After Su Bai brought his tactics to bear in Zhang Hongtao's case, the trial proceedings moved considerably faster.
Previously, certain stages of the trial proceedings would be stalled whenever possible, and would not be approved until the final deadline.
Or they would keep saying that some document was wrong, or its formatting was wrong, and reject it to be filled out again.
But now that he had brought his tactics to bear, none of those problems existed anymore.
He had to admit...
Sometimes, unwritten rules and little tricks had to be used when necessary.
Otherwise, if the other side used those unwritten rules and little tricks, his side could only suffer in silence.
And suffer a major loss at that.
Just like in Zhang Hongtao's case, the other side could exploit loopholes and stretch borderline provisions to extend the investigation for supplementary evidence to a full year.
Was a year a long time?
Honestly, not really.
Everyone took their seats.
So...
Find Zhang Hongtao not guilty.
"In the first-instance judgment, we maintain that our client neither perverted the law in judgment nor committed dereliction of duty."
The rulings he had made were all reasonable and grounded in law.
"After all, the presiding judge may also bring a considerable degree of subjectivity to this trial."
"Having a subjective preference is perfectly normal. It is human nature."
So, from that perspective, whichever side the presiding judge favored was reasonable and normal.
This also explained why Zhang Hongtao had shown a preference.
Everyone had their own leanings. In his previous trials, Su Bai had also tried to win over the presiding judge.
"We have filed our request for a second-instance hearing in accordance with the law."
After completing the various trial procedures, Xiao Shan, as presiding judge, directly asked Su Bai to begin