Alright, Lawyer Su, I have noted it down.”

After resolving Xu Xiang’s problem, Su Bai walked out of his office.

After looking around once at the intern lawyers in the hall, he nodded with satisfaction.

The growth of the law firm was just around the corner.

However.

When passing Li Xuezhen’s workstation.

Hm? Criminal law?

Not bad!

But these circles and marks on the criminal law provisions looked somewhat strange.

Jiangdu.

The first thing Li Xiangfang did after receiving the message from Baijun Law Firm was to buy a high speed rail ticket for that same day.

The distance from Jiangdu to Nandu was not far, and the high speed rail took about one and a half hours.

After getting off the train.

At about two thirty in the afternoon, she arrived at Integrity Building.

Integrity Building, fifth floor.

After Li Xiangfang sent a message to Li Xuezhen, she nervously looked inside toward Baijun Law Firm.

Her palms continually perspired.

Only after seeing the three silk banners directly facing the glass doors inside Baijun Law Firm did she slightly relax.

Immediately afterward she saw a Pikachu female lawyer smiling as she came in front of her.

“Hello, may I ask whether you are Ms. Li?”

“Yes. I am Li Xiangfang.”

“Alright, I am Lawyer Su Bai’s assistant lawyer, my name is Li Xuezhen. Please come inside.”

“Alright.”

Li Xiangfang followed Li Xuezhen into the office.

Inside the office.

Li Xiangfang looked at Su Bai nervously.

Su Bai smiled and indicated that Li Xiangfang need not be so nervous, and at the same time poured her a cup of purified water.

Li Xiangfang smiled and spoke to express thanks, hurriedly taking the water cup with both hands: “Thank you. Thank you, Lawyer Su.”

“It is alright.”

Su Bai sat down, and Li Xuezhen sat at Su Bai’s left side.

Su Bai smiled and handed a set of materials to Li Xiangfang, speaking:

“This is the general situation at that time that I summarized according to the first instance judgment document. First take a look and see whether there is any problem.”

“Alright, Lawyer Su.”

Li Xiangfang took the materials, narrowed her eyes, and looked at the materials.

This set of materials consisted of the problematic doubtful points that Su Bai had organized according to the fact that during the first instance the party steadfastly refused to confess guilt at the hearing.

Among them were included some evidentiary problems.

And also some issues with the prosecution’s views.

If this set of materials, once definitely verified, could prove that these issues and doubtful points indeed had problems.

Then this case would be somewhat major.

It would completely belong to a wrongful conviction and false case, and moreover a relatively major wrongful conviction and false case.

Twenty minutes later, Li Xiangfang placed the materials on the table and pushed them in front of Su Bai.

“Lawyer Su, as for the specific situation, in fact I also do not know what exactly happened, but my son, at that time, had only just finished the college entrance examination not long before. He was such a sensible child ordinarily, and I believe he would not do that kind of thing.”

“And moreover.”

“My son always told me that he had not done any illegal or criminal thing. He said he had not committed a crime.”

“Lawyer Su, I believe my son.”

Li Xiangfang seemed to think of something and then hurriedly added one more sentence:

“Lawyer Su, I am not being partial to my son, truly, what I am saying is true.”

Su Bai slightly nodded, did not express his own subjective attitude, and instead smiled and comforted her with one sentence.

“I did not say that what you said was false, but the specific situation still requires looking at more evidence and the first instance case file, and also the detailed factual process.”

“This case is somewhat old in time, and the things and contents it involves are rather numerous, so a certain amount of time is needed for investigation.”

Su Bai could understand Li Xiangfang’s thoughts.

After hearing Su Bai’s words, Li Xiangfang slightly nodded: “Lawyer Su, I understand. I can understand.”

“But this case. Lawyer Su, if what I say is true. Can this case be won?”

Li Xiangfang’s anxious and slightly expectant gaze fell upon Su Bai’s face.

After lightly exhaling a breath, Su Bai smiled and spoke:

“This case has not yet undergone concrete understanding, but if one goes by your description, the possibility of winning is very great.”

“With respect to this case, our law firm will do its utmost.”

“If you trust that our law firm can handle it well, you may first sign an entrustment agency agreement.”

“This will help us further understand this case better.”

“Alright. Lawyer Su.”

“I have seen Lawyer Su litigate on the internet, and Lawyer Su is very formidable in litigation. I trust Lawyer Su.”

“If Lawyer Su is willing to accept agency entrustment for this case, then I will sign directly.”

Upon hearing these words, Su Bai told Li Xuezhen to take an entrustment agency agreement.

And hand it before Li Xiangfang.

“You may first look at this entrustment agency agreement, and if after confirming there is no problem, you may sign it.”

“Alright.”

Li Xiangfang roughly went through the contents of the entrustment agency agreement before her eyes.

Then she used a pen to sign her name on the entrustment agency agreement.

Immediately afterward, she pushed the entrustment agency agreement in front of Su Bai and quietly said: “Lawyer Su, this way is alright, yes?”

Su Bai smiled and nodded.

“It is alright.”

After signing the entrustment agency agreement, Su Bai asked Li Xiangfang several more questions.

“For this case, did you at that time not file any appeal?”

“I looked through your case, and it seems that only a first instance judgment was conducted.”

“And also.”

“Did you try using the internet as a way to seek legal assistance?”

Upon hearing the questions Su Bai asked.

Li Xiangfang let out a long sigh: “Lawyer Su. We did not understand. I am a single mother, and the child’s father passed away long ago.”

“At that time I had thought about a second instance appeal, but.”

“But what, any worries you had may all be spoken.”

At the same time, when Su Bai was asking, Li Xuezhen at the side suddenly had her eyes light up.

But!

Behind this but, there was great gossip!!

Was the achievement point coming?!

Facing Su Bai’s follow up question, Li Xiangfang held nothing back, sighed again, and then said:

“The reason there was no second instance was that at that time someone told me that if I continued the appeal, it might be sentenced even more heavily. It was even possible that it would directly be sentenced to death. So I did not dare continue the appeal.”

“Later I learned that it might not be sentenced more heavily. I wanted to look for other lawyers to take this case, but after asking other lawyers, they said this case was very difficult to win. I asked why it was difficult to win. They only said that their own level was not good, and also because too much time had passed, they were unwilling to take over this case.”

“Then. I saw on the internet that Lawyer Su was so formidable in litigation, and so I found Lawyer Su.”

“As for going online to seek help.”

“This. I do not really understand going online and things like that. Previously I saw people posting things online, but I do not know how to do it. I also posted several times, but it was of no use.”

After Li Xiangfang finished her statement.

Su Bai nodded.

Indeed, for an older person unfamiliar with the internet, posting things online and such was indeed not very realistic.

However.

Su Bai’s point of attention was the first point.

No, someone had actually told Li Xiangfang that if she continued the appeal, the sentence would become even heavier?

This. What kind of mindset was this?!

Without new major evidence, how could it possibly be sentenced more heavily?

It was already life imprisonment. Could it be that in the second instance there would still be a death sentence with reprieve?

Su Bai let out a long breath. If everything Li Xiangfang said was true and there were no major problems.

Then this case might contain a series of problems.

It was very likely that it involved confronting the prosecution and the law enforcement side?

Hiss.

Su Bai rubbed his brow. This case indeed was not easy to resolve.

Little Li, however, blinked her eyes.

This case was very remarkable!

Achievement point plus plus plus plus one!!!