What's wrong with this lawyer?!

Chapter 385: The More You Study Criminal Law, the More Fun It Becomes_2



Still the same phrase, a case, especially a major and complex case, the trial is just the final lag.

And before that, both the court and the parties' representatives must do a lot of preparatory work.

You submitted evidence, the court reviewed it, but now you want to withdraw it, this behavior is very inappropriate.

But it's not to say it can't be withdrawn; for example, if you find a problem with the evidence after submission, you can naturally withdraw it.

So Old Zhou must inform the other members of the collegiate bench, which will decide whether to allow the withdrawal.

Judge Sun quickly became aware of the situation.

"Are the people from Dajin Company out of their minds? We just had the pre-trial meeting yesterday and exchanged the evidence, and now they want to withdraw it?"

"What do they take our court for!"

Old Zhou handed the new evidence submitted by Old Tang over: "Judge Sun, I think it might be related to this, take a look."

Judge Sun took the report and flipped through it roughly, then laughed: "Lawyer Tang acted quickly here."

"Looking at it this way, it seems there are some problems with the evidence, but Lawyer Tang is going to be disappointed this time, haha."

Old Zhou also laughed, feeling pleased to see Old Tang stumped.

After pondering for a moment, Judge Sun said: "Old Zhou, handle this, approve Dajin's withdrawal of evidence, and inform Lawyer Tang about the new evidence and see if he wants to withdraw it too."

The new evidence was meant to verify the opponent's technical drawings, but now that the opponent has voluntarily withdrawn them, the new evidence has become meaningless.

Of course, if Old Tang doesn't want to withdraw, that's okay too, it's just that during the trial, this evidence will be placed aside as "irrelevant to the case."

It doesn't have much meaning, similar to a withdrawal.

Old Zhou nodded and promptly arranged it.

Dajin's side, Jie Jianbin, and Manager Qiao hadn't left yet, if the High Court didn't approve the withdrawal, they would have to think of a way.

There's no way around decisive judgments, but in such situations, some leniency is possible.

As soon as Jie Jianbin heard from Old Zhou that the withdrawal was allowed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Judge Zhou, thank you so much." Jie Jianbin quickly expressed his gratitude.

Judge Zhou waved his hand to indicate it was nothing, only saying: "This time was an exception due to special circumstances, it can't happen again, Director Jie, you should be aware of this situation."

"Yes, absolutely, I assure you it won't happen again."

After completing the procedures for withdrawing the evidence, Jie Jianbin and the others left, while Old Zhou dialed Old Tang's number.

At Tengda, Old Tang was already in the office, excitedly working.

Wang Qingqing sat silently, as she was the most familiar with Old Tang.

Whenever Old Tang showed this behavior, it usually meant that "one to an uncertain number" of people might end up sewing machines.

Who knows where Brother Tang gets such morbid amusement.

Just as Old Tang was busy, his phone rang; upon picking it up, he saw it was Old Zhou.

"The other side withdrew those drawings? Oh, this is interesting... Okay, I agree to withdraw the new evidence too..."

Old Zhou said on the phone: "That's okay, by the way, I haven't notified the other party about the new evidence yet, hanging up now."

Putting down the phone, Old Tang's smile grew even wider, Old Zhou seemed to be picking up bad habits!

Anyway, it definitely wasn't because of him, it was surely Old Zhou's inherent nature!

But, with the opponent's move, the final doubt can be filled in, he could actually report it.

However, Old Tang didn't want to report it yet, for a simple reason, the civil case hasn't opened yet.

Once he reports it, the Public Security Authorities will undoubtedly file it, and then the commercial secret infringement case will be difficult to handle.

Because there is a correlation between the cases, according to the principle of "criminal first, civil later," this case would have to be suspended until the criminal case concludes.

In the meantime, changes might occur.

Old Tang isn't afraid of trouble, but the client, Tengfei Company, might not be able to withstand it.

So it's better to finish the civil case first before dealing with other things.

Director Jie is quite a worthy opponent, cleverly defusing this bomb this time.

But what if Old Tang had blocked both ends from the beginning?

What if the defusing action could serve as evidence for the criminal case?

Old Tang grew more and more excited, criminal law truly becomes more entertaining the more one studies it!

Gradually, the day of the trial finally arrived.

At Handong Province High Court, Old Tang, accompanied by Huang Zhongyi and Cui Zhengyu, made their way to the courtroom and sat in the plaintiff's seat.

There were many technical issues involved in this case, so he had to bring professionals along, in case explanations were needed.

After a short wait, Jie Jianbin arrived with his assistant and Manager Qiao, since it was a closed hearing, there were no other attendees.

The collegiate bench was composed of seven people, Judge Sun was the Presiding Judge, and Old Zhou sat on the judge's seat to the side.

Very soon the trial began, entering the court investigation phase, and both parties started to present their statements.

Old Tang began the statement first, with his main argument being that Dajin Company, the design company, and Tao Zhongcheng collectively infringed on Tengfei Company's commercial secrets and should bear joint liability, compensating Tengfei Company for losses amounting to over 1.2 billion.

Jie Jianbin immediately responded, with his main argument being that Dajin Company did not engage in commercial secret infringement, as the technical information was not within the scope of commercial secrets, it had long been made public, lacked secrecy, and had no practical or commercial value.


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