Wine and Gun

The client's lips trembled: "However, is there no possibility of defending from the perspective of manslaughter...?"

Herstal frowned imperceptibly.

Then, he said as calmly as possible: "There are at least four conditions that must be met to determine murder of passion: first, that the accused is in a situation where a normal person would be provoked, which is true; second, that the accused must have been provoked, which does not Doubtful; but the trouble is then, the law says 'there is a short interval between the time of being provoked and the time of killing, a person can't be completely calmed down, and the accused does not calm down', and that's the problem - your daughter murdered Whether or not she was still in a state of anger at the time is unreliable, and the court will need to hear a lot of testimony to determine this. But your daughter was nearly six hours between when she learned the truth and when she acted with you. After lunch, she did not show any abnormality; secondly, the whole process of her meeting with her boyfriend was not only recorded by surveillance video, but there were at least five eyewitnesses on the side. Being attacked before he had time to say anything also proves that there is no chance of him provoking your daughter again."

"...The jury would not have thought that she was still in an irrational state," the client admitted bitterly.

"That's right," Herstal nodded calmly, "if she had murdered immediately after learning of the news, or had another quarrel with the victim before the murder, we could all plead manslaughter, but according to the current Under the circumstances, I dare not make such a guarantee.”

He paused, and seeing that the other party did not speak, he added: "I suggest you make a decision as soon as possible, the investigation process of this simple case is very short, and we have to see the prosecutor of this case before the pretrial hearing. "

The client was silent for a while, then nodded laboriously and said, "...Okay, let's have a plea bargain."

Herstal stood up calmly, and reached out to straighten his cuffs; the answer was to his expectations, and there was nothing worthwhile in this case.

"Then, I'm going to see the prosecutor on this case, her name is..." Herstal paused, reached out and flipped through his memorandum, and his secretary had written down the name for him when he released the commission. , "Wallis Hardy."

- At the WLPD party on Christmas Eve, Albarino said to Officer Hardy, "Say hello to Wallis on our behalf."

Herstal frowned.

Olga stood in front of the podium, pointing at the big screen with a laser pointer. She is a visiting professor at Westland State University and only teaches one class a year, and aside from teaching her weekly class and serving as a consultant for WLPD, she spends her free time wrestling with editors Going up - I have to say, such days are much more nourishing than working in BAU, no wonder the profilers like to change their careers to publish autobiographies after retirement.

Now the amphitheatre is crowded with people, and everyone's faces are shone eerily by the light blue brilliance of the projector. Olga knew that many of the people who took this course did not want to learn anything about real criminal psychology, but to satisfy their curiosity, and in this course they could actually see the real crime scene. Photo - It is such a person who will watch with great curiosity the process of Eskimos eating seals in "Nanuk of the North", and curiosity has always been a human instinct.

Olga tapped the keyboard and switched to the next photo, and there was a small gasp among the students.

"This is Trepp Caroan," Olga introduced in a flat voice, "the twenty-fourth deceased of the Westland pianist. He was found dead in his home at the end of April last year. On, after cutting open his abdomen and taking out most of his organs, the killer stuffed his severed hands, feet and genitals into his abdominal cavity, then sewed back the abdominal wound - we've been doing it this month The subject of the pianist, you must have studied all his cases, who can tell me why he did this?"

A few hands were raised sparsely in the huge lecture hall. Of course, when you ask questions, this group of college students will do that to you. Olga clicked casually in the crowd, and then a man stood up from the back row of the lecture hall.

Anyone who is not blind can come to the conclusion that the person standing up is clearly not a student of this university.

It was a middle-aged man who looked over fifty. His black hair had turned mostly silver-gray, and his chin was covered with jagged, whitish stubble.

After he stood up, he really answered the question in a calm tone: "Because Tleip Caroan was suspected of killing four women, the last victim was three months pregnant when he was killed."

Olga nodded and gestured for him to sit down. The man looked a little familiar, but she couldn't imagine where she had met him for a while, but it wasn't a big deal, and a reporter had been in her class before.

"That's right, the Westland pianist likes to do something similar with his victims - his creativity in killing is tied to what his victims have done before," Olga continued. "Some profilers like to call it 'a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye', and they think the pianist's motive is that he is driven by a sense of mission, but I don't think so; rather than saving the world from sin The God of the Mire plot, I am more inclined to think that such a murder can make him feel excited, let's talk about the evidence enough to support this assertion..."

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