Just after being thrown into the lake, seven beautiful women blocked the door calling him "husb

"Answer me, prosecutor."

"The missing 120 hours".

"Contradictory witness testimonies."

"Is this what you insist on as 'legal procedure'?"

Chen Ye's voice echoed for a long time in the deathly silent courtroom.

Every word was like nailing a coffin lid to the prosecutor across from him.

The young prosecutor's lips trembled, and he couldn't utter a single word.

His face flushed red and then turned pale.

Cold sweat immediately broke out on my forehead.

He had never been so humiliated in his career.

In the presence of a judge of the Supreme Court Circuit Court.

In front of the national media, he was asked the most basic procedural questions and left speechless.

He broke down.

Thoroughly.

"You think you can compete with me for this little bit of work?"

While I was rolling dice in a karaoke bar, you bunch of losers were still memorizing your lessons at law school.

Chen Ye sneered inwardly, not intending to give him a chance to breathe at all.

"Your Honor, since the prosecutor cannot explain the legality of the procedure..."

"Then let's take a look at what he calls 'conclusive and sufficient evidence'."

Chen Ye nodded to Qin Kexin behind him.

"Kexin, upload the picture."

Qin Kexin immediately understood and started operating the laptop.

Inside the courtroom, a huge screen lit up.

An old, yellowed photograph of the scene investigation appeared before everyone.

At the center of the photo is a floral shirt stained with blood.

It lay there all alone in the mud, a shocking sight.

"Objective circumstances?"

Chen Ye repeated the prosecutor's ridiculous excuse.

"Your Honor, the key physical evidence in this case is the weapon used in the crime."

The suspect left behind a floral shirt and a bicycle.

"No fingerprints or DNA tests were conducted throughout the entire process!"

These words were even more explosive than the previous "one hundred and twenty hours"!

A collective gasp rippled through the audience.

The reporters' keyboards were practically sparking with their typing!

"Prosecutor, may I ask your question?"

Chen Ye suddenly pointed his hand at the big screen.

"This floral shirt was identified by the original trial court as belonging to Hao Bin."

Hair and bloodstains were extracted from the clothing.

Why not compare it with Hao Bin's own biological sample?!

Was it because the technology at the time wasn't advanced enough?

"No!"

Chen Ye asked and answered himself, his voice resolute.

"DNA matching has been a standard method for solving homicide cases for the past thirty years!"

"It's not that you can't do it, it's that you're afraid to do it! Or are you just too lazy to do it?!"

"Your so-called 'evidence corroboration'."

It's nothing more than taking a flawed statement and subjectively interpreting the situation at the scene!

It's a matter of "the confession matching the subjective impressions of the scene!"

"Instead of 'objective connection between physical evidence and the defendant'!"

The prosecutor opposite him was already trembling slightly.

His colleague next to him kept nudging him with his elbow under the table.

He was signaled to refute, and to stand up.

But he couldn't stand up.

Every word Chen Ye uttered felt like a mountain pressing down on his spine.

[Useless snack.]

"They can't hold on already? I haven't even played my trump card yet."

Chen Ye shifted his gaze from the prosecutor's pale face.

It landed on the man in the first row of the audience, the one who remained expressionless.

Liu Bo.

His hands were resting on his knees, and the veins on the backs of his fingers were bulging slightly.

A cold, mocking smile curled at the corners of Chen Ye's lips.

He turned around and took two documents from Qin Kexin's hands.

One was Old Zhang's testimony, bearing his bright red fingerprint.

One of them was a USB drive that Wen Guodong earned with the rest of his life.

"Your Honor, the defense requests to present two new pieces of evidence in court!"

The bailiffs stepped forward, took the evidence, and presented it to the judge's bench.

The presiding judge picked up the handwritten testimony and read it carefully.

The other judge inserted the USB drive into the computer.

"More importantly!"

Chen Ye's voice once again resounded throughout the courtroom.

"There was someone who told you the truth more than a decade ago!"

"Wang Yunjin!"

When the name is called out.

Liu Bo, who was in the audience, suddenly shuddered!

"That serial killer who has taken several lives!"

When he was brought to justice, he told the investigators...

This is the key witness today, Grandpa Zhang, giving his own testimony!

"He said he also committed the rape and murder case in Qinghe County!"

"He said he couldn't let that kid surnamed Hao take the blame for him for nothing!"

Chen Ye paused for a moment, giving everyone time to process what he had said.

Then, he looked at the presiding judge, whose face was solemn.

"Your Honor, I believe you have already seen the contents of the USB drive."

"Wang Yunjin's confession included a previously unknown, hidden detail!"

"He hid the victim Tang Qian's sandals in a crevice in a cornfield near the crime scene!"

"This detail matches perfectly with the police's on-site investigation report!"

The air in the entire courtroom instantly ignited!

If the previous procedural issues and missing DNA were merely reasons for suspicion...

The appearance of this hidden detail is almost the final word!

Hao Bin's parents were stunned when they heard those words.

Unable to hold back any longer, they hugged each other and burst into tears!

More than a decade of injustice, more than a decade of waiting!

Finally, we're about to see the light!

"Prosecutor, may I ask your question?"

Chen Ye's gaze, like a sharp sword, pierced the other side once more.

"If he hadn't committed the crime himself, Wang Yunjin would have been in another city."

How did they know this detail, which even the police hadn't released?!

"Does he have precognitive abilities, or does he have clairvoyance?!"

This time, before the presiding judge could even speak...

The prosecutor, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, suddenly stood up!

He panicked!

"be opposed to!"

"The defense's claims are pure conjecture!"

"Wang Yunjin's confession contains many contradictions!"

The tools he described as used in the crime did not match those found at the scene at all!

"Moreover, there is no direct physical evidence to prove that it was present at the crime scene!"

This confession cannot be used as grounds for overturning the original judgment!

He finally fought back.

Although, this counterattack sounds so weak and feeble.

On the defense stand, Li Zhe and Wang Hao watched Chen Ye nervously.

Anran's little hands were also tightly gripping the hem of her clothes.

Only Qin Kexin, watching Chen Ye's retreating figure, was filled with confidence.

[Oh? So now we're having a contest to see whose testimony is worse?]

"Sure, I love this kind of thing."

Chen Ye smiled.

"The prosecutor said that Wang Yunjin's testimony was contradictory?"

"Well said!"

He slammed his hand on the table!

"Then, I ask you, are there no contradictions in the original defendant Hao Bin's testimony?!"

"In his confession, Hao Bin repeatedly emphasized that his weapon was a 'dagger'!"

However, the original court ultimately determined that the weapon used in the crime was a "wooden stick"!

Hao Bin confessed that the time of the crime was "9 p.m."

However, multiple witness testimonies, including those of the victim's parents, corroborated this.

The victim disappeared around 7 PM!

"These are also recorded in the same volume, in black and white, yet they are huge contradictions!"

Why were you turned a blind eye to this during the original trial?!

"Why is it that Wang Yunjin's contradictory testimony is unbelievable!"

"And the contradictions in Hao Bin's testimony have become trivial details that can be ignored?!"

"What kind of bullshit logic is this? Whose law is this?!"

Chen Ye pressed on relentlessly, his words sharp and incisive!

The reason why Wang Yunjin's confession is contradictory.

"Precisely because the incident happened so long ago, the memory has become hazy!"

"But! The subtle detail he gave about the sandals is absolutely impossible to fabricate!"

The prosecutor was speechless when questioned and couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

He felt like he wasn't in a courtroom, but in a slaughterhouse.

And he was the lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

Chen Ye, on the other hand, is the man wielding the butcher's knife.

Chen Ye took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

He turned around, facing the judge's bench and the entire courtroom.

His voice was no longer impassioned, but it was like a needle piercing the heart of everyone present.

"Your Honor, judges of the panel."

"Today, we stand here."

"We are presenting this evidence not to convict another criminal."

"We are not trying to prove that Wang Yunjin is definitely the real culprit."

He paused, his gaze sweeping across the room.

The camera swept past Hao Bin's weeping parents and past the reporter writing furiously.

He glanced at the tense yet admiring team behind him.

Finally, the image focuses on Liu Bo's ashen face.

"We're here to prove that Hao Bin—is not the real killer!"

"Innocence is presumed!"

Chen Ye's voice, like a thunderclap from a clear sky, exploded in everyone's ears!

"These four words are the basic principles of the Criminal Procedure Law!"

It's an ironclad rule written into every law textbook!

This is a belief that every legal professional should etch into their very bones!

"It is the bottom line of the rule of law!"

The words fell.

The entire courtroom was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone was stunned by the immense power contained in those four words, their scalps tingling.

In the audience.

Liu Bo's hand, which was resting on his knee, trembled violently.

He picked up the thermos on the table, wanting to drink some water to cover up his lapse in composure.

However, his hands wouldn't obey him.

"Clang—!"

A sharp, piercing sound.

The stainless steel thermos slipped from his trembling hands.

It crashed heavily onto the smooth ground.