Crazy, You Call This a Trainee Lawyer Chapter 466

   Chapter 466 Pre-trial, compassion, friend loan?

   Monday, pre-trial day.

   Municipal Court, Judge's Office.

   "The first judge called me yesterday. Obviously he didn't think about the issue of online public opinion."

   "He called me personally on the day off, and he specially emphasized the case. Do you know how bad I am now?"

   "I can't wait to scold you now. I know some swear words are hard to say, but these words are stuck in my throat!"

  Ni Qiuping sat in the judge's seat, looking at the three people in front of him, with a "I'm about to stop cursing" expression on his face.

   But because it was Judge Ni Qiuping, this expression seemed so natural in Zhang Wei's eyes.

   "Old Ni, calm down, it's just some internet public opinion, relax~"

   "Look at me, never read those online comments about me. The difference is that you eat well, and sleep well."

   "In my opinion, you and the first judge are all unfounded worries. The free Internet section is responsible for the guidance of online public opinion. What are you worrying about?"

   Zhang Wei laughed, and quickly said a few words to smooth things out.

   "Shut up you!"

   But Ni Qiuping gave him a vicious look.

   However, the deterrent power of this glance may be clear to both parties.

   Ni Qiuping looked at the other party again.

  Master Tang sat upright on the visitor chair at the back, and standing in front of him and confronting Zhang Wei was his disciple Sun Kongwen.

   "Judge Ni, we don't know about these online public opinions, and we don't know how they affect this case, so that you have to convene a private tripartite meeting before the pre-trial."

  Shut up for me too, okay?

  You don't know?

  Do you think you are too smart, or do you think I, Ni Qiuping, have a hole in my head, can you believe your lie?

   Yesterday, half of the top headlines that were hotly searched on the Dongfangdu Internet were all yours, right?

  You can still stand here and talk nonsense, I have to admire you too, I really found a good teacher.

  Sun Kongwen's words made Ni Qiuping crazily complain.

   However, her face remained relatively calm.

   "Well then, I'll tell you, this time, don't think about playing tricks and tricks, just be honest with me, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!"

After    warned, Ni Qiuping waved and sent Zhang Wei and Master Sun Kongwen Tang away.

   Office entrance.

   Zhang Wei and Master Tang walked out side by side. Sun Kongwen, as his apprentice, followed behind the master.

   The two took a few steps, and neither of them spoke first.

   "Old Tang, you are not kind."

   In the end, Zhang Wei was the first to break the silence.

   "Lawyer Zhang, what do you mean by this?"

   "Old Tang, there are no outsiders here, you don't have to hide it."

Zhang Wei laughed and said in a low voice: "Being Yuan Dong and his father, and then putting the blame on me, and then bribing the hot search, let the navy and the trolls black me, you are planning to throw dirty water on me! "

   "Lawyer Zhang, I don't know what you are talking about. The death of Yuan Dong and his father has nothing to do with me at all."

  Master Tang first denied it, and then smiled: "But your follow-up operation surprised me. I didn't even expect that you didn't refute the rumor at all, but instead broke the information of our Tiger Hall!"

   "That's all I found casually, it's all unconfirmed news, and ah, Master Tang..."

   Zhang Wei said, leaned into Master Tang's ear and sneered, "I stopped using your routine decades ago."

   Master Tang's complexion changed slightly, but quickly subsided.

   "That lawyer, we have a winner in court."

   "It's nature."

   The two walked into the courtroom one after the other.

   Zhang Wei came to the plaintiff's box, while Master Tang and his apprentice sat in the defendant's box.

   In the dock, there is also Qian Moli of Dongxing Securities.

   At this moment, this President Qian is staring at Zhang Wei and the people around him with a wicked look mixed with jokes and ridicule.

   On Zhang Wei's side of the plaintiff, there are Xia Qianyue, a couple and their daughter who are still in their arms. This is a representative of the family members specially selected by Zhang Wei.

   A couple with a woman who is still in the infant, this is the most to the jury's attention.

"All rise!"

  As Tingwei announced, Ni Qiuping walked into the scene wearing a dark robe.

   Everyone in the audience stood up and saluted her.

   "All sit down!"

   After Ni Qiuping took his seat, he glanced at the audience and waved his hands at will after confirming that the prosecution and defense were all present.

   Everyone took their seats, and she looked at the prosecution.

   "Zhang Wei, you guys start first, Ma Liudi!"

  It seems that Lao Ni has recovered.

   Zhang Wei naturally straightened his collar and went to court.

"Cough, let me introduce myself first. I am Zhang Wei, the lawyer representing the plaintiff, and the initiator of the class action lawsuit against Dongxing Securities, but I believe that you have often seen hot searches about me recently. "

   "But I'm also very scared at the moment, because I have to compete with the famous Tiger Hall, and I'm so nervous~"

   As soon as these words came out, many people in the hearing box looked at him, and many people in the candidate jury also looked over.

  In the dock, Master Tang glanced at the court.

   But Ni Qiuping gave him a sharp look, which was to warn him not to push too hard.

   This counterattack made Master Tang look unhappy on his face.

   Now that the judge has spoken, he is too lazy to bother.

   After all, it is the plaintiff who is speaking now, and it is a statement of claim, and there is no way to object to interrupting the other party.

   Zhang Wei, after teasing his recent hot search situation, finally returned to the topic.

   His expression was solemn, and his tone was sincere: "Financial fraud, I believe many people have come into contact with it, right?"

   "Do you have people calling you to invest every day, recommending your stocks, recommending you to copy futures, soybeans, stamps, oil, various agricultural products, and even precious metals?"

"I want to ask if you've ever had your heart set on it, have you been moved by the benefits they told you, invested tens of thousands of dollars, and prepared to make a lot of money in this futures market or financial market, earning the first pot of gold in your life, Or even achieve financial freedom?"

   "But I can only say that the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel!"

   Zhang Wei said, shook his head and said: "There is a saying that is good, you are eyeing their income, they are eyeing your principal."

   "My client is like this. Just like you and me and thousands of people working in the East, they also had good expectations for their ideals and planned to give their children a good childhood..."

"pity!"

Zhang Wei gritted his teeth, pointed to the dock, and said with an angry face: "Unfortunately, all this has been destroyed by Dongxing Securities. The wealth management products they provide have no so-called income at all, and even their stocks are fake. Inferior stocks that have not been strictly reviewed, risky stocks. This kind of stock is not even qualified to be rated by the market, commonly known as junk stocks!"

"Dongxing Securities failed to fulfill its review obligations, and also carried out false propaganda, falsified the returns of stocks, defrauded investors' principal, and finally cut off investors' leeks with a strategy of pushing up and selling. I believe this money It's all in their pockets!"

Zhang Wei pointed at Qian Moli and sneered: "So, our request is very simple, to return the 20 billion principal defrauded from my client and other investors who were deceived by you, and then to Dongxing Securities. The punitive damages for this company that did not work well, I hope this will remind them and let them take a lesson!"

   After speaking, Zhang Wei glanced at the jury and the hearing bench, then walked back to the plaintiff's bench.

   "Defense?"

   Master Tang nodded to his eldest disciple, Sun Kongwen, who stood up.

   "I am Sun Kongwen, the lawyer representing the defendant in this case. What I want to say here is that all the accusations made by the prosecution against my client, Mr. Qian Moli, are untrue."

   "We at Eaststar Securities deeply regret the loss of investors, but the investment market is always a loss and a profit. Since everyone has made money, why can't they accept the loss?"

   "Moreover, Mr. Qian, my client, actively cooperated with the Financial Services Agency's investigation after the incident, and disclosed many documents of the company. After the Financial Services Agency's investigation, the suspect, Zhan Qingze, was locked down."

  Sun Kongwen said this and emphasized loudly: "It can be said that Zhan Qingze is the culprit who should be responsible for the investors, and my client is innocent, and my client is also a victim!"

  Ni Qiuping nodded and looked over, "Defense, I understand, you want to say that your client does not need to be responsible for market risks and investors' losses, right?"

   "Yes, Judge Ni, that's what I meant!"

  Sun Kongwen nodded, then also sat back to his position.

  Ni Qiuping nodded towards both sides, and he knew their respective propositions.

   "Tingwei, please come in with the jury!"

   With Ni Qiuping's order, the candidate jury entered.

   On the plaintiff's seat, Zhang Wei and Xia Qianyue got together and chatted in a low voice.

   "This time it's a civil lawsuit, and only 6 jurors are needed, so you need to choose carefully!"

   "How to choose?"

   "It's very simple..." Zhang Wei glanced at the plaintiff's family beside him.

   "We need compassionate people and weed out self-righteous people. This is the same as the last criminal case, but the other way around!"

   He said, got up and walked to the candidate jury.

   "Excuse me, everyone, do you have a TV at home?"

   This question made the jury stunned.

   Everyone looked at each other, then nodded.

   These days, who doesn't have a TV at home?

"Then please imagine this scene, you and your children, or the children of your relatives, or the children of your friends are going to watch TV, but at this time the children want to watch Teletubbies, and what you want to watch is Survival in the Wilderness Documentary, what would you do?"

   "Ma'am, what will you do?"

   Zhang Wei said, looking at a woman in formal clothes.

   "I'll give out the remote to the kid."

   Hearing this question, many people nodded.

   This is obviously a responsible adult.

   "Oh, that's right, then can I ask more, what's your reason?"

   "Because I don't watch wilderness survival documentaries."

   "Then what show do you watch?"

   "I watch makeup shows, beauty shows and the like, because I'm a cosmetics seller."

   Hearing the woman's answer, Zhang Wei rolled his eyes, "Then what would you do if the child wanted to see Teletubbies and the time happened to be the beauty interview at 6 o'clock on the weekend?"

  The woman's expression turned cold after hearing this: "Send the children to play, no one can stop me from watching the beauty interview on the weekend!"

   "Thank you ma'am for your answer."

   This time, Zhang Wei completely understood.

   "Judge Ni, the prosecution requests that this juror be excluded."

   Ni Qiuping winked at the woman, who got up and left.

   "This gentleman, how about you?"

   "I might let it, children, let them be as they should."

   "Oh, that's the case, then let me ask a little more, what's your occupation?"

   "I own a shop and sell toys in the shop. I like children the most. They are the main buying force in my shop."

"Thank you for your answer."

   Zhang Wei turned his head and looked at Ni Qiuping: "The prosecution accepts this witness."

   Zhang Wei then asked several people one after another, eliminated a few and accepted a few.

   "It's your turn!" After walking out of the courtroom, Zhang Wei smiled at the dock.

   Master Tang's expression remained unchanged, while Sun Kongwen frowned and stood up.

   "My fellow jurors, this case is about contradictions in the investment market, so I would like to ask you, do you all participate in investments on weekdays, such as stocks, funds, bank fixed-term, or even insurance, investment and wealth management insurance, etc.?"

   Many people nodded.

   "Then may I ask you, can you accept your own investment losses?"

   Many more people nodded.

   "Sir, what kind of investment are you doing?"

   "I trade stocks, but this stock market, you know." The man said, and laughed himself.

   "Yeah, I'm investing in stocks, but stocks have lost a lot of money recently. Are you optimistic?"

   "Of course, it's normal to trade in stocks. It's normal to have a loss and a profit. It's a big deal to sell a house and continue to speculate~"

   Hearing what the man said, Sun Kongwen was very satisfied.

   "Judge Ni, the defense accepts this juror."

   Next, Sun Kongwen had an in-depth exchange with the jury on this investment issue.

  Many people can accept investment losses, but some people can't accept losses.

   And these people were all invited away by him with the right to be excluded.

   "The defense has been screened, lawyer Zhang, do you want to continue?"

  Sun Kongwen had already got some of the jurors he wanted, so he gave up the opportunity to ask questions again.

"certainly!"

   Zhang Wei got up and walked to the candidate jury.

   "Excuse me, everyone, are you all married? Raise your hands if you are married."

  The jury looked at each other, but many raised their hands.

   "Does divorce count?" a man asked in a low voice.

   "Of course!" Zhang Wei nodded, and then immediately asked: "Sir, since you said it all, why did you divorce? If it's inconvenient for you, you don't have to say it."

  The man smiled and said calmly, "I found out that my wife and the neighbor next door have an escapade!"

   Although this speech has no color, after many people listened to it, a touch of green appeared in front of them unconsciously.

   "Sir, I sympathize with your experience and express my reasons for accepting you as a juror."

  Men are very surprised. They usually ask this kind of question, and after answering it themselves, aren't they all rejected?

  Why did the plaintiff still accept it?

   At the trial seat, Ni Qiuping was surprised.

   But Zhang Wei's questioning routine, she didn't quite understand, so she could only record the information on the notes.

   "Jurors, second question, do you have any friends?"

  A lot of people looked at each other in dismay again, what kind of problem is this, who doesn't have a friend these days.

   "Then may I ask, will your friends borrow money from you?"

   "Raise your hand if you have borrowed money!"

   Many people looked at each other, and the last two raised their hands.

   "May I ask you two, after your friends borrowed money, did you return it to you?"

   Both of them laughed, with expressions of helplessness and anger.

   "Anyway, I don't borrow much, so I don't have this friend anymore." A woman behaved quite generously.

   "Then this gentleman, since your friend doesn't repay the money, do you think you don't have this friend?"

   "Isn't this too cheap for him, and I won't pay back the money I borrowed, do you think I'm a fool?"

   The man snorted coldly and said with excitement: "I have contacted the lawyer and am going to send him a lawyer's letter. I must get my money back, otherwise I will feel very uncomfortable!"

"Oh, I see!"

   Zhang Wei was very satisfied with the man's answer, and said to the bench: "Judge Ni, the prosecution accepts this juror."

   Ni Qiuping was surprised, you accept this man, what are you thinking about?

   But soon, she knocked the hammer and announced: "Well, we already have a jury. After lunch, the formal hearing will start at 2 pm. Remember to keep the time, don't make me late!"

After the    warning, Ni Qiuping took the lead to get up and leave.

  The court begins to dissolve.

   "Zhang Wei, what do you mean by your last question? A friend borrowed money, but a lot of people don't pay it back?"

   As soon as the court was dissolved, Xia Qianyue couldn't help but ask questions.

   "My last question is actually to find someone who can't forgive the unbeliever."

   Zhang Wei said and pointed in the direction of Qian Moli.

"East Star Securities must have dereliction of duty in this case. It was their lax review and the listing of inferior stocks, which led to huge losses for investors, which is contrary to their promise to protect investors' property safety. !"

"My last question has won us a strong juror. If he can play a role in the jury, and we can prove that the fault lies with Dongxing Securities and Qian Moli, then We have a chance!"

  Xia Qianyue nodded as if she understood.

   "Lawyer Zhang!"

   At this moment, Sun Kongwen came over.

   "This is the list of witnesses for our defense, please take a look at it!"

   "Give me the list of witnesses for the defense so early. Today should only be the opening statement. If you want to update the list later, wouldn't it..."

   "Because the list of witnesses is a bit large, we're going to give you an idea first."

  Sun Kongwen said, and handed Zhang Wei a list filled with names.

   "Good guy, did you write down all the employees of Dongxing Securities?"

   "No way, Mr. Qian has won the trust of the employees in the company, and they all want to testify in court, so I will let them all come to the scene to support Mr. Qian."

  Sun Kongwen said with a smile: "Lawyer Zhang, I believe that having a few more witnesses shouldn't affect you, right?"

   "Yeah, I don't care."

  Sun Kongwen saw Zhang Wei's face as usual, so he didn't stay, and went directly to meet the master.

   And Zhang Wei looked at the dense list of names, his face sank.

   "This is going to kill me, isn't it, buying time with so many witnesses?"

   Zhang Wei saw through Master Tang's plan at a glance, but this was also what he expected.

   After all, if they want to win, they must prove that Dongxing Securities has committed dereliction of duty.

   And there are many ways for Dongxing Securities to win.

   The safest one is to delay the time, entrust Zhan Qingze to recover, and delay the latter to be tried and convicted!

   So this case needs to be resolved quickly!

   (end of this chapter)

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