Along with the God of Law - Chapter 365



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365.

“I like kimbap too.”

“Ah. Yes!”

“But this is a convenience store lunch box. Is it okay to share it?”

“Of course! Sir, senior, no, manager!”

“When it’s just the two of us, you can just call me senior.”

“yes!”

Kang Hyun placed a convenience store lunch box in the middle, and Baek Hoon Sik poured kimbap on top of it.

Although the menu was limited, the two managed to focus on their meal.

“Wow. Who made this for you?”

“I, I did it.”

“You even make kimbap. I guess you’re interested in cooking. In fact, there aren’t many prosecutors who have cooking as a hobby.”

“Yes. I like tennis and things like that….”

“Do you play tennis?”

“Senior, I’m not good at sports.”

Baek Hoon-sik also felt a little more comfortable with Kang Hyun’s everyday conversation that came naturally.

“Ah. Everyone has different talents. It’s okay. Haneul likes cooking.”

“Yes. Yes? If it’s heaven?”

“Ah. Yes. I like cooking, so I buy a lot of ingredients and often cook for myself, whether it’s gourmet food, Western food, or Korean food.”

He, Baek Hoon-sik coughed at the sound. Yoon Ha-neul, who was just showing off her sparkling face as a beverage commercial model on TV. Kang Hyun, who is dating her.

‘It’s really true… .’

Kang Hyun cautiously spoke to the admiring Baek Hoon Sik.

“Hey, you said your original home was ‘Daldongnae’?”

“Oh! How did you know that? I have a room in Noryangjin right now.”

The reason why Kang Hyun treated Baek Hoon-sik a little specially and paid attention to him.

When I first took up the position of the 5th division chief, I carefully looked through the personnel record cards that were handed to me, but then stopped when I saw Baek Hoon-sik.

“Life there must have been difficult.”

“Oh, no. There are a lot of shantytowns, but I lived in a relatively decent house downstairs. At the time, there was a lot of talk about redevelopment, so I wondered if I should go somewhere else, but now it’s more like a memory…”

Baek Hoon-sik suddenly stopped using his chopsticks as if he was lost in thought. Kang Hyun caught him and whispered softly.

“Me too.”

“yes?”

“No. First of all, there’s something I want to tell Prosecutor Baek Hoon-sik.”

“also.”

He didn’t just show up to eat, Baek Hoon-sik’s expression changed and he politely put his spoon back down as if he had lost his appetite.

Kang Hyun looked at that and said, “Oh my,” and put the spoon and chopsticks in his hands again, then slowly and concisely explained the purpose.

“There is one unusual case. But, I think it fits Prosecutor Baek Hoon-sik perfectly.”

“Yes? Is there something like that in the case too?”

“why?”

“I have never heard anyone say that any event suits me.”

“Haha. Each inspector has their own style, and there are certain things that suit them well. I’ll help you, so why don’t you give it a try?”

“Oh, yes! If you just tell me to do it, I will do my best so that I don’t become a burden to the manager’s judgment.”

“Good. Then come to my room later.”

After saying those words, Kang Hyun stood up.

After finishing his meal quickly, Baek Hoon-sik was busy making a pledge to himself on one side of the break room.

“This time, I will make sure that Kang Hyun-sunbae never frowns. I will make sure that the other seniors never look down on me. Let’s do well, let’s do well!”

Baek Hoon-sik, who came to see Kang Hyun, continued to do so as if by magic until Kang Hyun’s room opened.

“Let’s do well, let’s do well!”

Bam!

“Manager, this is Baek Hoon-sik!”

“You came quickly! This is the case! The distribution work is finished.”

“Thank you… Huh?”

Baek Hoon-sik doesn’t have many case numbers memorized.

Not only do I not have the bad habit of remembering the details of a case just by the case number, I also do not have the ability to do so.

However, Baek Hoon-sik opened his mouth wide after seeing the case records that Kang Hyeon had handed over.

The Gohap 350 incident.

“No, this is Gohap 350.”

“that’s right.”

“I told you this is Gohap 350?”

“That seems to fit Prosecutor Baek Hoon-sik perfectly.”

Is that guy swearing?

Baek Hoon-sik was flustered and looked back and forth between the incident record, Kang Hyun, and his own palm several times.

Because I was wondering if I should hit my own cheek with the palm of my hand.

Case No. 350, Murder and Road Traffic Act Violation.

This was a strange case of ‘difficulty level S’ or higher, and the body of the deceased has not been found to this day.

* * *

In front of the Central District Court.

“What are you curious about?”

“The defendant worked as a ‘spare driver’ in the Yongin area 10 years ago. Sister, what is a spare driver?”

“It’s called a heavy equipment day laborer. Don’t you know that?”

While enduring the advice Kwon Song-i gave him, Baek Hoon-sik was diligently analyzing the impending incident.

He was crouching in front of the courtroom, wearing reading glasses that didn’t suit him and a blue thimble in each hand.

Because the number of cases is so large and they are so busy, trial prosecutors often encounter cases like this.

Even this case is the first trial of the appeal. There is nothing special to fight about, just the defendant’s confession and the prosecutor’s statement of all the facts of the indictment. Then, on the next trial date, prepare to go to war with your weapon in hand.

Today, we just need to look at the defendant’s face and start preparing for the next one.

“Please focus for a moment.”

While Baek Hoon-sik was busy reviewing the lightning strike records, Kwon Song-i waited for him, crossing her arms as if it was annoying.

“But, um, it seems like it went well. At the time, the victim and I set up a ‘spare office’. So this was a ‘makeshift office’?”

“I heard that you started a company that supplies engineers to construction sites.”

“aha.”

“Give it to me.”

Feeling frustrated, Kwon Song-i snatched the records away. Then, she started looking through them.

“The victim and the defendant decided to set up a so-called ‘spare office’ as a partnership, right? But the defendant embezzled the money?”

“Yes. It’s a scam.”

“You have to consider the will and ability to pay back. But that’s not the issue, so let’s leave it out. The issue is the claim that ‘the victim threatened to sue, and the defendant, distracted by that, killed the victim and buried her somewhere.’”

“Since that hasn’t been proven, the case is just being dragged on as murder charges?”

“Yeah. The body wasn’t found.”

Okay.

Kwon Song-i said as she handed him the thick case file again.

“So what should you do next?”

“Record review.”

“No? No!”

“Don’t you usually just sit and review records all day?”

“Oh! We have to find the evidence ourselves. The circumstances are all there, and the defendant even admitted to the murder at first. Let’s go to the scene. The place where the crime is presumed to have occurred. Then, if there’s nothing after looking around the scene, investigate his past activities. Track his departure history, remittance history, etc. and follow him.”

“Sister, you’ve changed a lot.”

“what?”

“Did senior Kang Hyun make this? Anyway, thank you.”

“You, buy me food.”

“Okay. Let’s go in.”

Baek Hoon-sik entered the courtroom after having a brief conversation with Kwon Song-i, who had come to cheer him on.

It feels like the pot is opening up and the surroundings are getting ventilated.

It was his second trial, but he felt reassured. Kang Hyun was sitting in the audience waiting for him.

‘Let’s do our best.’

Kang Hyun was seen leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed. Baek Hoon-sik sat at the prosecutor’s table with a nervous expression.

As Baek Hoon-sik sat down on his chair and waited for a moment, the judges of the collegiate panel began to come in.

“Everyone, please stand up.”

Everyone stood up from their seats at the police officer’s loud voice and then sat down following the judges.

“In the case of Gohap 350, the appeal trial will begin. Defendant Ahn Il-gyun. Are you here?”

“Here it is.”

The first impression of defendant Ahn Il-gyun, who had to fight Baek Hoon-sik, was very bad.

He glared at Baek Hoon-sik with a fierce expression and a rather confident expression despite the fact that the crime was murder. It seemed as if he was in a very unpleasant mood but could do nothing about it.

Of course, when you look at the judge, you have good eyes.

‘Is that a silent threat? Scary.’

Baek Hoon-sik swallowed hard, but tried to keep a calm expression throughout the interrogation.

This is the first time something like this has happened to Baek Hoon-sik.

In a high-difficulty murder case, the defendant is not very docile either.

Being disobedient meant that there would be no statement of intent to confess and that he would make the trial difficult by adding clever words until the very end.

‘But I guess nothing will happen.’

After a brief confession, it was Baek Hoon-sik’s turn to speak about the facts of the case.

“This is Prosecutor Baek Hoon-sik.”

Baek Hoon-sik stood up from his seat with a rather calm expression, read the prepared facts of the case, and tried to organize the issues and make a request for sentencing.

But then suddenly someone jumped up from the seat opposite him, and Baek Hoon-sik stared blankly straight ahead.

“Not only was I denied free access to a lawyer by the police, I was also subjected to harsh treatment. I was verbally abused and even assaulted! Everything I have said so far is false!”

The defendant suddenly raised an objection. And it just so happened to be before Baek Hoon-sik’s statement.

The public defender was surprised, but Baek Hoon-sik was more embarrassed.

‘Oh, why, is it only like this when I do it?’

He began to look through the materials, looking around with a puzzled expression.

‘Procedural defects, how to deal with claims of forced statements of life and death… Ah, there’s nothing!’

Baek Hoon-sik instinctively felt that a situation was approaching where he would have to close his eyes and bow his head again.

Both trials that Kang Hyun attended were like this. He even thought that he had to prepare hard for this case so as not to betray his trust.

He, who is weak at improvising, has to improvise when he hasn’t even prepared for the first date of the first trial!

“I, I, the prosecution side… .”

He tried to say something, but all he could say in response to the other person’s claim was, “I’ll check.”

‘I’m screwed.’

This isn’t a bank, and I was too proud to ask to check. But there’s nothing I can do.

“That, that, check….”

It was the moment when Baek Hoon-sik admitted defeat and was about to speak.

‘if?’

As if there was salvation, instinctively and with a desperate heart, Baek Hoon-sik turned his head towards Kang Hyeon in the audience.

Actually, there’s nothing he can do in this situation… but what if it’s Kang Hyun?

‘uh?’

Kang Hyun was pointing at something with a big smile on his face.

‘No, what about that guy?’

Baek Hoon-sik, who turned his gaze in the direction he was pointing, couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration. Sitting there was the police officer who had directly investigated the defendant, Ahn Il-gyun.

‘Have you prepared in advance for this kind of situation?’

It is not too late to express admiration later. Baek Hoon-sik, who had figured out Kang Hyun’s intentions, hurried.

“Since the defendant continues to assert procedural defects and claims of coercion during the investigation, in order to prevent disruption of the flow of the trial, could you allow the police officer in charge during the first investigation to be admitted as a witness?”

“Prosecutor, are you saying that the police officer who investigated the defendant is here?”

“…yes.”

Baek Hoon-sik was surprised when his mouth moved on its own. When he looked at Kang Hyun, he saw him nodding happily.

‘You predicted this and prepared everything for it?’

Kang Hyun had called the guard in advance in case the guy made a procedural mistake. I could feel an aura from him.

At that moment, the police entered the courtroom beyond the gallery, and Baek Hoon-sik stood in front of him, who had just finished taking the witness oath, holding nothing in his hand, and asked him questions.

“Is it true that the defendant just claimed that there was an act of cruelty?”

“That’s false. There was no investigation into the defendant or any procedural undue coercion.”

Baek Hoon-sik looked at Ahn Il-gyun with a sense of relief, enjoying the feeling as if he had become Kang Hyeon.

He, who tried to delay the trial even a little, just lowered his head as if he was angry. I trusted Kang Hyun, but the trial started to go wrong.

‘I have a god of law, that’s it.’