Chapter 152: The Professional Significance of Being a Lawyer_2
In big cities it's easy to talk, but in some small county courts, when Old Tang went to file a case, the court even directly said they don't handle things like criminal self-prosecution.
Later, he ran to the municipal intermediate court to complain, and only then was the case successfully filed.
However, after a long time, Old Tang finally managed to file cases for all one hundred and twenty-three people.
He was always very cautious about choosing to self-prosecute criminally, only proceeding if it strictly met the regulations.
Da Tian County, a small mountain county in Hanxi Province with particularly few permanent residents and a poor economic level.
At this moment, in a room in the county, Feng Xingyue, who was already close to thirty years old this year, was giving a student a private lesson. Although there are various prohibitions against private tutoring, it's something you really can't ban.
There were seven or eight students sitting in the room, all listening attentively to the lesson, with several parents sitting outside playing on their phones.
Just then, one of the parents looked up and suddenly said, "Hey, wait a minute, the police are coming, what's going on?"
The police? The parents stood up, quite bewildered. Isn't private tutoring supposed to be managed by the bureau of education? Why were the public security officers here now?
By then, it was too late to say anything. The police officers walked up to the door, looked inside, and then said, "Is the person inside Feng Xingyue, the teacher?"
"It's Teacher Feng. Officer, our children are not doing well in their studies, we asked Teacher Feng to help teach them..." a parent quickly said.
The police officer waved his hand, "We don't handle your private tutoring matter. Someone call out Teacher Feng for me, there's something we need her to cooperate with."
Having no choice, one of the parents pushed the door open and called out, "Teacher Feng, someone's looking for you outside."
Feng Xingyue adjusted her glasses with a bit of confusion. She was on vacation and just wanted to earn some money by tutoring; who could be looking for her? Someone from the education bureau?
Walking out with a mix of trepidation, she saw several police officers waiting there.
"You're Feng Xingyue, right? Your ID number... your platform username 'Moon Above the Willow Tops' is you, isn't it?" one of the officers began.
Feng Xingyue was taken aback. So they weren't here about the private tutoring?
"Yes, it's me. Is there a problem?" Feng Xingyue cautiously asked.
"We've received a notice from the court; you are suspected of internet defamation and have now been criminally charged. We are summoning you to the station for an investigation. Here's the summons notice."
Actually, the procedure for summoning people in small county towns wasn't that strict, and there were things like blank summonses, but this time was different. The materials transferred from the court were executed by the public security organs, and the procedures were entirely without any issues.
Internet defamation? Feng Xingyue, who had also forgotten about the incident of cursing people online, looked blankly as the seriousness of the police officers' faces reminded her of the time she'd lashed out.
Feng Xingyue was also one of the people who had called to curse Li Wanting.
"No, officer, listen to me, I only said a few words, I didn't commit a crime!"
The parents were all a bit dazed, wondering what was going on now. One of them suddenly said, "Hey, I remember that there was some internet violence incident online before, right? A lawyer was terribly abused."
"Then I heard it turned around..."
"Ah yes, yes, I remember now, so Teacher Feng this is..."
No one spoke anymore; no one could imagine that the usually gentle Teacher Feng would also curse like that online—it was quite incomprehensible.
"Whether it's a crime will be determined by the court. Now you need to come with us for the investigation. Let's go!"
Feng Xingyue had no choice but to obediently follow them. She hadn't even gotten on the police car when her legs went soft, and she began to cry desperately.
"I was wrong; I shouldn't have insulted her. I was just trying to say a few words in support of that pregnant woman..."
The same thing was happening in various places. Those in the county town still fared better; some people were even in the countryside and, when taken away from their homes, their entire family thought the police were randomly arresting people.
It could only be said that the current legal education on internet violence was still not sufficient. Explore more adventures at empire
The criminal self-prosecution had already filed, and civil cases were also starting to be filed in batches. Reportedly, five intern lawyers from Tengda pushed a cart loaded with materials to the Guangming District Court.
Reportedly, the chief of the case filing office cursed Tang Fangjing for a full half-hour in his office that day. As for the judges of the civil court, some even wanted to fight Tang Fangjing to the death.
Everyone gets the same salary; the judges at the court in Xihong District are living leisurely, whereas here, it's like pressing on with heavy weights!
Why is it so? The judges did not dare to do anything drastic, otherwise, they would have thought about striking.
As for the court's labor union, don't count on them; getting some mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival is already considered them doing something...
In such an atmosphere, Old Tang returned to Jingzhou very low-key, and only Old Song and Old Wang knew he was back.
There was no choice, Old Zhou called him over a dozen times a day asking for his whereabouts, wanting to discuss the details of the case in person. Even if he had Resurrection Armor, he didn't dare to be too conspicuous at this time, given the excessive number of cases.
The situation was manageable since it was after New Year's; otherwise, if so many cases had suddenly come at the end of the year, the judges would have been driven to despair, with the case closure rate dropping to a terrifying degree.
As for those defendants in the criminal self-prosecution wanting to settle, let them come to Jingzhou. He's the plaintiff; he holds the initiative.
And as for Li Wanting, Old Wang had already given her leave, letting her go out to clear her mind.
Tengda now has high revenues, so Old Wang isn't worried about the leave days.