Abraham lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States and the publisher of the Emancipation Declaration, is the only president born in poverty in American history.
He was a lawyer before he was elected president. He is compassionate, dares to uphold justice, and is famous for his full reasoning, rich examples and strong logic in litigation activities.
Once, a young man named Armstrong was falsely accused of money murder. The young man was irrefutable and found guilty.
Armstrong's father was a good friend of Lincoln before his death. It can be said that Lincoln grew up watching Armstrong. He knows his old friend's son very well and has always been honest. It is impossible for him to do such a heinous thing. He volunteered to be Armstrong's defense lawyer, carefully consulted the case file and went to the scene to investigate, and soon grasped all the facts.
He concluded that Armstrong had been framed and wronged. He asked the court to reopen the case.
Because of Lincoln's reputation, the court agreed to reopen the trial.
Catch a snake and catch seven inches. Where should we start to reverse the case? After studying all the files, Lincoln has a well-thought-out plan: the key to this case lies in the witness Forcen. Because of his persistence, he clearly saw Armstrong shooting and killing people behind a haystack in the midnight moonlight of June +654381October +08. The possessed witness must have been bought by a false accuser. Lincoln decided to open the gap from this incident.
"Mr. Forcen" in court, Lincoln directly questioned the witness, "Do you dare to swear in public that it was Armstrong who saw clearly in the moonlight of 10+08, not others?"
"Yes, I swear! Forcen said.
"Where are you standing?" Lincoln asked.
"Behind the haystack."
"Where is Armstrong?"
"Under the big tree."
"Is that the big tree on the west side of the haystack?"
"yes."
"You are twenty or thirty meters apart. Can you recognize them?"
"I can see clearly, because the moonlight is very bright, shining on his face, and I can see his face clearly." Forcen said.
"Are you sure it's eleven o'clock?"
"To be sure. Because when I got home, I looked at the clock. It was a quarter past eleven. " Forcen is unequivocal.
Lincoln's stern eyes suddenly left Forcen and turned to the public, solemnly declaring: "Witness Forcen is a complete liar!" "
This unexpected conclusion immediately shocked everyone in the court, including the presiding judge, who felt very abrupt. Someone raised a question loudly: "A lawyer should present facts and be reasonable when he speaks. Based on what facts did you come to this conclusion? "
Lincoln replied, "The witness swore that he saw Armstrong's eyelids in the moonlight on the night of June+June+August, 654381October+August. But 10 18 should be the first quarter moon, and the moon has already set at eleven o'clock. Where is the moonlight? To take a hundred steps back, even if the moon is still in the western sky before sunset, the moonlight should shine from west to east. While the haystack covering Forcen is in the east, Armstrong is standing under the big tree in the west. If Armstrong's face is facing the haystack in the east, that is, his back is to the moon, it is impossible to shine on his face. If not facing the haystack, how can the witness see the defendant's face clearly from twenty or thirty meters away? No matter what the facts are, Forcen said,' The moonlight shines on your face', which is not a lie! "
The whole court was so quiet that you could almost hear the sound of breathing. Lincoln said here, after a commotion, thunderous applause suddenly broke out.
Lincoln exposed the witness's lies with irrefutable arguments, upheld the law and won the lawsuit. Armstrong was acquitted.
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