The ins and outs of the case are obvious, but the jury members held their respective positions and argued in the conference room.

Citi's murder case is collectively called murder, which is divided into first-degree murder and second-degree murder.

Those who commit first-degree murder shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment. First-degree murder includes premeditated murder, multiple deaths due to negligence, and murder in the process of committing other serious crimes (such as arson, rape, robbery, night theft and abductee).

Those who commit second-degree murder shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than 20 years or life imprisonment. Second-degree murder includes murder in all circumstances other than first-degree murder, such as the perpetrator who did not plan to kill but temporarily intentionally, or presumed to have the intention to kill but did not succeed, and the intention to seriously injure the other party and result in death.

However, Citi is a place where miracles occur.

Citi implements the law of the sea, using past cases as an important basis for defense and judgment, so every lawyer can find various strange cases as a theoretical basis for his own defense. Even the precedent of murderers being acquitted in court is not without.

For example, ten years ago, a father once pulled out a gun and shot dead a bastard who killed his daughter in public at the door of the court. The murderer had just been sentenced to bail by the court. The father was finally acquitted in court.

Therefore, the sentencing schemes for first-degree murder and second-degree murder cannot cover all murder cases 100%.

At Citi, a good lawyer can use various means to make people escape safely from the gap in the French Open in the impossible.

Joban, the lawyer who defended Peter Jeremiah, is the most famous of such good lawyers.

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Half an hour later, the black judge True walked out of the conference room and announced the court hearing, and the verdict on Peter Jeremiah was as follows:

"The accuser and the defendant have no objection to the process of Peter Jeremiah's crime. After discussion by the jury, the court ruled as follows:

Peter Jeremiah impulsively shot Professor Rods due to a conflict of faith. After discussion by the jury, the murder was not premeditated and Peter Jeremiah was found guilty of second-degree murder.

Given that Peter Jeremiah has made great contributions to Citigroup, the court held that Peter Jeremiah's sentence to twenty years in prison and suspended execution was an appropriate sentencing plan.

The family of the victim Professor Rodes was in trouble for his life because of Professor Rodes' murder. The court held that Peter Jeremiah should bear the corresponding financial responsibility.

Starting next month, Peter Jeremiah will be required to provide 50% of his monthly income every month and enter Rods's wife's bank account. The behavior is monitored and executed by the police. The designated bank account will be automatically transferred until Professor Rods's young daughter can live independently after being over 18 years of age.

During this period, Peter Jeremiah is not allowed to leave Citi.

From the date when Rods' young daughter turns 18, Peter Jeremiah shall be sentenced to prison and shall be determined based on her performance of her family's financial responsibilities to Professor Rods.

If the prosecution and defense have any objections to this judgment, they should file a lawsuit with the superior court within 30 days."

Judge True announced the verdict.

This is a standard and muddy judgment, the result of combining all jurors' opinions.

However, this mixed together is pretty good. Although both Peter Jeremiah's supporter and Professor Rods' wife were a little dissatisfied with the verdict (who thought it was too heavy and too light), they could at least barely accept it.

When the court asked Peter Jeremiah, he said in court that he had made such a big mistake and was no longer worthy of continuing to study in Haval.

Although the court ruled that he only needed to transfer 50% of his income to the Rhodes family account, as a student, Peter Jeremiah's income was definitely not enough to maintain the original living standards of the Rhodes family.

So he decided to drop out of school and find a formal job. He hoped to do his best to provide Professor Rodes' family with a good living environment - at least not worse than Professor Rodes when he was alive.

To be honest, Peter Jeremiah said this in public in court. Although some people thought it was a performance, the young man said it in plain sight, as if he was telling a proper obligation without any passionate expression.

When this statement combined with the barrister Joe Ban, who provided Peter Jeremiah's past experience, supported Peter Jeremiah's collective signature petition, the petitioners outside the court, even those who opposed the court's resignation, had to admit that the words said in the mouth of the young man had a power to make believe.

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This is a spacious and bright basement.

In the minds of many people, the basement is often connected with words such as dim, cold, and damp, but for rich people, their basement is not like this, and the basement can still be luxurious beyond imagination.

White clouds wander quietly above the head, rivers flow gently beside them, and several custom-made chairs for ergonomic masterpieces are placed on the verdant lawn.

Modern three-dimensional projection technology has long been widely used, and it is not uncommon to create simulated natural environments underground.

However, here, except for the blue sky and white clouds above and the undulating mountains in the distance, the scenery created by three-dimensional projection, other things such as lawns, sunshine and streams are real.

The sunlight shining on these people is directly introduced into the natural sunlight underground through the optical fiber line through the sunlight collection equipment on the ground, and is not simulated sunlight generated by the sun simulator.

In such a luxurious place, the people inside are of course rich and powerful.

However, the six big shots present didn't look very good. There was also their shadow behind this trial, but the result of the trial was contrary to their efforts.

"We lost again this time."

"It's normal to lose. Among the twenty-four members of the grand jury, nine of the Desire Sect members, twelve members with good feelings for the Desire Sect, and the remaining three are neutral.

And Judge True is black—more than 95% of black people are supporters of the Desire Cult, why do you think you can win?”

"Yes, that old guy Qiao Ban never made a defense that he was unsure. Since he agreed to appear in court, he must have known something."

"Have our people gone to warn this old guy?"

"No, our people died before they even arrived at the law firm, and were hit by a car."

Nothing is for no reason. As the master of desire, this little thing cannot alarm him.

However, although Yayoi Motoka's direct troops did not alarm, the Desire Sect alone was already a top behemoth of Citi.

When the upper-level maintenance personnel of the Desire Sect noticed the Peter Jeremiah campus shooting, there were no need for any specific expressions from the Desire Sect. There were countless politicians who were competing for votes, organizations that wanted to gain favorable feelings for the Desire Sect, civilians who endured the grace of the Desire Sect, and schools that feared the pressure of the Desire Sect - yes, it was Haval University. Even if they were the top universities in the world, they would not dare to strode the Desire Sect's tiger beards and act together.

(The armed forces of the Desire Sect are called liberators; the policing forces are called sinners; the missionaries are called maintenance workers.

The liberator means liberating everyone from social pressure; the sinner means taking the sin of killing; the caretaker means protecting every person who contributes to civilization. Peter Jeremiah belongs to the caretaker sequence.)

Of course, the Desire Sect will not be too rude to put pressure on the Rods family, but whoever wants to influence the victims' families and make them have no idea that they should have will be severely cracked down on the guilty members of the Desire Sect.

These bigwigs wanted to take this opportunity to fight with the Desire Sect and test the Desire Sect's influence on Citi, but they could neither start from the victim's family nor control the selected jurors as before, and could only influence them from public opinion. This would be very limited in its power.

In the past five years, the guilty people of the Desire Sect have never been afraid of anyone!

Whoever dares to reach out, chop off his hand! He will just admit his guilt when he is caught, and it doesn't matter if he dies with his target.

The death soldiers of other people's bosses are calculated based on individual counts, while the crazy believers of the Desire Sect, those who are willing to die for the sect are calculated based on company counts. This is the terror of religion!

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"We have to do something, and if we don't react now, maybe we won't have a chance in the future."

The person who spoke was an old man with gray hair and a gloomy face.

"We have no chance anymore." Another man said helplessly: "Since Joseph Trundy came to power to reorganize the government, we have lost."

"There are not only one or two dead presidents in Citigroup, we have to make some efforts."

"Maybe, but over the past few years, there have been more than one or two rich people who have died in Citi. We have only dared to discuss something after hiding here?"

"That bastard Stell!" This person is talking about the inaugural President Stell.

"What's the use of saying this now? You didn't come forward at that time, and those who came forward were warned by that person. No one in this world wants to die."

What he said was that when Steel joined forces with a group of bigwigs to control the desire ranch, the twelve legends took action, scaring Steel and his group back.

"What should we do now? Over the years, we have watched the desire ranch grow step by step. Now they have pointed their guns at us. Do we have to wait to die?"

What we meet here today are all real big shots that Citi can count. Business giants like Caleb that have risen by new technologies cannot reach this circle.

In fact, at Citi, this group of people are really powerful. Their tentacles are everywhere in every corner of Citi. Many times, they don’t even have to talk, so naturally someone solves their problems.

But now, they are hiding underground like mice, even speaking with caution.

"The desire ranch is unstoppable. When we control the lifeblood of the economy, those politicians are no different from dogs, but now, I'm afraid they are the ones who want to dig us out the most. It is basically impossible to defeat the desire ranch through the government and legal means."

"You want to be tough? You're thinking too much. Now the Desire Sect has fully penetrated into the military and police systems. We can't transfer the army and cannot keep it confidential."

"Who said that if you are tough, you must mobilize the police and the army?"

"What do you want to do? Rely on those mercenaries, killers, or on those of us? Can they deal with the desire ranch? Stop kidding."

Although some books make mercenaries and killers magical, the more capable they are in the world, they have a high position. If mercenaries and those killers were really so terrible, they would have been bribed, incorporated, or even destroyed by the government. How could they be left wild?

To put it bluntly, these people are just doing some dirty work. Each of the six big guys here has their own private soldiers or even dead soldiers. However, it is okay to kill someone on weekdays. Even a local war can be launched abroad. However, it is purely nonsense to deal with a giant like the Desire Ranch in Citiland - as long as you think about how many people live in the Desire Ranch, it is enough to make anyone feel desperate.

At Citi, no matter how powerful the power is, it cannot match the 100 million people who work together! That is the real power of the whole country, and it is by no means comparable to any number of money.

Although you always say that someone is rich enough to rival a country, a real national-level force is not a power at all! With the order of the country, all bank accounts will be frozen and all transactions will be carried out under the supervision of the country. This is an absolutely devastating blow to these six financial industry leaders.

In the past, they could manipulate the government and have influence in all aspects of the government, but that was under the premise that there was no intervention of the same level or even higher-level forces.

Only the collective can compete against the collective; only the state can compete against the state. This confrontation is a competition of comprehensive forces, and it is not just something that money can control - what others recognize is money; if you are not recognized and cannot buy things, then that thing is waste paper.

What's more, until now, no one knows what twelve legends lurking in the Desire Ranch are all.

"Of course not those of us, but one person can!"

"Tsk, who did you say?"

"The East Sword Saint-Yanyu Motoka!"

"He hasn't taken action in the past few years, have you forgotten him?

This person is indifferent by nature, but he attaches great importance to his family. And he once said that when the time is right, he will come to Citi to challenge the Lord of Desire. If we can tell him to take all his strength, we may not be able to kill the Lord of Desire!"

A big man seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw.

"I have also watched that video from that year. No matter how you look at it, the Lord of Desire has the upper hand. Not to mention that the East Sword Saint may not be willing to take full advantage. Even if he is willing to fight to the death, he may not be the opponent of the Lord of Desire."

"The East Sword Saint once survived at the scene of the hydrogen bomb explosion and once killed the satellite. I don't believe that the Lord of Desire can be His opponent?"

"By the way, when it comes to the surviving of the hydrogen bomb explosion, there is another god. If she takes action, it may not be worse than the East Sword Saint. Moreover, how similar is the behavior of the desire ranch and the previous holy bishop? Perhaps it is easier to act as a god-the Artoria people have always disliked religion."

"This is also a method, but I think in terms of combat power, God's lower body may not be as good as the East Sword Saint."

"It is better to find a way to incite the East Sword Saint to take action. No matter who He and the Lord of Desire die, it will be a good thing for us, but God represents the source of our noble bloodline, so it is best not to have any trouble."

"Even if the East Sword Saint takes action, He and the Lord of Desire may not fight to the point of life and death."

"Didn't I say it? The East Sword Saint attaches great importance to his family. If we can make him think that the Lord of Desire hurts his family-"

"It's hard, there are a lot of people staring at it."

"Even if it is difficult, we must do it. We can't wait to die! The Desire Sect is now obviously going to turn Citi into a religious country. If we continue to develop like this, we have no place to stay."
Chapter completed!