Are You Crazy? He’s only an Intern Lawyer?
Chapter 632 - 625: Endless Arguments, A Rebuttal Witness Appears?

Chapter 632: Chapter 625: Endless Arguments, A Rebuttal Witness Appears?

Mr. Xiao Mo Moji was carried away.

Considering he was already this drunk, what else could they do for him?

To prevent him from sleeping on the ground and catching a cold, two tall and strong court guards carried him away.

Now, everyone’s gaze was fixed on Wu Renjie.

"Wu Renjie, please answer me honestly, did you just lie?"

Although it was a question, everyone in the room already knew the answer that Zhang Wei was expecting.

"You said you weren’t aware whether Mr. Xiao Mo Moji was drunk. So please tell me, how could you not notice if someone who drank 15 glasses of alcohol and was so drunk they lay down on the spot wasn’t drunk?"

"This..."

Wu Renjie was once again at a loss for words, not knowing how to respond.

Because this question, even Zhang Wei’s experiment from just now, hadn’t been part of Jincheng’s weekend mock exercises.

The question was completely out of their scope.

During these two days, they had anticipated all kinds of cross-examinations and questioning tactics from Zhang Wei.

But among these tactics, there had never been anything like today’s, confronting with an experiment and then asking questions based on it.

Now, Wu Renjie couldn’t come up with an answer.

"Wu Renjie, it seems you have a lot of courage, daring to lie in court!"

Zhang Wei gave a cold smile, his gaze turning incidentally towards the middle of the bench, towards Lin Xiangtian and Wu Yuanzong.

The looks on their faces were also not very pleasant.

Never had they imagined that Zhang Wei could pull off such a maneuver.

It was too off-script!

Lin Xiangtian hurriedly made frantic eye signals to Ren Xingzhou.

Think of something quick, will you? Handle this mess already!

Ren Xingzhou received Lin Xiangtian’s visual cue, but internally, he was secretly bemoaning the situation.

This question is too off-script! How am I supposed to salvage this?

And, I hadn’t expected that Mr. Xiao Mo Moji would get so drunk after drinking.

Damn it, his alcohol tolerance is so poor!

To think you actually drank when asked, drink my ass!

Ren Xingzhou quickly turned his head, looking towards the trio of Lawyer Shen, Lawyer Han, and Lawyer Yang.

The trio all shook their heads and then hung them low.

You, Ren Xingzhou, deal with this mess yourself. After all, we’re just team members, and you’re the one responsible for the team and the case.

"Fuck!"

Ren Xingzhou cursed inwardly, these three bastards were unreliable!

But clenching his teeth, he still braced himself and stepped up.

"Objection, Master Wu might have remembered it wrong at the start. He actually drove Mr. Xiao Mo Moji for a stretch before the latter woke up, and then they switched places!"

Seizing the chance to object, Ren Xingzhou not only interrupted Zhang Wei’s questioning but also provided Wu Renjie with a rationale.

"Lawyer Ren, are you objecting, or are you trying to come up with excuses for the defendant?"

Zhang Wei looked at Ren Xingzhou, his lips curling into a mix of severity and mockery.

"I remember now, I did drive for Mr. Xiao Mo Moji for a while at the start. After not going far, we switched places because he had already woken up by then."

And Wu Renjie cooperated very well, immediately adopting Ren Xingzhou’s explanation.

At that, Zhang Wei smiled.

"Judge Ni, what do you think of this objection? Is it not absurd?"

"Indeed quite absurd!"

Ni Qiuping also smiled in agreement, before her expression quickly turned cold.

"Lawyer Ren, your objection is invalid and I must issue you a stern warning here in court. You almost angered me."

Ren Xingzhou immediately felt immense pressure, and even as a former prosecutor, he inexplicably felt stressed before Judge Ni’s anger.

And after warning Ren Xingzhou, Ni Qiuping turned to Wu Renjie.

"Defendant, are you planning to amend your testimony?"

"Yes, I might have gotten things mixed up." Of course, Wu Renjie would want to amend it, or how could he explain Mr. Xiao Mo Moji driving?

"Judge Ni, since the investigation department didn’t initiate an investigation into this case, there are no formal statements, and it’s possible for our client to have confused the sequence of events due to the car accident!"

Ren Xingzhou immediately added a sentence, clearly intending to give Wu Renjie a way out.

Because the investigative department hadn’t filed a case, there were no recorded statements, so Wu Renjie could change his testimony anytime he wanted.

Moreover, there had been a car accident, and it was possible for anyone in such a situation, if they suffered severe shock, to experience memory confusion.

All these were reasonable explanations.

So, taking these reasons, if someone were to say the witness had remembered incorrectly, who could find fault in that!

At least in Ren Xingzhou’s view, Zhang Wei wouldn’t be able to find any grounds for rebuttal.

"Kid, although I’ve been warned, you’re out of moves too, aren’t you!"

Thinking this, he couldn’t help but reveal a hint of a smile on his face.

He didn’t care about offending Ni Qiuping as long as he could break through Zhang Wei’s offensive.

After Ren Xingzhou sat down, he showed a smiling face.

He wanted to see how Zhang Wei would continue to make his moves under these circumstances.

"Wu Renjie, are you sure you want to change your testimony?"

Zhang Wei looked at Wu Renjie, not showing any surprise on his face but rather a smile.

"I’m not changing the testimony, I might have remembered it wrong, so I’m reiterating it in court."

Wu Renjie looked in the direction where Xiao Mo Moji was being carried off and explained, "Xiao Mo Moji indeed had too much to drink that day, so at first, when he was drunk, I remember initially helping him drive. However, not long after we set off, he woke up, and naturally, I let him drive."

"I suddenly remember it now because I had forgotten it in the chaos at the time, but now that you mentioned it, it came back to me."

"However, I want to make one thing clear: although I drank that night, I was sober while driving, and I switched places with Xiao Mo Moji very quickly. I admit that drinking and driving is wrong, and I deeply regret it now."

"Wu Renjie, haven’t you had enough!"

Seeing Wu Renjie once again adopting a humble posture, Zhang Wei directly sneered.

"Who doesn’t know that your apology isn’t sincere at all? You’re just trying to absolve yourself of responsibility; your apology is insincere!"

"But the settlement payment offered by my family is genuinely sincere!"

Undaunted by Zhang Wei, Wu Renjie even brought up the settlement terms.

"5 million, 8 million, if you need, I can raise it to 10 million. With that money, not only could you treat the injured, but you could also achieve financial freedom for the rest of your lives!"

"Do you think this case is about money?"

"What else could it be? You put on such a big show, if it’s not for money, could it possibly be for something else?"

Wu Renjie looked at Zhang Wei and couldn’t help but scoff: "10 million isn’t enough for you, do you want a hundred million? If you’re willing to settle, we can consider it, of course. A hundred million, Lawyer Zhang, are you satisfied now?"

"Wu Renjie, do you really think that we are persistently entangled with you just for money? We are here to bring you, the real culprit, to justice!"

Zhang Wei also shouted back in retort.

"Previously, you claimed over and over again that the person who injured Lu Ma was Xiao Mo Moji, and you were sitting in the passenger seat the whole time. Now that I’ve proven Xiao Mo Moji couldn’t have driven, you change your testimony."

"If, later on, I prove that you were the one driving the car that hit Lu Ma, will you continue to modify your testimony? As a member of the Wu clan, do you have no sense of responsibility at all?"

"You’re saying I lack responsibility, you..."

"Forget it, I can’t be bothered to argue with you anymore!"

Seeing that Wu Renjie was about to retaliate, Zhang Wei immediately raised his hand to interrupt.

"Let’s continue, we are still in cross-examination!"

Zhang Wei asked again, "Since you’ve changed your testimony, do you mean to say that after leaving the hotel, Xiao Mo Moji became sober, which is why he was able to continue driving and hit Lu Ma on Sifang Gate Street?"

"Of course!" Wu Renjie answered the question with his head held high.

"Someone so drunk that he’s out of touch with reality can regain consciousness in just a few minutes? Is he really that capable?"

"You can’t generalize about people’s constitutions!"

Seeing Wu Renjie rebutting with this reason, Zhang Wei couldn’t persist.

After all, Xiao Mo Moji had already been carried away, and it was hard to know when he had woken up in court.

"Wu Renjie, do you know what I’ve been curious about? If Xiao Mo Moji, like he’s behaving now, was unconscious from being drunk, and you were fleeing from a traffic accident, where would you go?"

"Later, I found out through the sports car company’s backend data that after the accident, you went to your lover’s house."

Zhang Wei said, looking at Wu Renjie, "You keep claiming your innocence; I want to ask you, after the traffic accident, was Xiao Mo Moji driving the whole time, including when he drove you away from the scene?"

"Yes."

Hearing Wu Renjie’s answer, Zhang Wei looked toward the bench.

"Judge Ni, in response to the defendant’s answer, we would like to call another rebuttal witness."

"A rebuttal witness, understood."

Judge Ni naturally would not object and banged the gavel in agreement.

However, she was curious as to why nobody from the defense stood up to object.

In the past, when Zhang Wei summoned rebuttal witnesses, the defense would always cry foul loudly.

She looked toward the defense bench and saw Ren Xingzhou not only had not stood up, but was actually sitting calmly, his face composed.

In fact, what she did not know was that Ren Xingzhou’s confidence stemmed from the fact that they had already sent people to "deal with" the witness.

So when Zhang Wei called for the rebuttal witness, not only was Ren Xingzhou unfazed, Wu Renjie was not panicked, and even Lin Xiangtian and Wu Yuanzong, sitting in the observers’ area, merely exchanged a glance, even a hint of laughter in their eyes.

Witness, witness, you need to be in court to be called a witness.

If you can’t even show up, what kind of witness are you?

Lin Xiangtian and the others were convinced that your witness, Mr. Ye, would not be able to come, so they were not the least bit scared.

"We summon Mr. Ye to the stand to testify!"

At Zhang Wei’s announcement, in the courtroom... nothing happened.

No one opened the door of the courtroom, and Mr. Ye did not stand up from the observers’ area or anywhere else to walk to the witness stand.

Wu Renjie was just about to stand up to vacate the witness seat, but seeing that nothing was happening in the courtroom, he couldn’t be bothered to move.

Even more so, he was aware of what had happened early this morning, and the smile at the corner of his mouth grew even more pronounced.

"Our side calls Mr. Ye to the stand to testify, Mr. Ye, Mr. Ye?"

Zhang Wei called out again, but alas, there was still no response.

Obviously, this Mr. Ye had not come.

The jury and observers all looked at each other in confusion.

Where was the witness? Why hadn’t they appeared?

"Lawyer Zhang, where is your witness?"

Judge Ni couldn’t help herself and asked eagerly.

"Yes, Lawyer Zhang, where is your witness?"

On the defense bench, Ren Xingzhou even seemed a bit schadenfroh.

Where was the witness?

Probably already in heaven, right?

"I’m puzzled too, the witness was fine yesterday, how come today he..."

Zhang Wei scratched his head, then turned to Ren Xingzhou, "Lawyer Ren, you didn’t do anything to the witness, did you?"

"Lawyer Zhang, you can be careless with what you eat, but not with what you say. Our Jincheng Law Firm is one of the top firms in Dongfang Capital, we would never tamper with a witness!"

"Is that so, then why can’t the witness make it?"

Zhang Wei looked utterly bewildered.

It was at that moment that a Court Guard suddenly came up to Judge Ni and whispered a few words to her.

"Ahem, the court has just received word that the witness, Mr. Ye, injured his back this morning and is unable to appear to testify!"

"What?"

Judge Ni’s explanation made everyone, including Zhang Wei, Ren Xingzhou, Lin Xiangtian, and Wu Yuanzong, stunned.

The reason for Zhang Wei’s stunned reaction was obviously because last night, he had no clue about Mr. Ye being injured.

It seems that even Shuang Sha’s actions last night had some effect on Mr. Ye’s body, causing him to injure his back.

However, the astonishment of Lin Xiangtian and the others was because the witness was still alive.

What’s the matter, he injured his back so he can’t appear in court?

Wu Yuanzong looked at Lin Xiangtian, and Lin Xiangtian looked back at Wu Yuanzong.

The former seemed to be asking: So, when you said you’ll handle the witness yesterday, you just meant to injure his back so he couldn’t appear in court?

The latter seemed to be explaining: Not at all, I sent out the Shuang Sha with the intention of a permanent solution, they are professionals, how could they have just caused the witness to injure his back?

Both men stared wide-eyed at each other, equally dumbfounded.

"However, rest assured everyone, even if Mr. Ye, the witness, cannot appear in court, his daughter, Miss Ye, is able to appear!"

Judge Ni, seeing the bizarre turn of events, added another sentence, or rather, threw out a bombshell.

"What, that woman is alive too!"

The first to lose composure was Wu Renjie.

He had thought that the woman would definitely be dead by last night and had even reminisced about the times they had spent together. To think that she was still alive?

Unfortunately, her being alive was not good news for him.

"Miss Ye is still alive and can testify in court?"

Then there was Ren Xingzhou, who knew what the witness knew, so he had tried hard to keep the person off the witness list at first.

But unexpectedly, while he managed to prevent the testimony that day, he failed today, and the witness was going to take the stand.

On the bench, Lin Xiangtian and Wu Yuanzong were no longer just staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes; their gazes were now fixed intently on the courtroom, on Zhang Wei.

They knew that it must have been Zhang Wei’s doing, making it possible for the Ye father and daughter to be alive, and for that daughter to agree to testify.

Zhang Wei seemed to sense their stares, turned his head slightly, and smiled, even opening his mouth to form words.

Zhang Wei: Thank you!

Reading Zhang Wei’s lip formation, both Wu Yuanzong and Lin Xiangtian’s expressions twitched.

Damn it!

It was indeed this kid’s doing!

Seeing this, Lin Xiangtian quickly made eye contact with Ren Xingzhou, signaling him with his gaze.

"Objection, Miss Ye has a hidden heart condition, and if she were to testify in court..."

"Lawyer Ren, Miss Ye insists on testifying this time, and I understand your concerns, but if the person herself insists, stop beating around the bush!"

Ren Xingzhou’s words were directly cut off by Ni Qiuping.

Then the doors of the courtroom swung open, and a woman with pink hair, both good-looking and with a great figure, walked into the courtroom.

Of course, what really caught everyone’s attention was her angry and hate-filled eyes, and the person she locked eyes with was none other than Wu Renjie.

Miss Ye seemed to be questioning Wu Renjie, After all I’ve done for you, this is how you repay me?

You even sent people to kill me and my father, what are your intentions?

At this moment, Wu Renjie’s expression was certainly a sight to behold.

But Zhang Wei approached him, and with a smile said, "What are you waiting for? Make room for the witness chair. The counter-witness has arrived; why are you still sitting there?"

"You..."

Wu Renjie wanted to explode in anger, but he couldn’t, and could only clench his teeth and give up his seat.

Miss Ye took her seat.

"Hello, Miss Ye."

"Hello, Lawyer Zhang."

After exchanging greetings with the newcomer, Zhang Wei smiled and asked, "Miss Ye, after going through so much last night, you still decided to testify today, thank you for your effort."

"It’s not a burden, I was forced into this!"

The woman said, her eyes flashing with hatred towards Wu Renjie.

"Alright, let’s take it one step at a time, starting naturally with the accident, on the night of the upper Saturday, or rather, early morning of Sunday, there must have been some interaction between you and Wu Renjie, right?"

"Of course, around 12 o’clock that night, he called me, saying he wanted to come to my place to avoid some trouble. I didn’t know what was happening, but he sounded a bit panicked, so I let him come over."

"After that, how did he get to your place?"

"He drove over in a red sports car, even brought along someone as drunk as mud to my place. I saw a dent in the front of the car and thought he had a traffic accident."

"Wait, Miss Ye, who did you say drove to your place?"

The woman lifted her hand and pointed firmly at Wu Renjie, directly accusing him, "Him!"

At these words, the courtroom awoke with realization.

So it was you, kid!

"Then, the person drunk as mud in the passenger seat, is it this person?"

Zhang Wei pointed to the projection screen, where a photo of Xiao Mo Moji appeared.

"Yes, but he was drunk. Up until the next day, when his father took him away, he remained asleep on my couch without ever waking up."

The woman said, letting out a mocking laugh, as if to ridicule Wu Renjie.

"You mean to say, Mr. Xiao Mo Moji maintain his drunken state even after leaving the car, all the way until the next morning, which was Sunday, when Mr. Mo Moji took him away?"

"Yes, his father seems to be a diplomat, definitely not a native of Dragon Country, and I’ve even seen him on TV."

"Oh, I understand now."

Upon hearing this answer, Zhang Wei immediately smiled and leisurely turned around, locking eyes with Wu Renjie.

At this very moment, on the defense bench, everyone became unsettled.

Wu Renjie was astonished, Ren Xingzhou was panicked, and the trio’s glances held a mix of resignation and schadenfreude.

Wu Yuanzong and Lin Xiangtian in the observer’s seats were also getting restless.

Because they all knew that today, they were in for it!