After Gu Chen stated the four claims.
Zhang Zhiqiang and Zhu Guizhen at the plaintiff’s seats were both visibly angry.
They are the plaintiffs!
Gu Chen wants to send them in?
On what grounds?
Zhang Zhiqiang raised his hand to speak: "Judge, we are the victims! My father is gone! It was because Xie Siyu hit my father with her car, I am the victim, how dare she try to send us victims in? On what grounds?"
Zhu Guizhen also spoke: "I am also a victim! Xie Siyu should be punished! It was all her fault! And she still wants to send us in, on what grounds?"
Xie Siyu raised her hand to speak, "Because I didn’t hit anyone, it wasn’t me who hit someone."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhiqiang sneered: "Then let me ask you, you didn’t hit the person, so why did you go to help them?"
Judge Rong Liwei struck the gavel.
"Silence!"
"The defendant’s lawyer, please speak."
Everyone turned their attention to Gu Chen.
At this moment, Gu Chen began to speak.
Gu Chen: "The question raised by the plaintiff Zhang Zhiqiang is very intriguing. This was the same question that the judge in the first trial asked my client, ’You didn’t hit the person, so why did you go to help them?’
"Hearing someone ask such a question chills my heart."
"Helping others and selfless dedication have always been traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. When you see an elderly person fall to the ground, isn’t it the right thing to do to help them up? When an elderly person is lying on the ground, life or death uncertain, what’s wrong with helping them? Yet some people can ask such ridiculous questions; it’s truly absurd!"
"Do you mean that someone can only help if they hit the person first, and if they didn’t hit, they can’t help? What if one day your father or mother is walking and falls, unable to get up, with their life at risk? Should nobody help them, letting your parents fend for themselves, are you okay with that?"
Everyone at the scene fell silent.
The netizens in the live broadcast room did the same.
[Lawyer Gu speaks well!]
[Indeed, if my parents fell on the street, I would hope someone would help them up. Anyway, our family wouldn’t blackmail anyone.]
[Such blackmailers should bear legal responsibility. It’s disgusting, making society afraid to help elders.]
[Helping elders is now considered a mistake? A good person could get sentenced to ten years, doesn’t that sound absurd?]
[If Xie Siyu really gets sentenced to ten years, even if for just one cent, I won’t help an elder again.]
[Who dares to help elders; do they have a goldmine at home? Haha, even those with goldmines at home wouldn’t dare help now. Helping an elder could get you sentenced to ten years; could you handle that?]
Zhang Zhiqiang said: "But you did hit the person, the evidence is conclusive, there are both people and material evidence. It was you who hit my father, his leg was fractured! You’re still trying to shirk responsibility? And Zhu Guizhen also saw it, you hit him!"
Hearing this, Zhu Guizhen hurriedly nodded, "Yes, yes, yes, I was the primary witness! I saw with my own eyes that Xie Siyu was driving a Mercedes C and hit someone!! She hit the elder and me, and we were both knocked into the air by her! Xie Siyu hit and won’t admit it, still being stubborn!! My eyes are the best evidence!"
Zhu Guizhen had thought about it herself.
It’s impossible that Xie Siyu hit the elder first and then hit her, right?
After all, if Xie Siyu really hit the elder, she would have stopped, so Zhu Guizhen claimed Xie Siyu hit both her and the elder with the car and acted as a witness.
Precisely because of Zhu Guizhen’s eyewitness testimony at the first trial, coupled with the elder also claiming it was Xie Siyu who hit him, and the lack of surveillance footage at the scene, and since Xie Siyu’s car was already a wreck, with the dashcam broken, Xie Siyu ended up being held fully accountable, sentenced to pay 1.4 million and serve ten years.
The plaintiff’s lawyer said: "The chain of evidence is sufficient and complete, with both witnesses and material evidence. On Changfeng Street where the incident happened, only Xie Siyu was driving. Two people were hit, so it could only be Xie Siyu driving that caused the accident, and thus she must bear responsibility."
The plaintiff’s lawyer and the plaintiff were both resolute, firmly claiming that it was Xie Siyu who hit them, holding her responsible.
Gu Chen raised his hand.
Judge Rong Liwei looked at Gu Chen and said: "What refutation does the defense lawyer have?"
Gu Chen began to speak: "Judge, the plaintiff’s lawyer and the plaintiffs have been stating that it was my client Xie Siyu who hit the person. The first trial’s judgment was also based on this point."
Everyone nodded.
Gu Chen continued: "The plaintiff keeps emphasizing that Xie Siyu hit the person, please present the evidence of her hitting the person. If there’s no evidence that Xie Siyu hit the person, then my client is innocent."
"Is there surveillance footage from the location of the incident? Is there evidence that my client Xie Siyu hit the person? Is there any evidence?"
Plaintiff Zhang Zhiqiang said: "You cursed villain, my father was hit to death!! He died in the hospital with no one to treat him, and you can actually say such things??? Now you want evidence? Then tell me why my father died, huh?"
Gu Chen replied: "The hospital report states your father died of heart disease. Was your father hit to death on the spot?"
Zhang Zhiqiang chuckled, "My father said it was Xie Siyu who hit him, so it was Xie Siyu who hit him. Surely my father wouldn’t lie, right? If it wasn’t Xie Siyu who hit him, how did my father’s leg get fractured? Why was his body injured in multiple places? And Yan Guizhen also saw with her own eyes that it was Xie Siyu who hit the person, isn’t a witness evidence? Two people said it was Xie Siyu who hit the person, why deny it?"
Zhu Guizhen chimed in: "It was exactly Xie Siyu who hit him. I saw it with my own eyes that Xie Siyu hit the person! And why do we need to provide evidence? Haven’t we given evidence? Then have Xie Siyu prove it herself, show evidence she didn’t hit someone, also the front of Xie Siyu’s car was deformed from the crash! How can you say no one was hit when the car was deformed! How did you achieve that!!"
Gu Chen replied: "Legally, whoever asserts must prove. You two relying only on each other’s witness statements does not constitute evidence, which means you have no evidence that Xie Siyu hit anyone, which means Xie Siyu is innocent."
The plaintiff’s lawyer said: "Lawyer Gu, that’s a fallacy, if on a road without surveillance footage, a car ran over a person and the person who was run over couldn’t provide evidence, does that mean the car owner is innocent?"
"Both parties claim it was Xie Siyu who hit the person, therefore it was Xie Siyu who hit the person, unless Xie Siyu can provide evidence that she didn’t hit them, such as a dashcam video, otherwise she should bear full responsibility for this case. Why not take responsibility for hitting someone?"
"Are you bullying my clients because they don’t understand the law or evidence, so Xie Siyu can hit someone and not bear any responsibility?"