Chapter 254: A witness's false accusation, the accusing lawyer: You want to send me to prison?
In the courtroom.
As Su Bai stated that there were violations in the trial and unlawful procedures, requested a halt to the proceedings, and called for further investigation.
Whether it was the presiding judge and collegial panel members at the judges' bench.
Or the public prosecutor at the prosecution's table, and Wang Qiang and the others at the defendant's table.
None of them understood.
For the collegial panel members and the public prosecutor...
This was a public trial.
If something really went wrong, they would bear corresponding responsibility as well.
So...
They had to get to the bottom of the unlawful procedure Su Bai had mentioned.
Presiding Judge Sun Jun found Su Bai's statement particularly headache-inducing.
This was a public trial to begin with, and the explanation from above was that public pressure surrounding this trial was relatively intense.
So he had specifically looked into the defendant's retained lawyer.
Su Bai, a nationally renowned criminal lawyer who specialized in all kinds of difficult cases.
Almost all the cases he had handled had attracted a certain amount of attention and considerable public discussion.
He had originally tried to turn down this case at the court, but he had been assigned to it because he simply could not get out of it.
Who could have expected Su Bai to assert right from the start that there were unlawful procedures?
Didn't that mean a problem had arisen the moment the trial began?
Still...
As long as the unlawful procedure was not on the court's side, everything would be manageable.
Sun Jun said, "The defendant's retained lawyer has stated that there are unlawful procedures in this trial."
"Would the defendant please specify which procedures are unlawful?"
"And the