Fortunate to Have You This Lifetime-Chapter 1024 Rewrite_1

"Norton, you can’t write like this."

Purple Summers returned the few pages of documents to Norton, her eyes filled with incomprehension, "Why do you want to write it this way?"

"Is there something wrong with the way I wrote it?" Norton looked baffled, bowing his head to read over his own homework again.

"This can hardly be considered a defense speech." Purple Summers said, "Norton, put yourself in their shoes. If you were your own representative, would you be satisfied with such a defense speech? It’s almost no different from a confession."

Norton felt a bit embarrassed and muttered, "But he is a murderer. The bloodstains in his house matched those on the corpse, and the neighbors also heard the two arguing. It’s clear he killed the other person in the course of the argument and then threw the body into the trash can. The facts of the crime are clear. All I could do was to try to lighten his punishment..."

Purple Summers sighed inwardly. She felt that Norton had completely missed the point.

"Were you at the scene of the crime when it happened?" Purple Summers asked him.

Norton was taken aback by the question, "This is just a case study..."

It was a fabricated story, a falsehood; how could Norton possibly have been there?

"Since you weren’t at the scene, how do you know whether he actually committed the murder or not?" Purple Summers asked.

Norton hesitated, "There were the victim’s bloodstains in his house..."

Purple Summers cut him off, "Norton, that’s not right. The teacher asked us to write a defense speech, not a criminal complaint. Your role is a defense attorney, not a prosecutor. You must be clear about one thing, which is that no one knows what the actual truth is. Your duty is to provide a strong defense for your client, to the best of your abilities!"

"...Even if he is a murderer?" Norton looked troubled.

Purple Summers, at her wits’ end, held her forehead and said, "Anyone is innocent until proven guilty! No matter how brutal and terrifying the crime they are accused of, they have the right to a fair and legal trial! And the only way to receive such a trial is if a defense attorney defends them with due diligence!

But look at your defense speech. Norton, by doing this, you’re effectively depriving him of his legitimate right to a trial. As his defense attorney, within the confines of legality and regulations, you need to do everything in your power to protect his interests, at any cost, even if he is a murderer!"

Norton frowned, unable to help but retort, "Knowing full well that he killed someone, yet I should still try to exonerate him? Isn’t that somewhat... immoral?"

"If you were a doctor and there was a dying murderer in front of you, would you save him?" Purple Summers asked him, "If you save him, maybe he will kill again in the future. Does that make your act of saving a life immoral?

The duty of a doctor is to save lives and help the injured, without considering whether the patient is good or bad. Lawyers are the same, regardless of whether their clients are good or bad, their primary duty is to maintain the proper functioning of the judicial process. Even if he truly did murder someone and is sentenced to death, his life must be taken away through a legal and fair process."

Purple Summers truly cared about Norton, which is why she went to such lengths to say all this. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

Norton had failed the judicial examination five times and had only managed to enter the Judicial Training Institute with great difficulty. Purple Summers sincerely hoped that he would graduate successfully.

Norton seemed to understand somewhat and scratched the back of his head with a troubled expression, asking in a soft voice, "Then what do you think... How should I revise it to make it better?"

"Start over." Purple Summers sighed. "You must understand, the prosecutor initiates the prosecution, the lawyer provides defense, and the judge arbitrates from the middle. This is the triangular structure of a trial. In this structure, none of the sides can be neglected, or else the balance of control and defense will be disrupted, easily leading to judicial arbitrariness. So before you consider morality, you must be clear about your systemic role and whether you have fully carried out your duty."

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