Lawyer: Send the Judge to Prison-Chapter 442 - 401: Here It Comes, the Familiar Flash Drive Appears!
Gu Chen turned over a forensic certificate.
Gu Chen also submitted a USB drive.
The content of the USB drive was surveillance footage of Li Long while in detention.
Gu Chen said, "After Li Long chose to turn himself in, I requested a full body check from the hospital for Li Long. The examination results prove that Li Long suffers from severe mental illness, even schizophrenia. Such a person might seem normal at times, but in reality, their mind is already fragmented. The patient cannot clearly understand what they want to do and cannot control their mental state."
Gu Chen submitted the diagnosis certificate.
This diagnosis certificate was issued by a very famous large hospital in China...
Moreover, Gu Chen also applied to two hospitals for a psychiatric evaluation of Li Long.
The assessment results indicated that Li Long indeed had severe mental issues.
According to legal regulations, if a person cannot recognize or control their behavior due to mental illness during the crime, they do not bear criminal responsibility after legal procedures confirm it.
Even if Li Long killed three people, as long as it can be proven he is mentally ill and had an episode during the act, he does not need to bear any criminal responsibility.
When Gu Chen presented the psychiatric evaluation certificate...
The online viewers of the live broadcast were already getting excited.
Mental illness?!
If it’s really possible to prove that Li Long is mentally ill, then indeed, Li Long doesn’t need the death penalty!
Who would have thought Gu Chen would use this method for a defense?
In his childhood, Li Long experienced a nightmare where his mother died. Perhaps it was at that time that Li Long’s mental issues began.
Li Long had been away for so many years, his mental state was already abnormal. He possibly wasn’t even aware of his own issues.
Upon returning home, Li Long saw those three people from the neighboring house.
Even though years had gone by, Li Long recognized them immediately.
These people were the killers!
In that case, everything could be explained!
Li Long didn’t really commit a crime!
He has a mental illness!
Even if someone with a mental illness kills, they are not guilty.
Moreover, Li Long didn’t engage in any acts of social revenge; he was just mentally disturbed...
Seeing those killers, Li Long’s episode was completely normal.
Perhaps on the day Li Long decided to act, he had already mentally returned to that night in his childhood...
If on that night, he had stood up to protect his mother... if he could have stood up, maybe his mother could have survived.
Instead of like years later, where Li Long ceaselessly regretted not standing up back then, not rushing forward, only able to helplessly watch his mother die in front of him while he could do nothing.
Seeing the murderers, Li Long rushed forward without a second thought.
It was as if he returned to the night of his childhood, fantasizing over and over again; if he were given another chance, he would definitely stand up, fight with all his might, and protect his mother...
Day after day of fantasy...
For more than ten years, how did Li Long get through each day?
How did Li Long get through each night?
The night his mother died, like a dream, lingering in his memory.
How could Li Long ever forget that night?
Years have passed, but how could Li Long ever forget the faces of those three?
He dreamed the same dream for more than ten years!
In those years, every single dream had those three murderers’ faces!
In every dream was the sound of his mother being beaten, her cries, her wails, her pleas...
Every scene etched in Li Long’s mind, driving him completely mad.
Thus, Li Long saved enough money outside...
He brought all the money home just to care for his father in old age.
But when he turned around, he saw those three people from the neighbor’s home...
That night, Li Long had only one thing in mind—revenge...
He wanted to avenge his mother!
He wanted to kill those murderers!
...
In the courtroom.
Everyone was silent.
Gu Chen found the only way to fight this case!
And that was—Li Long is mentally ill!
Gao Yong’s eyes lit up, "How did I not think of litigating this way? Mental illness, yes, Li Long must be mentally ill! Experienced something like this more than ten years ago, and at that time, Li Long was just a child. How could he forget the scene of his mother’s death? He could never forget it!"
Beside him, Xia Ranran said, "There’s hope now, this case has a chance of winning. Gu Chen managed to find a way to defend Li Long; it’s incredible."
Presiding Judge Xu Yang looked at the evidence Gu Chen submitted and said, "So your argument is that Li Long suffers from severe mental illness and thus was having an episode during the crime? Which is why he consecutively murdered three people."
Gu Chen replied, "Yes, when mentally ill individuals have an episode, they generally don’t understand what they are doing. It’s very hard to understand their logic. They cannot control their behavior, nor can they control their mental state."
At this moment, the prosecutor raised her hand.
Prosecutor Wang Qing was also somewhat shocked, not expecting Gu Chen to present evidence that Li Long is mentally ill...
But Wang Qing still believed that Li Long was guilty!
Murdering three people is a grave crime and must be punished by death!
