Kapitel 19: Court Statements in the Dining Room
"Trust me Martin, it's not going to work!"
In the Florence restaurant on the south side of First Avenue, Rachel looked around, and Fudi approached the boss who was looking at the phone.
"You know, blackmailing big companies by creating scandals is the trick of those rubbish lawyers who graduated from third-rate law schools, because they are destined to never become legal advisers to big companies for a lifetime!"
"You are different. You are a Harvard Juris Doctor and a senior lawyer at Pearson Hardeman. You are born to stand on the side of capital. There is no need to fight against an international giant like BMW for a madman who killed her boyfriend with a car. superior!"
"Jessica won't let you do that!"
Martin shifted his gaze from the phone to Rachel's teeth-gritting pretty face, and then couldn't help but look down.
Rachel was wearing a Prada senior professional shirt, with the open collar revealing the bottomless trench, which was both seductive and mysterious.
As expected of Prada, this is very high-level sexy!
Rachel noticed that her boss's eyes were wrong, she lowered her head and hurriedly sat up, her brown mixed-race skin well concealed the redness on her cheeks.
Martin put down his phone and shook his head: "When did I say I was going to meet BMW?"
"Women's abnormal hormone secretion levels under stress lead to out-of-control physiological behavior?" Rachel reminded: "In addition to BMW's unstable electronic gear control system, isn't this the perfect excuse for Amanda? "
"BMW's new system is very stable." Martin shook his head: "What is unstable is the incompatibility of humans when technology is updated."
Rachel blinked her eyes like autumn water in confusion: "Why do some new words that you have never heard of before always pop out of your mouth? It sounds like it makes sense?"
"It's just a rearrangement of nouns. Many successful masters rely on this trick to fool others into buying their books."
Martin shook his head indifferently, took out his BlackBerry and iPhone and put them on the table: "Allow me to use these two phones as an example."
Rachel tilted her head, meaning "Please start your show!"
Martin smiled and picked up the BlackBerry full-keyboard phone on the left.
"I've been using a BlackBerry since college, and I've never switched to another brand. I'm skilled enough to blindly send emails and text messages while driving without making any mistakes."
I saw Martin put the phone aside and tap his thumb on the keyboard flexibly.
After a while, Rachel's phone lights up with a new text message.
"Dear Rachel, I'm amazed that you can so proficiently utter the phrase 'uncontrolled physiological behavior caused by abnormal hormone secretion levels in women under stress', it shows that you take your work very seriously, as you My boss, I would recommend Jessica to give you a raise so that you can easily maintain a decent living after paying off your massive monthly bills..."
Nearly three hundred words, including punctuation and specific capitalization, are not bad at all.
Rachel has been rolling her eyes more and more lately: "I thought you'd take this opportunity to flirt with me."
"As a lawyer, I wouldn't be foolish enough to keep evidence of sexual harassment on my phone."
Martin shrugged, put down his BlackBerry and picked up his iPhone.
"This is the iPhone you gave me two days ago. It's very powerful and its design thinking is very advanced. It's like a future mobile phone in a sci-fi movie..."
"But I can no longer reply to your text messages while driving, because the iphone cancels the physical buttons, and I can't get haptic feedback..."
"That's a little bit of incompatibility when technology is updated."
Martin also took the iphone and clicked on the side, and then took it back and looked at the calendar for 2021...
"This is where the problem lies!"
Martin spreads his hands: "It's like BMW's new electronic gear control system, it's very complete, it's very technical, but we always need some time to master it proficiently."
"It must be noted that the traditional automatic transmission model has a characteristic, that is, in a static state, whether it is forward or reverse, the gear lever must be pulled backward; while the BMW X5 is different, if you want to go backward in a static state, you must go forward. Push the lever."
"This error doesn't matter in normal times, because it's just a matter of letting go of the brakes and you can rely on instinct to feel that something is wrong. But in an emergency, it's deadly, because then our response is usually based on muscle memory formed by long-term training, and Not the rational thinking of the brain."
"Amanda got her driver's license at the age of 16 and drove a traditional automatic model for four and a half years, and a BMW X5 for half a year. That is to say, her muscle memory for reverse gear is actually still maintained at the back of a traditional automatic model."
"Imagine your boyfriend has a perverted desire for control. You can't stand his nervousness anymore. You want to drive away, but see your boyfriend standing in front of the car making a big noise. Would you be very nervous?"
"By the same token, Amanda must have been very nervous and panicked, so she instinctively pulled the lever back and then stepped on the gas, which led to this tragedy."
"We have no way of knowing whether she was pulling the lever backwards to kill her boyfriend, or to back away from him, because this action doesn't have the same meaning on a conventional car and a BMW X5."
"That is to say, Amanda's intention to drive to kill her boyfriend is not clear. According to the legal principles of unity of subjectivity and objectivity and no suspicion of guilt, the charge of second-degree murder is not established!"
"Beautiful juror lady, above!"
After saying this long paragraph, Martin couldn't help but moisten his throat with the glass of wine, then raised his eyebrows at Amanda who was shocked, and returned to the frivolous appearance in front of her in the past.
It took Amanda a long time to react, and she kept shaking her head while applauding: "bravo (wonderful)! If I were a juror, I would definitely vote for rejection!"
At this moment, the waiter of the restaurant brought the dishes ordered by the two of them.
Martin ordered the classic Italian Bolognese Lasagna, which is usually a layer of a pâté and a layer of bolognese.
However, this restaurant did not make lasagna according to the most traditional method, but added a layer of sea breeze vegetable salad to the two layers of meat sauce, which made the originally salty and greasy meat sauce more fragrant and refreshing, and the layering was richer. .
As soon as he took a bite, Martin couldn't help but praise him again and again, but he saw Rachel on the opposite side with a knife in her left hand and her right hand, looking at him inexplicably.
"Did you take me as your main dish?" Martin stretched out his hand and shook it in front of her in a funny way: "It doesn't matter, will I go to your house or mine? You know, it may not be particularly convenient for me to share a room with friends. .Actually, the hotel contracted by the firm is not bad, but there is a risk of encountering Jessica..."
Rachel suddenly burst out laughing: "Martin, you look so shameless like Tony Stark!"
"Your figure is much sexier than Little Pepper..."
When it comes to bickering, who can be more professional than a lawyer!
The romantic candlelight dinner is finally back to the atmosphere it deserves.
Rachel's fork stirred the pasta in the bowl, her charming eyes brightened by the candlelight: "Martin, why are you so special?"
"Because I'm from the future." Martin said a lie that wasn't a lie: "Why did you suddenly ask such a question?"
Rachel shook her head inexplicably. "Every time I chat with you, I can always see a different side of you. You make me feel...complicated."
"Last time I bought a car, I felt like a kid who likes cartoons."
"At the reception of the mutual aid club, you showed me your vision, kindness, and self-confidence!"
"And tonight, let me really see your professionalism as a lawyer..."
Rachel paused, then asked softly, "Martin, which side is the real you?"
"Curiosity about men is often the harbinger of women falling in love."
Martin put down his knife and fork, wiped his mouth with a napkin, took a sip of red wine, and looked Rachel in the eye: "Woman, you are in danger now!"
Rachel didn't speak, tacitly acknowledging the fact that she had a good impression of him.
Martin looked at the light with a red wine glass, and pointedly said: "Cabernet Sauvignon from Chateau Patriy has always been my first choice because it has distinct layers and a sweet fruity fragrance, which is very suitable for carnivores like me. …"
"Are you reminding me of the tradition that you only go to bed and don't fall in love?" Tonight's Rachel was bold: "Or am I your Cabernet Sauvignon?"
"Both." Martin was a little surprised: "You even know my principles?"
"No love, no sex with friends' sisters, no sex with colleagues and clients..."
Rachel's eyes became a little sly: "As I said, law firms never have secrets."
Martin put down his glass and asked with a wry smile, "How much did Priya tell you about me?"
Only then did Rachel realize that she had sold the informant, and immediately buried herself in eating, never answering any questions from Martin again.
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