"Alright, let's get started."

After Charlize sat down, the old prosecutor opened the folder and read a brief opening statement about the case, and then said: "I think we both know that the evidence in this case is conclusive, and you have nothing to resist, in order to save everyone's time, I have a very good plea bargain condition here, do you want to listen to it?" APLUS。 ”

Song Ya looked at the ceiling and did not answer.

"Please." Diane responded.

The apparent leader of the Dream Lawyers Group must be African-American barrister Cochran, but Diane Lockhard has the unanimous approval of predominantly Chicagoan lawyers, and she is usually the one who will lead the matter.

Goodman, Songya's most trusted personal lawyer, is responsible for controlling key decisions.

"Two years in prison and a fine." The old prosecutor replied.

Sounds good, if there is a suspended sentence, it means that you don't have to go to jail, Song Ya looked at Diane. Of course, the face is expressionless, and the lawyers have repeatedly reminded of this.

"Your cameras aren't working." Cochran's lawyer noticed this and whispered to him, Cochran pointed to the index camera.

"It seems to be broken." The old prosecutor's assistant went over to fiddle again.

"Let's use a tape recorder, sorry, I'm too old to use this new thing." The old prosecutor laughed.

Diane asked his men to make sure the tape recorder was working properly, "Can you repeat what you just said about the reconciliation?" She asked, "Is there a suspended sentence and how much is the fine?" ”

"Huh." The old prosecutor refused to say anything.

So just now it was a language trap to test the bottom line of reconciliation?

Although the Elephant Party rushed to pass a series of budget bills at the end of '96, when the Elephant Party was still the majority in the House of Representatives, the situation of the special investigation teams of the parliaments at all levels of the various names was very different, and there was a whitewater project aimed at the wife of the current president, and the budget was extremely high, and it was estimated that tens of millions of dollars had been spent from '94 to the present. There is also a three-member team to investigate the Barn case, and the total amount of the two appropriations has not exceeded the 1 million mark, and it will be reported to the Department of Justice after it is established.

The budget is small, but Song Ya knows that he must not take it lightly, because the special prosecutor has a lot of power, and he can almost count the guilt as suspected, and he can transfer the case to the federal court if the preliminary investigation results are not determined by the Ministry of Justice to be unfounded and there is no need for further investigation.

The special prosecutor may also call a grand jury, (a twenty-three grand jury decides whether to prosecute a suspect, and a twelve petit jury decides whether a suspect is guilty.) ）

It is also interesting to say that the original intention of the people of the United States, or the people of North Mi during the British colonial period, who actively participated in the jury at the earliest, was actually to make trouble when the British colonial court tried the anti-tax elements, and it had little to do with fairness and justice.

A grand jury is not mandatory in every case, but once it is called, it will rarely refuse a prosecutor's request to prosecute unless there are political factors involved. In recent years, data has shown that the probability of being allowed to be prosecuted by a grand jury is 99 percent, because in this system, the prosecutor is very strong, he is both the prosecutor and the legal adviser of the grand jury, which is equivalent to being both a player and a referee.

The grand jury may also admit evidence that is not normally allowed in a trial, such as private recordings, polygraph reports, etc.

So the failure of the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara County grand juries to prosecute the criminal portion of MJ'92 is a rare victory, although Chandler and his sons refused to cooperate with the prosecutions in both places after receiving a civil settlement of 20 million, but it has proved his partial innocence.

Unfortunately, it is impossible for ordinary people to understand the various tricks of the legal game, and it is precisely for this reason that both the governor and the fantasy lawyer group have advised them to choose to take the initiative to skip the grand jury step.

Resisting the special prosecutor at the prosecution level is unrealistic and counterproductive, and people will have a preconceived notion that they are guilty when they hear that Barhn's case has been ruled by a grand jury to allow prosecution.

Of course, Song Ya also knows that he is much better than what happened to MJ back then, the special prosecutor, although this old man looks wilted, but he is actually very restrained, giving him the opportunity to take the initiative to come to the case, and he did not play any blatant arrests and other tricks to damage the face of celebrities, and some time ago in Chicago summoned or visited Dow, Barn Sr., Edward, some employee witnesses of Barne's fluorescent agent factory, as well as Song Asheng and others involved in the case on his side, investigated and collected evidence, and did not use any coercive means.

He also carefully avoided some of the charges that made the case bigger, such as involving the Barn fluorescent agent factory, which has become a subsidiary of Dow, as the subject of the lawsuit, and did not involve the military technology in the Barn fluorescent agent factory, according to the regulations of Batumi at that time, if the three bans on military weapons and equipment, cutting-edge technology products and rare materials involve the illegal export of military weapons and equipment to China, it is not the business of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defense will also be involved, and even the international emergency economic power bill can be used. There is no need to provide evidence of the wrongdoing of the person being stopped, as long as it can be proved that the weapons technology was obtained by the Chinese military, the exporter can be sanctioned.

Nor did he investigate the export of Barn's chemical equipment to Huaguo, which would have dragged the former Elephant Party commanders into the process and shot them in the foot.

Among them, whether it is Underwood of the Donkey Party or the former boss of the Elephant Party, Cheney and the former commander, they must have secretly exerted a lot of pressure.

Therefore, Song Ya is now facing prosecution on charges of illegal trading, that is, illegal sale of cutting-edge technology products in violation of the Batumi Agreement, fraud, providing false information and documents to the export management department of the Ministry of Commerce of the United States, conspiracy, and conspiracy with Song Asheng, the former general manager of Bath Fluorescent Agent, and Song Asheng, who is responsible for liaison with Huaguo.

"At that time, the transaction amount of chemical equipment was ...... It's 57 million dollars, right? The old prosecutor asked.

"Yes." Song Ya and the lawyers confirmed the answer.

"The Northern Trust owns twenty percent of it?"

"Yes."

"You took 80 percent of it from Barn's creditors and spent 30 million?"

"Yes."

"That is, net ......"

"Well, you can't do that, we also paid a lot of extra money for warehousing, salaries and the cost of maintaining operations during the transaction."

Goodman replied, "There are other ...... It costs a lot of money to make a big deal. ”

"Here's the relevant document." Diane pushed over the documents she had prepared.

The old prosecutor should have had these in his hands, but he still put on his reading glasses and looked at them carefully.

He danced on the tip of the knife, carefully, and so did himself, not only not to involve Dow, the former Grand President, Cheney and even Underwood and others in the case, but also to be very careful to control the intensity of the black community's troubles, not to cause trouble to the Chicago Donkey Party and the current Grand President, and at the same time to do everything possible to win the lawsuit, because whether it is illegal transactions, fraud and complicity, the judge's sentencing freedom is very high, and the petit jury is only responsible for determining whether he is guilty or not.

During the lawsuit, the money printing machine cannot be stopped, whether it is a football stunner, a New Year's concert or a global tour, it is a very large or very important business, and I can afford to lose it, but it will lead to major losses for the partner, especially the football stunner and the partner of the global tour, Anschutz.

In fact, Song Ya herself doesn't want to have problems with the New Year's concert, which will bring a lot of trouble to Barenboy, a top conductor friend, because the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is already rehearsing Baba yetu, although it is a substitute lineup, and it will only be performed in the middle of the mat time.

"APLUS, in front of the warehouse of the Barn fluorescent agent factory, you clearly ordered the then general manager to hand over the technical information that was not on the transaction list to Huaguo Enterprise to take away, your original words were: 'The factory is mine, I have the final say, don't rub it off, let them move things ......quickly', right?'" The old prosecutor asked.

"I don't remember." Song Ya replied, "I was only seventeen years old at the time. ”

"That's not a reason, recall?"

"I'm sorry my client has answered your question explicitly." Cochran interrupted.

"Before that, you had private contact with the ...... of the other company"

"Nope."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, we're sure."

The two sides only need to exchange some documents at this meeting, which is a mutual testing stage, and the prosecutor's various tricky questions are not enough to see in front of the fantasy lawyer group, and they are easily identified and resolved by Diane, Cochran and others.

"It doesn't seem to make sense to talk about it, right?"

The old prosecutor found nothing, he closed the folder, "Actually, the facts are very clear, there were a lot of witnesses present at that time, you have no chance of winning, maybe it is a good choice to settle with us." It's not a wife murder, is it? Cochran. ”

"I'm sorry, but we're sticking to the not-guilty plea." Cochran replied.

"Okay."

The first contact between the two sides broke up, but they will soon meet again, because they have to go to the court to fight bail.

"GOOD JOB, APLUS."

Cochran watched as Charles and the special prosecutor trio left, rubbing Songya's shoulders in encouragement.

"I didn't even say a word." Song Ya squeezed out a smile.

"Wait a minute, it's a real gun." Goodman said.

"So what are we going to do now?" Song Ya raised his wrist and remembered that the watch was gone, but it should be too early to feel the time.

"Take a break at noon, and we'll see you at the court in the afternoon." The lawyers began to leave.

"I'm resting at the police station, huh?"

Song Ya was scolding, and his arm was held up by the two police officers behind him, "We will take you to a resting place." One of them said.

"Oh."

was taken to the 'iron cage' of the prisoner in the police station for temporary detention, looking at the street rotten boys who were staring at him with his eyes shining, Song Ya turned around, the lawyers, gone, the bodyguards ......

"Hahaha......"

He saw the Kenneth boss he hadn't seen for a long time, one hand was cuffed to the iron cage, and he was looking at himself inside, and he couldn't support it.

Song Ya's heart was a little settled, and he was obediently pushed into the cage by the police.

"Now you're just like us! Big star! Some crooked melons and cracked dates who didn't know whether they were drunks or addicts laughed wildly: "Welcome to join!" ”

'Bang! ’

The cage door was shut.

There was a white man who was so dirty that he was dead, full of yellow teeth, reached out and grabbed the corner of his mink coat, Song Ya hurriedly pulled back, and the guy refused to let go.

Several of Kenneth's negroes laughed and drove him away.

"Sit down." Kenneth patted the bench beside him.

"Nope."

Song Ya's nose was sour, she quickly inhaled her snot, held the iron cage with both hands, and looked out pitifully.