Chapter 243: The verdict! Xiao Li: one, two, three... too many to send away!
"Fuck! Isn't this blatant corruption?!"
"I watched this entire hearing! I kept feeling that the prosecutor and the collegial panel were targeting the defendant far too much!"
"Exactly. Watching the whole thing, it was easy to put yourself in the defendant's shoes, and it felt incredibly oppressive!"
"Now the arguments have finally reached their last stage, the court statements, and those are finished too. I'd like to see how the court rules on this hearing!"
"Tsk, tsk... in a normal hearing, they'd definitely announce an acquittal, but that's not so certain here!"
"..."
The court statements were over.
Quite a few lawyers in the livestream chat were complaining, because the hearing they had watched had been particularly outrageous overall.
Why?
Because in an ordinary trial, the hearing should actually have been suspended when Su Bai was examining the evidence.
Either the prosecutor should have produced relevant evidence proving that the evidence had been obtained legally and was authentic,
Or the court should have suspended the proceedings and declared an Adjournment, allowing the prosecution to supplement its evidence before resuming the trial.
But what had the court done?
It had chosen neither option. Instead, it had asked the defendant whether he was certain that what Xia Guangming said was untrue.
???
A lawyer's first reaction would be: were they out of their minds?
What court's presiding judge would ask a question like that?
That alone made it clear that the court had a strongly malicious bias against the defendant.
As lawyers who had studied law and people working in the Legal Community, they certainly could not accept that.
Meanwhile.
Silence fell over the courtroom.
Nearly two minutes passed before Ma Qiao slowly raised his head and