Thinking this.

Zhang Hao kept cursing internally, but quickly opened his mouth to refute.

"Opposing counsel, I reiterate once again."

"Our position is that the reason the defendant died was because our client mistakenly thought he was a thief!"

He started to take a step back.

His goal was never to attack others, but to reverse Du Ze and Duan Feipeng's motive for murder.

As long as the subjective attack becomes accidental death, Du Ze is very likely to be given a suspended death sentence...

Even though establishing the deceased as a thief would more easily achieve the goal.

But in the face of justice...

Going head-to-head will only turn into a pile of broken glass.

"Therefore, a conflict arose between the two sides!"

Zhang Hao hurriedly said loudly.

"And it was not our defendant's deliberate harm or intentional attack that led to the incident resulting in death!"

"It should be reclassified as manslaughter!"

Shi Shan did not speak, just sat high on the bench, observing calmly.

Xu Liang didn't bother with the judge either.

He spoke directly:

"Manslaughter?"

"What an outrageous joke!"

At this moment, Xu Liang wasn't using any legal principle to argue.

He was merely venting his emotions, looking at Zhang Hao, and his words were aggressive!

"Since you believe the defendant committed manslaughter."

"Then, from now on, if others see a homeless person rummaging through a trash can at night, can they also kill them for alleged manslaughter?"

"Does the law grant them equal human rights?"

Equal human rights... that's the most fundamental issue!

"Special circumstances should be treated specially!" Zhang Hao said.

"Do you have any special treatment!?"

Xu Liang angrily said:

"When a person can't even afford to eat, or drink a sip of clean water, and hasn't stolen or robbed, but can only survive by scavenging rotting, filthy garbage, you gave him no special treatment!"

"When he couldn't read, you didn't give him special treatment either."

"Even when he didn't resist from start to end, until he was beaten to death like a rat, you didn't accord him special treatment."

"Yet when it came to your interests, you take it seriously!"

Xu Liang questioned loudly, pointing his finger at the other's nose.

"I ask, is it special treatment for the deceased, or..."

"Special treatment for the two executioners!?"

"Opposing counsel, I now hold a skeptical stance towards your professional ethics!!!"

As soon as these words were uttered.

The atmosphere instantly felt like taking an ice bath on a hot summer day.

Previously, they were all confused by Zhang Hao's logic.

But upon hearing the plaintiff's words...

They finally came to their senses.

The other side was clearly being unreasonable!

If they were to decide based on his words, it did not appear like special treatment for the deceased at all...

Instead, they were showing lenience towards the defendant.

Showing lenience towards the two executioners who brutally murdered someone!

The previously quiet courtroom gradually began to stir.

"That's right, special treatment should look like special treatment!"

"Intentional murder gets special treatment? That's outright nonsense!"

"In the future, if I don't like someone and kill them claiming I thought they were a thief, is that also manslaughter?"

"This is an unscrupulous lawyer! Doesn't even have basic morality, saying such words, did he even consult his conscience!?"

"..."

The crowd was filled with righteous indignation, and the intensity of their anger was gradually increasing.

Indeed.

Zhang Hao was being unreasonable!

The opposing side provided no real evidence, all their views were subjective, and the only evidence was the mark on the trash can!

But the question arises.

Who would think that seeing someone rummage through a trash can in the middle of the night equates to stealing?

Let alone acting courageously to stop them!

Objectively, it doesn't substantiate their viewpoint at all!!!

In this situation… it's no different from stubbornly arguing!

At this moment.

Everyone watching television also frowned, casting hostile glances at Zhang Hao.

"I..."

Zhang Hao was at a loss for words, his lips quivered for a moment, but in the end, he had nothing to say.

He then fell into silence.

He himself knew that his argument had no basis.

The main reason he used these words was that… he wanted to win.

Even if it just commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment, for him, it would be a significant victory!

But unfortunately.

Once the desire to win deviates from the case, everything done falls against morality!

Seeing this.

Xu Liang took a deep breath, suppressing his anger toward Zhang Hao, he stood up, looked around, and spoke in a deep voice:

"Honorable presiding judge, esteemed citizens in the audience."

"I can assure you all, on behalf of the credibility of the law firm, that since December 13, 2004, when I took on this case."

"Until now, March 1, 2005, over nearly four months, I..."

"Received no income, and yet took the case without pay..."

No… income?

As soon as he finished speaking.

There was a moment of stunned silence in the courtroom, then everyone was shocked.

In this world, although lawyers can participate for the plaintiff, it usually costs the victim's family a considerable amount of money!

Otherwise, who would be willing to bear the responsibility without any benefits to fight your case?

Let alone the case of Duan Feipeng.

Initially, no one believed the case could be won!

Taking the case would simply ruin one's reputation, outright lowering the win rate!

Until the Prosecutor's Office announced on the 14th that a lawyer would represent the case, everyone was shocked, speculating how much money the deceased's family had spent, or where Wu Yong got the money to hire Xu Liang.

And now, the opponent actually said it themselves...

Pro bono!!!

"The reason I took the case without pay."

"Is because, on the night of the 13th."

"Victim's family member Wu Yong once told me this."

"People like them, born inferior, don't even consider themselves human, perhaps not even humanoid."

"From the moment they become conscious, they don't fantasize about their future because having a future is a luxury; maybe they'll die today or tomorrow."

"Their only thought is to live through today, live another day, and continue to barely hold on."

"For this goal, they have no dignity!"

"Eating slop, fighting stray dogs for food, or crawling into filthy sewers, these are normal."

"To live, they must endure. If they can't bear it, then they can't live."

"I believe, before he died, the deceased might have fantasized that if he didn't push the defendant, didn't resist, endured it, even if beaten bloody, perhaps when the defendant lost interest, he might not have had to die, he could continue to barely survive like a stray dog..."

Xu Liang spoke in a deep voice.

As his voice fell slowly, the present people actually found themselves quieting down without court management.

Until finally, only his voice echoed throughout the courtroom.

In the end...

"The law grants them equal status with citizens."

"Even if society denies their right to exist..."

"But we believe..."

Saying this, Xu Liang paused.

He uttered the last few words.

"At the very least, he should have died as a citizen of Eastern Country, and the assailants shall be sentenced for murdering a citizen of Eastern Country!"

"If the opposing counsel remains adamant in their views..."

"We are willing to see the case through to the end!"

After speaking.

Xu Liang pushed the microphone aside.

He no longer spoke, quietly sitting at the plaintiff's table.

After speaking.

There was silence in the court.

No one had anticipated that Wu Yong and others lived in such dire conditions, contrasted starkly with Duan Feipeng's privileged environment.

The comparison between the two only deepened the silence.

The defendant's side also remained silent.

After a long time,

The presiding judge Shi Shan moved.

Everyone instinctively looked at him.

No matter what, whatever evidence or representation is presented, in the end, it's the judge who convicts.

If they don't recognize it, no matter how eloquently Xu Liang spoke, it has no effect!

As for Shi Shan's attitude...

His face remained cold, showing no emotion.

Shi Shan looked at the defendant, "Does the defendant have anything else to add?"

Zhang Hao opened his lips, but ultimately said nothing, only shaking his head and saying:

"No."

Upon hearing this, Shi Shan nodded.

"In this case, the defendant's submitted arguments,,,"

He paused, then continued:

"Are not recognized!"

"The second trial..."

"Upholds the verdict of the first trial!!!"