Bring it on! (Explosive)
Presiding Judge Hu Jun exchanged a glance with Su Bai.
Then he looked away.
The prosecution and the defense each held to their own position on how this case should be decided.
Neither seemed able to persuade the other, and the courtroom arguments had reached a tense stalemate.
But in reality.
The final authority to accept the prosecution's or the defense's statements lay with him.
He was the main determining factor in the verdict.
To put it plainly.
Once a public prosecution was brought for picking quarrels and provoking trouble, a conviction generally followed.
Why?
Because, generally speaking, picking quarrels and provoking trouble was an offense with broad applicability. How a ruling was made depended on the presiding judge's understanding.
In other words-the power to interpret the law.
The defense's statements had some basis, but if he believed the prosecution's statements had a basis, he could accept them too, without any repercussions.
This case.
The higher-ups attached great importance to it, and Wang An had contacted him.
The prosecution only needed to put forward reasonable grounds for its charges, and he could go through the motions.
Faced with the two sides' dispute, Hu Jun remained silent for a few seconds as presiding judge, then addressed Su Bai:
"The defense's entrusted lawyer stated that Zhang, Li, Xue, and the others used reasonable means to assert their rights."
"Then may I ask, does this reasonable procedure mean holding signs outside someone else's company to assert their rights?"
"Couldn't they report it, or lodge a reasonable complaint with the relevant departments to resolve it?"
"I support asserting one's rights."
"But I do not support asserting one's rights in such an unreasonable manner."
Su Bai: ...
You support asserting one's rights?
*Don't you know perfectly well why they resorted to