When they reached the room, Mira was waiting there in utter boredom. Fang Zheng stepped forward, greeted her, and handed her a sheet of paper.
"Go to Room A and ask these questions one by one. Just record it with the recorder. Ignore whatever he says; just make him answer the questions. Simple, right?"
"Leave it to me!"
Mira had been getting bored waiting around here too. Hearing Fang Zheng's assignment, she immediately perked up, took the paper and glanced over it, then ran off excitedly.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, aren't those the questions we asked before?"
As Mira left, Ran glanced at the paper in her hand and noticed that the questions on it were mostly the same ones they had asked the short, fat man earlier.
"This is called repeated questioning."
Fang Zheng withdrew his gaze and explained it to Ran.
"If you only ask once, no one can know whether the other person made it up. That's why you need to ask several times. Under this kind of intense repeated questioning, anyone with something to hide will definitely let something slip. More importantly, it prevents them from recanting in court."
"Recanting in court?"
"It wasn't common, but it wasn't unheard of either."
Fang Zheng shrugged. In truth, many cases in Conan met the standard for recanting in court. As the police or the prosecution, if you wanted to nail down a case, you had to make sure every piece of evidence was completely accurate. Detectives were different. Once they found the real culprit, their job was done. The police still had to consider the arrest, the trial, and everything that came afterward.
Even if a criminal wept bitterly in front of Conan, then suddenly changed their story in court and claimed that they had only confessed because they