Chapter 837 The judge killed the prosecutor
Jubal put his hands on his hips and nodded seriously, "OK, we need this Jimmy Barnett file, and we also need to talk to the entire court security team. "
Officer Duncan Davis glanced at his parents subconsciously, and pointed to himself with some embarrassment, "Well, there is no team, it's just me. I'm on duty here alone at night."
Jubal stared at this person for a long time, and it took him a while to react, "What about the surveillance? The court must have surveillance, right?"
Sheriff Simone Long was a little embarrassed. He touched his nose and took the initiative to answer for his subordinates, "There is no one in the office area, but there are entrances and exits to the court corridor on the second floor and the underground garage. The control room is on the underground floor. I can take you there."
"Then Alice and Jiejie go with Mr. Sheriff, we will be there later."
Jubal continued to look at the Sheriff's assistant who was a little confused, "The court has an ID punching system, right? ?”
“Oh, of course, you can check it from the computer system in my duty room.” Officer Duncan Davis carefully walked around the body on the ground, stood at the door and pointed behind him.
"Aubrey and I, after you finish surveying the scene, we will meet in the control room downstairs."
After arranging everything, Jubal nodded slightly towards Jack, turned and left crime scene.
The remaining investigation work at the murder scene was not complicated. Hannah got the evidence bag from the car they drove in. Clay helped Jack take off the deceased's tie and kept it separately as a murder weapon. There might be traces of the murderer on it. remaining epithelial cells.
Fingerprints on door handles require the forensic team to use special tools to extract them. Although the FBI has received special training, it is not professional after all, and they usually do not bring evidence boxes with them when they go out.
So all that was left was to take pictures, and it didn’t take much time to do this. A police officer was called to stay at the door to protect the scene. Jack took Hannah and Clay directly to the first floor of the court. control room.
What is gratifying is that the surveillance in the court is finally no longer an antique-level video tape recorder. The pixels are also very good, but the surveillance probes are very few and they are only installed in the two directions of the vehicle entrance and exit. One.
Jubal also arrived at this time, followed by Officer Duncan Davis.
"The last person to leave last night was Public Defender Joanna Orr, at 12:30 p.m., but the clock record showed that she left once that day at 5:30 p.m., and came back 20 minutes later, and stayed until Late at night.”
Jubal gave a suspect name.
"It can't be Joanna, right? That doesn't make sense." Officer Duncan Davis argued nervously.
"Is Attorney Joanna Orr six feet tall and weighing more than 180 pounds?" Jack asked with a smile.
Officer Duncan Davis shook his head like a rattle, "Of course not, Joanna is a graceful lady."
"That's not her, but it's possible that someone used her pass." Jack looked behind the two of them as he spoke.
Jubal knew what he was looking at and casually explained, "Aubrey and a police officer were on their way to the residence of Joanna Orr, who lives next to a nearby Walmart."< br>
"You left at 12:30 in the evening, right? What kind of car did Joanna drive?" asked Alice, who was sitting in front of the computer.
“Uh, a 2014 red Mazda.” Officer Duncan Davis blurted out, and then looked at everyone with a guilty conscience.
Probably this is another licking dog who is in a state of secret love. To put it mildly, he is an admirer. Alice, who is very experienced in this, shook her head imperceptibly and turned the computer screen towards him.
"Then can you tell me who the owner of this black SUV is?"
"Black SUV?" The eyes of everyone in the FBI couldn't help but light up, and they appeared at the first crime scene, outside the pool bar. The murderer who shot three assistant prosecutors with a submachine gun in the parking lot was driving a black SUV.
"Is this a Dolanger 'TAHOE'? Sorry, there are too many people driving this kind of car in the court." Officer Duncan Davis, who was still a little guilty, hesitated. Dolanger "TAHOE" is the short-axle version of Saaban, both are SUV brands under Chevrolet. Compared with Saaban's slightly larger body, the former is more flexible and more popular among individual users.
"Of course, after all, the red Mazda is more eye-catching." Alice kindly found a step for this admirer, and then zoomed in on the surveillance screen. The black Dolange " The license plate "TAHOE" was immediately visible.
"The license plate numbers of the court staff should all be registered, right?"
"Of course, of course."
With the prompts from Officer Duncan Davis, Alice found the registration system. I quickly found the name corresponding to the license plate, "Howard Rourke? This Who is it?"
"Judge Rourke! How is this possible? He is the judge of the criminal court, and his court is on the second floor." Sheriff Simone Long's eyes widened. He kept scratching his bare head, as if the CPU hidden inside was overwhelmed.
"Contact this judge immediately, now, immediately." Although Jubal's tone was a bit harsh, the Sheriff did not care about it and quickly walked aside and took out his mobile phone to make a call.
At this time, Jubal's own cell phone also rang. Seeing that it was Aubrey, he turned on the speakerphone directly, "It's me."
"Jubal, I have found Joanna O'Brien. According to her lawyer, she did not return to the court last night. She left the court yesterday afternoon and never went back.
But she was knocked down in the parking lot, and then. The pass disappeared, and according to her recollection, the person who hit her"
Jubal said the answer before he could finish, "Howard Rourke, right? We found out through surveillance? He took his car."
Then he sighed and looked at the people around him who looked as shocked as him, "The fugitive we want to arrest now is a judge, which is a bit unusual."
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Not only is it unusual, but it is not an exaggeration to say it is a hot potato. How powerful are the judges in this country? Just grab some data to illustrate the problem.
Don’t look at the cases that Jack and his team deal with. Juries are often summoned and a trial is required to convict the criminal. This is mainly because they are all criminal cases, and they are all important matters that are easy to argue with in criminal cases. case.
In fact, 97% of all convictions in federal courts and 94% of all convictions in state and district courts are the result of plea bargains. In other words, there is no need to convene a jury, and the attorneys from both sides and the judge meet together. Just discuss it with each other and that'll be it.
The most famous or typical case is the famous "children for money case" that happened in Pennsylvania. In order to obtain rewards from private prison operators, two judges in Luzerne County exchanged money for money within 5 years. More than 4,000 teenagers under the age of 14 were sent to prison in the name of "zero tolerance."
After the incident, because there were too many victims, these teenagers who committed petty thefts or even just contradicted the principal or played pranks were not retried, but stayed in prison for a full sentence ranging from 3 to 5 years.
Although the two judges sentenced them to 28 years and 17.5 years in prison respectively and a huge fine totaling US$206 million, almost all the victims failed to receive a penny in compensation afterwards.
Because these are individual fines, not state compensation. The fine is just a number. How could two judges take out 200 million in assets.
After the incident, the two judges involved in the case were quickly released from prison through plea bargains in other cases, leaving only a mess of chicken feathers uncollected.
Of course, the above is just to illustrate the enviable judicial system of the United States. After all, on the other side of the ocean, there are countless judges and lawyers who covet this advanced system, just like those who work all day long in the medical system. It’s the same as doctors who complain that they don’t make as much as their old American counterparts.
Fortunately, there is conclusive evidence that this judge killed a prosecutor, which is a dog-eat-dog situation within the system. Otherwise, the FBI would really want to go back to New York.
"What we have to deal with is a madman who is trying to create more corpses. The sooner we deal with it, the better." After making several calls in a row, Jubal's face softened slightly and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Are you sure?” Jack winked at him narrowly, “I don’t want us to be unable to even apply for an ordinary search warrant in the future.”
Who knows the system? What do the judges inside think? What if the other party insists on resisting when they go back to arrest them, and they accidentally kill the other party, causing the judges to feel sad?
(End of this chapter)