Chapter 705 Attack
Chapter 705 Attack
————Taishu Komiyama didn’t die from a blow to the head, but from an acute heart attack?
The presiding judge, who originally thought that Xiang Yuanguang was talking nonsense, was also stunned at this moment.
Because he thought of the key point that had been mentioned in the previous debate between Genkou and Oda Yoya, that [the posture of the deceased when he died was with his hands covering his heart, not his head].
"Lawyer Xiang Yuan... can you really be sure that the deceased died of an acute heart attack?"
The presiding judge asked seriously.
"If the deceased really died of an acute heart attack, then the murder weapon proposed by the prosecutor cannot be regarded as the murder weapon. But to say whether it is perjury, further investigation is needed."
"Since Attorney Xiang Yuan said that there is evidence that the deceased died of an acute heart attack, please show it to us."
At the testimony stand, Kitano Shunsuke's mood fluctuated greatly and he could not calm down.
He nervously watched Xiang Yuanguang take out the evidence from his bag—the evidence he gave to Xiang Yuanguang last night!
"The evidence that can prove this is this!"
He snapped his fingers at Yuan Guang and said affirmatively.
"The defense needs to present evidence [photos of the crime scene] and evidence [medicine bottle]!"
————Photos and medicine bottles?
The existence of these two pieces of evidence flashed through Oda Yoya's mind.
He looked at the photo of the scene that Xiang Yuanguang had magnified again, and then his sight fell on the medicine bottle that was particularly conspicuous after being pointed out by Xiang Yuanguang——
This medicine bottle is different from the sealed medicine bottles in the forensic class.
The medicine bottle at the crime scene was open!
"I believe everyone has noticed the difference between the medicine bottle on the evidence table and the medicine bottle at the crime scene. That's right, the medicine bottle at the crime scene was [opened]."
"According to the forensic examination report, this medicine bottle contains digitalis tablets."
Xiang Yuanguang picked up the paper documents, clapped his hands, then put his hands on his hips and spoke affirmatively.
"Digitalis tablets are key drugs for treating acute heart attacks, and if an acute heart attack occurs, the patient can die completely in just a dozen seconds."
"The patient only had a few seconds to call for help. If he missed that time, he would be unable to call for help due to suffocation. The defendant was clearly in a state of acute heart attack at the time."
"Otherwise, the medicine bottle at the crime scene couldn't have been opened!"
"No way! Why couldn't the medicine bottle at the crime scene be opened?"
Oda Yoya asked loudly.
"It wasn't until other people entered the crime scene that there was another person inside, right? That was the defendant, Tsuda Hideo. If it was him who opened the medicine bottle, it was just so that you could help him get rid of the crime now————"
"Isn't this also a possibility?"
The whole place was in an uproar.
However, before the audience in the gallery could start discussing, Xiang Yuanguang had already stretched out his hand and pointed towards the prosecutor's seat.
The next moment, a strong wind whistled and hit Oda Yoya hard, forcing him to retreat again and again until his back was against the wall of the prosecutor's seat, with no room for retreat!
The verbal bomb is launched!
"A pound of pears! The prosecutor's counterargument is meaningless!"
The hedgehog-haired lawyer's eyes were sharp and he spoke bluntly.
"If it is said that the defendant opened the medicine bottle at the crime scene, then there will be a huge conflict with the facts of this case. The reason is that there is no fingerprint of anyone other than Taiji Komiyama on the medicine bottle!" "...The lack of fingerprints may also be due to the fact that he was wearing gloves or wiped off his fingerprints!"
Oda Yoya, who was stuck to the wall, struggled to get down, slapped his palms on the table at the prosecutor's seat, and shouted loudly.
"Impossible! If the defendant opened the medicine, he certainly couldn't have worn gloves or wiped off his fingerprints!"
Xiang Yuanguang also clapped his hands on the table at the prosecutor's seat.
The sound of slamming the table was many times louder than that of Oda Yoya, so much so that it completely suppressed Oda Yoya's momentum. At this moment, he looked up and asked with certainty.
"If the defendant wore gloves, he might have wiped off the fingerprints at the scene!"
"Then, please tell me, Prosecutor Oda, why are there defendant Tsuda Hideo's fingerprints on the murder weapon at the scene? Could it be that he even remembered to wipe off the fingerprints on the medicine bottle cap, but forgot to wipe off the fingerprints on the murder weapon?!"
————This, if you think about it carefully, it seems to be true.
Oda Yoya finally fell silent.
As he said before, the court of trial looks at evidence. Now that Xiang Yuanguang has produced evidence that can prove his inference and has made additional reasoning, no matter what assumptions he makes now, it is meaningless.
After the rapid debate between Genmi Mutsuki and Yoya Oda ended, the presiding judge widened his eyes.
"So, does that mean the deceased really died of an acute heart attack, rather than a blow to the head?"
"If you look at it this way, at the crime scene, the deceased's hands were not covering his head but his heart, and the bottle of digitalis tablets was opened and rolled to the side. This all makes sense!"
Many audience members in the gallery were talking about this.
They had not expected that at the end of the trial debate, the final result might be that the deceased had died of an acute heart attack, and there was no so-called murderer at all!
"…It's still not right. How can you be sure that the deceased wasn't stabbed during an acute heart attack?"
Faced with the discussions, Oda Yaoya suddenly asked loudly.
The audience fell silent for a moment, and many listeners looked at each other, realizing that this case would not end so easily.
"If the deceased was in the middle of an acute heart attack or had just had one, and the defendant entered the room, picked up the vase and killed the deceased, wouldn't that make sense?"
"Doesn't this also answer your earlier question about the lack of signs of a struggle or argument at the scene?"
"Because of Yasushi Komiyama's acute heart attack, he was unable to argue or fight with the defendant Tsuda Hideo, so he could only be beaten to death by Tsuda Hideo while he was physically disabled——————"
"Really? Then why are there no marks of blows on the face?"
Xiang Yuanguang touched his chin with his hand and asked directly.
"The deceased fell backwards on the floor with his head after the heart attack. Therefore, if the defendant wanted to hit the deceased with the vase, he could only hit the face because there were no fingerprints of the defendant on the deceased's clothes."
"As for hitting someone in the face, whether it's hitting the forehead, the nose, or the eyes..."
"It's possible to tell at a glance whether there are any signs of blows, right? Could it be that Prosecutor Oda found signs of blows on the victim's face from the photo of the crime scene I just showed you?"
————I am speechless.
Xiao Tianyao couldn't hold it anymore and could only remain silent.
(End of this chapter)