Chapter 568 Trial (1)

"Relax, Mr. Zhong, you did a good job the day before, as long as you follow our established strategy, I believe the jury will make a fair sentence!" After entering the court, Alan Xiaon seemed to see that Zhong Shi felt a little nervous, so he couldn't help comforting him softly.

  Alan Sean is seventy years old this year, but he looks only in his fifties from the outside. His long-term pampered life has kept him well maintained. He is not too tall, but his back is straight, without the slightest rickety; his hair is carefully combed, and he always wears a vest between his shirt and coat, presenting an old-fashioned retro and tradition. His eyes are piercing, his voice is like a bell, his logic is clear, and his eloquence is eloquent; although he will not make the other party speechless, he can make the other party fall into his own trap without knowing it.

   This is an extremely powerful role, otherwise Zhong Shi's huge team of lawyers would not allow him to be the main defender, and a rising star like Jason Butler can only serve as a second hand. And when the prosecution heard that Zhongshi had invited Alan Sean, they decisively replaced their most powerful prosecutor.

After bypassing the heavily surrounded journalists and the overwhelming spotlights, Zhong Shi’s expression was unavoidably unnatural. This kind of exposure was not what he wanted, but there was no way around it. The media were most willing to follow up on what happened to him. reported. Although both the prosecution and the defense have unanimously decided not to allow the media to appear inside the court, outside the court, the media is chasing and intercepting in an endless stream.

   Zhong Shi's unnaturalness fell into the eyes of Alan Xiaon. He thought that his client was worried about the lawsuit, so he comforted him aloud. In the trial that ended yesterday, the prosecution and the defense began the first round of confrontation, that is, whether Tianyu Fund and Zhongshi had any insider trading against Stanley Corporation. Naturally, the prosecution pointed out in stern terms that Tianyu Fund and Zhongshi himself participated in insider trading and illegally made huge amounts of money. And Alan Xiaon refuted all the allegations with righteous indignation, thinking that the accusations made by the prosecution were all intentional crimes.

  In today's trial, key witnesses will be present, which puts great pressure on Zhong Shi's side.

   "Your Honor, I want to call my witness to testify in court!"

   After standing up to greet the presiding judge, the prosecution's lawyer was the first to stand up and ask for evidence. This burly, young and vigorous prosecutor is named Meade Wolfski, forty years old, and his ancestors are Eastern European immigrants from Boston. After graduating from Yale Law School, he is proficient in civil and criminal litigation. After working in the legal profession for more than ten years, he resolutely jumped to the legal profession because he was going to run for the state legislature and then march towards the throne of governor.

  Everything he does now may be his political capital in the future, so he will go all out this time, vowing to eliminate the foreign "worms" in the capital market of Zhongshi.

  The presiding judge is in his fifties, old, with white beard and hair, wearing a pair of presbyopic glasses, unsmiling, sitting on a high legal table, everything looks majestic and solemn. He first looked in the direction of the jury, and then glanced at the defense lawyers. Seeing that the other party did not raise any objections, he nodded slightly.

   Soon, two bailiffs brought Tom Dorelle to the court, perhaps because he was kicked out by Stanley Company. At this time, he had lost his former vigor and was only wearing simple casual clothes. After arriving at the witness stand, he put his hand on the "Bible" and swore an oath similar to "telling the truth", then sat quietly and waited for the prosecution and defense to cross-examine him in turn.

"Mr. Doyle, do you know the suspect?" Meade walked up to Tom Doyle, stared into the other's eyes for a while, then suddenly pointed to the bell stone sitting next to the defense lawyer team, loudly He said in the direction of the jury, "Perhaps I should ask, have you ever had business contact with the suspect, or have you ever been involved in interests?"

  The twelve jury members are all residents from New York State, including whites, blacks, and one Asian. Occupations include real estate agents, housewives, office workers, truck drivers, etc. After the court sent them the jury documents, the men came to court for selection by attorneys for both sides. In other words, the current jurors have been selected from among the randomly selected people who can attend the jury duty, and the lawyers of both parties believe that they are most likely to be in their own interests.

  Once the members of these juries are selected to enter, there will be special people to manage them, and contact with the outside world is prohibited. This is to prevent public opinion from affecting their judgment during the trial process. During this process, the government will bear the cost of lost work, board and lodging, etc., and this part of the cost is part of the litigation cost.

  Mead Wolfski said this, naturally he wanted to extract Tom Doyle out of the whole matter first, and let the jury know that this person has nothing to do with this case, and he has no motive to frame a person. Tom Doyle naturally understood, and immediately replied without hesitation: "Yes, Mr. Zhongshi and I have no business dealings, and even before that, we have never met."

"Okay!" During Tom Doyle's narration, Mead Wolfski kept staring at the members of the jury. After seeing the thoughtful expression, I was overjoyed, and hit the rails while it was hot, "Then Mr. Doryle, please tell me in detail about your mistakes at work, and how this mistake caused Tianyu Fund and the suspect to take the opportunity to short Stanley's stock." matter."

   "Okay!" Tom Doyle naturally wished for it, and after sorting out his thoughts a little, he explained the "reason" of the matter, "I was originally the chief risk control officer of Stanley Corporation, and in..."

  As he narrated, the context of the whole matter gradually became clear. In the minds of the jury, this matter became that Zhong Shi began to conspire to short Stanley's stock after the negotiation failed, because they learned that Stanley had suffered huge losses in subordinated debt. Later, although Tom Doyle made a mistake in his work, Zhong Shi not only did not remind the other party, but took this opportunity to carry out short selling more brazenly for profit, until he was targeted by the SEC.

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