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On the slightly distorted screen, the director of security stood on the witness stand, his hand on the Bible.

"I swear to the Supreme God that every statement I make here is the truth and I will not commit perjury!"

Some people who were listening at the scene also smiled, as if the head of the security department had simply sworn an oath, and he really would not lie!

This is a very special "culture" based on the belief that there is a God and that there are two places, heaven and hell.

Swearing on the Bible in court has two meanings. The first meaning is to clarify one's responsibilities and promise not to lie or perjury.

If a witness is found to have falsified his testimony, he will have violated relevant laws. Although the crime of perjury is not a felony in the federal government, it is definitely not a trivial matter.

Provocation against justice often only results in the judge's anger, so it may not be a big crime, but the punishment will not be lighter at all.

Another meaning is that if you commit perjury, you will not go to heaven, because the witness deceived God.

Those who deceive God can only go to hell!

It may seem like this is just a formal process, but there are many cases in federal history where witnesses did not dare to swear on the Bible!

They excuse themselves as non-believers or some other reason and refuse to swear to God according to the Bible.

Of course, everyone knew without interrogation that they must have lied in their testimony.

The Minister of Security swore without any hesitation. This kind of determination and attitude is what everyone wants to see. As for whether he can lie, it is actually not important anymore.

People believe that believers will not lie, at least they will not lie and bear the responsibility of going to hell!

The Minister of Security is much fatter than before. Under the dual protection of the Security Committee and the military, he eats and drinks well. The doctor even suggested that he should exercise more.

He immediately saw his wife and children sitting in the gallery, when the Security Committee took over and began investigating the case.

They believe that if the Minister of Security is to be silenced, it means that he must have some key evidence.

And these evidences could not have been taken away by him in a hurry, so they must still be in the collector's house.

So they searched his house and eventually found the family in the secret room.

Fortunately, the Security Committee did not embarrass them, but provided them with appropriate protection. This is one of the reasons why the Minister of Security was willing to appear in court.

If he refuses to appear in court, he will be transferred to an ordinary detention facility, such as the holding cell of a regional police station.

And his family will be sent home.

It is conceivable that this is equivalent to sending their whole family to death, so he made a firm oath.

He had already firmed up his ideas.

Either he dies or a senior company executive dies. Some people have to die to put the case to rest.

This time he appeared in court as a witness and also the defendant, but now he has become a tainted witness.

However, because the case was special, the charges against him were not dropped.

After the Prosecutor General read some documents, he looked at the Minister of Security, "Do you admit that you hired a murderer to try to murder President Trueman?"

It was a shocking accusation as soon as he opened his mouth, but at this time, the Minister of Security did not actually have much fear.

He nodded, "Yes, I received instructions to hire a killer to prepare for the assassination."

"Who gave you the order?"

The Minister of Security replied: “It’s Mr. Chairman of the company’s board of directors and Mr.

He named two names. One was the chairman of the board of directors of his company, and he was also one of the directors and shareholders of Norinco.

The other gentleman is the nephew of a member of the board of directors of the group company and also plays a very important role.

The prosecutor general was not completely satisfied with his simple answer, "Do you have any evidence to prove that they gave you such an order?"

The Minister of Security nodded, "I have a recording that can prove what I said!"

There was a noise in the court because no one expected that he actually had a recording!

The judge picked up his gavel and knocked on the table, "Quiet."

The noisy people became quiet again.

The audience in front of the TV was not so obedient. Everyone was talking enthusiastically about what was on the tape.

Lynch, who was sitting in his office watching the almost live broadcast of the trial, was also asked this question.

He shook his head, indicating that he was not sure.

He also got the broadcast rights from Blackstone TV, which only costs 600,000.

It’s not the broadcasting fee for one trial, it’s the broadcasting fee for all court trials.

The prosecutor general on television presented the evidence to the court and then had it played.

The staff responsible for the playback wore gloves during the entire process and kept their bodies some distance away from the player.

He was not allowed direct access to the tape, only the buttons.

After he pressed play, the tape began to spin and a sound came from the loudspeaker.

"There's a light bulb that's broken, we need to turn it off, you go find an electrician."

"Looking for it from the outside or from the inside?"

"No matter what, find a new face from outside."

"When can he be sent to turn off the broken light bulb?"

"Waiting for my news."

"Is anyone still there?"

"Still there!"

"Let him prepare and be ready to work in no more than a month. I hope he is in good condition for his job."

"knew."

"Did you receive the note giving the price?"

"received."

"The plan remains unchanged. Find a suitable time in late November or early December."

"knew."

When they got here, at the instruction of the prosecutor general, the staff turned off the tape recorder.

People started talking again, because these three phone calls did not look like a murder order at all.

This is also the most controversial point in federal judiciary - code words cannot be used as valid evidence in legal actions.

If you are not a participant, you will not know what they are talking about.

And sometimes people can say similar words through some hints and temptations when they speak.

It is possible that in order to achieve certain purposes, some people may induce certain people to say specious things and then accuse them of being criminal evidence.

It is clear that if the judiciary adopts this argument, many people will be unjustly imprisoned.

Therefore, from the beginning, the Ministry of Justice did not admit that code words were effective evidence.

This is why many crimes are so difficult to convict, as they are now.

The judge banged his gavel again and the crowd fell silent again.

Although this kind of code word cannot be used as evidence to convict someone, it can be used as an auxiliary content to make people understand the facts more clearly.

While federal law does not recognize these code words, they also propose another set of rules of the game.

Motive, chain of evidence, chain of logic.

To put it simply, a person first needs to have a motive to do something. Once he has a motive, he can start to conduct detailed investigation.

During the investigation, find a chain of evidence that can form a closed loop, such as the murder weapon in a murder case.

When these preparations are sufficient and there are no logical problems, the issue of conviction can be considered.

Even if there is some key evidence, there is no problem, because the jury will make up this part of the content. As long as there is key evidence and the logic is consistent, the jury will give a guilty verdict.

The judge looked at the Minister of Security, "I noticed that the code words you used are very similar to the code words used by gangs?"

As a lifelong justice, he has been exposed to too many cases, and he also knows that gangsters have their own set of code words, which are universal to a certain extent.

In gangster code, "lightbulb" refers to "people".

In the past, they would use "candle" to refer to "person" or "target", and "wax blower" to represent the killer who carried out the assassination.

To blow out the candle is to kill the person.

Now that light bulbs have replaced candles as the mainstream lighting equipment, the code words between gangs will naturally continue to develop.

The purpose of the development is not to keep up with the trend, but to prevent the anti-organized crime investigation agency from discovering through surveillance some snippets of their communications that may have leaked.

It also makes these conversations look more harmonious. Isn’t it more inconspicuous to use “turn off the lights” instead of “blow out the candles”?

In the past there were "wax blowers," and now there are "electricians."

"Electrician" refers to the killer. In fact, the judge himself knew these contents very well, but he needed the Minister of Security to explain it himself.

Tell it to the jury, tell it to the people in the gallery, tell it to everyone else!

Amidst the continuous exclamations of people, the judge interrupted, "The last conversation mentioned a 'note', what is that?"

At this time the prosecutor general stood up and said, "Your honor, this is the second piece of evidence we are going to present today."

After the staff handed the evidence to the judge, copies of the evidence were also displayed.

A small piece of paper with some numbers recorded on it, only as thick as a finger, with a set of numbers on it.

There is also an accompanying item, a newspaper.

"The first four digits of the number on this note refer to the publication number of the Federal Daily News issued this year."

"What is recorded here is the newspaper issued on August 13th."

"The last four numbers refer to which edition and which content."

"The last string of numbers refers to which line and word the content of this report begins and where it ends."

"From here we can clearly find the content I have marked, which points to the third page of the Federal Daily issued on August 13."

"The third word in the second line of the report "Draft Amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law Calls for Social Information" is also the word "cutoff."

"And the word is."

"Truman!"

There was an uproar in the courtroom instantly!

Some people in the audience couldn't help but stand up!

These people actually discussed how to kill the president so openly, which was difficult for the people at the bottom to accept, even though they had forgotten Mr. Trueman for almost a year.

But they still stood up dominated by anger or fear.

On the contrary, the gentlemen of the upper class just watched all this happen indifferently!