Chapter 94 Public Trial (Additional update for the boss, it’s not good for the helmsman to be like t

In the court, the young lawyer defending the victim smiled and listened to the judge confusing right and wrong, but remained silent.

Soon, accompanied by the mourning of the parents of the murdered siblings, Vezinier raised his gavel and pronounced the verdict: "This court declares that Runache is not guilty of rape and murder and is acquitted."

Just when the gavel in his hand was about to fall, the young lawyer suddenly stood up and shouted: "This is an illegal verdict! You are trampling on the law!"

Vezinier shook his head. He had seen many such noisy young people. He smiled contemptuously and waved to the bailiff: "Drive this guy out! By the way, what is his name? He will then be charged with insulting the court." "

The lawyer said without flinching: "My name is Danton! George Jacques Danton, you can sue me!"

He raised a few more pieces of paper above his head: "But Mr. Judge, you have to explain first what these letters are about!"

"Letter? What letter?" Vezinier looked at those pages and felt that they seemed familiar. Suddenly his expression changed. It seemed to be a letter he had written to Vareyere! Why did it fall into the hands of this lawyer? !

The letter was naturally given to the lawyer by the Police Intelligence Department.

Not long ago, Joseph accidentally heard Fouche mention that the lawyer of the victim in the "Runacher case" was named Danton, so he immediately asked someone to check the registered lawyers of the High Court and learned that there was only one named "Jacques Danton" among them.

In other words, this young lawyer was the later Jacobin leader.

Historically, Dandong hated evil and had a very high level of speech, and could easily incite thousands of people to riot.

So Joseph immediately decided to leave the finishing work of dealing with Vezinier to him. When encountering a case of this extremely egregious nature, Dandong would definitely be able to make a big splash.

At the trial site, Danton jumped onto the chair in the auditorium and read out loud the part of Vezinier's letter that could be used as evidence: "My dear old friend, I saw your manservant. But I still have I need to confirm, do you really want me to intervene in Runache's case?

"As for the money, it has to be used for up and down management. You know, just for the evidence room, you have to give them ten thousand livres. After all, destroying evidence is a very serious crime...

"I don't know what they're going to do with that witness, but I swear to you, I can acquit your nephew as long as that damn carpenter doesn't open his mouth...

"Poor Runache must have had enough of the moldy and cold prison. Oh, originally he was going to stay there until death, or even the gallows. But don't worry, I will let him out after the next court session..."

"Bailiff! Stop him!" Vezinier pointed at Danton and shouted like crazy, "He is lying!"

Before several bailiffs in the court could react, Vezinier had already impatiently stepped on his chair, jumped out from behind the trial table, and rushed towards Danton with red eyes.

The latter, however, nimbly ran and dodged among the tables and chairs in the courtroom, while continuing to read the letter.

By the time he finished reading the key points, he had already run to the door of the court, pushed aside the bailiff who was guarding there, and rushed out of the door.

Thousands of citizens had already gathered outside the High Court, many more than usual to protest. They were all just summoned by Marat, Desmoulins and others to cooperate with the trial.

Danton rushed to the iron fence of the court and shouted: "That shameless and despicable guy just now humiliated the law in front of everyone! He actually acquitted the murderer!"

The crowd immediately burst into angry roars: "Hang the murderer!"

"Hang that corrupt judge too!"

"Hanging! Must be hanged!"

Dandong signaled everyone to be quiet and raised the letter in his hand: "I have obtained the evidence that the judge is corrupt, and I will definitely make him receive the punishment he deserves!"

Several bailiffs wanted to stop Dandong, but under the intimidation of thousands of people, they were afraid to step forward.

In fact, more than 30 police officers were on standby just over ten steps away. If the bailiffs dared to take action, they would immediately rush in and save Dandong.

Danton continued to shout: "In order to prevent those people from destroying the evidence, I suggest that we hold a public trial here!"

The crowd suddenly shouted again:

"Public trial!"

"Right here, let's watch the trial!"

“Get out of here, the judge who let the murderer go!”

In this way, the angry people roared for a whole day, and more and more people gathered.

It was not until dusk that Chief Minister Brian appeared and promised in public that the Vezinier bribery case would be heard publicly in the square in front of the High Court by the Royal Court of Plenipotentiary, and people gradually dispersed.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Vezinier asked his men to confirm repeatedly that there were no protestors outside the court, then he put on a coachman's clothes and sneaked out from the back door.

However, what he didn't know was that the people from the Police Intelligence Department had been watching him in the dark.

Vézinier's carriage had just passed two streets when someone shouted: "The judge who collaborated with the murderer is here!"

"Everyone, come quickly, Vezinier is here!"

Torches were quickly lit around him, and Marat rushed up with hundreds of people, pulled Vezinier out of the car, and beat him severely without any explanation.

In the corner, dozens of police officers felt that they were done, and they showed up with whistles to separate the crowd - after all, they couldn't really beat the criminal to death, otherwise there would be no subject for trial.

On the ground, Vezinier had been beaten to the point of losing his human form, lying in a pool of blood and twitching.

Two days later, a judge was dispatched by the Royal Court of Plenipotentiary to hear the Vezinier case in public at the entrance of the High Court.

The Royal Court of Plenipotentiary was under the control of the king and was still very authoritative in the era before Louis XIV. Later, the authority was gradually transferred to the High Court, and now it has become a ceremonial institution.

Several judges never dreamed that they would one day actually hear a case.

However, with thousands of angry citizens watching, no one dared to question whether they were qualified to hear the case.

Vezinier, who had one of his legs broken, was lying on the side covered with bandages, moaning in pain from time to time.

Danton handed the letters to the judge, claiming that they still existed at Vezinier's house.

The judge immediately ordered a search of Vezinier's home, and soon a letter from "Vareyere" was found in his study.

The letters exchanged between the two parties corroborated each other, and further confirmed the fact that Vezinier accepted bribes to exonerate Runacher.

Lying on the wooden board, Vezinier couldn't figure out why these letters appeared in his home after he had obviously burned them.

In fact, "Vareyere" wrote two copies of her letters, one for Vezinier to burn, and the other for her maid to put quietly into his study.

Subsequently, the Monterey family was also called to testify. Under the evidence and the glare of countless people, the couple quickly admitted to bribing the judge.

The Royal Court of Plenipotentiary also announced in public that Vezinier was found guilty of bribery, cover-up, and destruction of evidence and sentenced to fifty years in prison. And because of Vezinier's bad character, the court announced that all the cases it had previously heard would be remanded for a new trial.

Thousands of citizens who were watching suddenly burst into thunderous cheers. Only Danton, Marat and others were not in high spirits. They wanted only one verdict, and that was hanging.

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