I Became a Law School Genius – 115



I Became a Genius Law School Student Episode 115

A course that starts from the official residence and takes a large circle around the entire court.

As I moved my body and sweated I felt energized.

The feeling of the cool morning air cooling off your sweat is quite pleasant.

‘No what.’

While I was running like that I saw someone and stopped.

“Whoa.”

A man blowing out cigarette smoke against the backdrop of darkness.

It was clearly Professor Yong-Hwan Jang.

“…Professor Jang Yong-hwan?”

It was difficult to avoid it by pretending not to see it along the route. Without any choice I approached him and said hello.

“You meet an unexpected face.”

“This is what I tell you. “What are you doing here?”

“I’m on my way out after meeting an old acquaintance.”

Yongwan Jang pointed to the main building with a gesture of his chin. The lights were still brightly on in the judge’s office on the fifth floor.

It was indeed a court notorious for overtime. The judges are probably still working inside reviewing the backlog of documents.

Maybe Bang Seung-il is also there.

‘He’s an acquaintance.’

Jang Yong-hwan is a person who has been involved in the prosecution for a long time. It wasn’t unusual to know someone at the court.

However it was necessary to remember that this was a matter that required coming to the court in person and having a conversation at this late hour.

“I saw the contest.”

“yes?”

“You studied criminal law properly.”

It was a sudden change of topic.

“Crimes that are not acknowledged to be identical to the facts of the crime stated in the indictment cannot be contested at the relevant trial.”

If the crime is somewhat similar all you have to do is change the charges listed in the indictment. This is the case for example in cases of theft and stolen property.

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The two crimes are very similar in that they are property crimes involving illegal acquisition of goods and in legal terms they are expressed as ‘the same social facts.’

In this case the prosecutor can request a change to the indictment and the judge accepts it thereby convicting the person of guilt.

On the other hand in this case the defendant’s actual crime was completely different from the crime charged.

Therefore it is impossible to deal with it by changing the indictment and a new indictment must be filed. This was the reason why there was no choice but to declare him not guilty.

It was the only move that could reveal the truth and still result in a victory from the defense attorney’s perspective.

“It’s an idea that’s hard to come up with unless you’ve studied prosecution and res judicata. Usually first-year students who participate in competitions barely skim the investigation and evidence parts…”

Jang Yong-Hwan asked as if joking.

“Did you throw away the good deeds of the second semester and just dig up a prison cell?”

“It can’t be. “I will show you that this is not the case with my grades next semester.”

“I’m looking forward to it.”

Jang Yong-hwan laughed silently for a moment but soon the smile disappeared and a serious expression appeared on his face. The mouth that was chewing on the cigarette was twisted with force.

“…You were an aspiring prosecutor.”

“yes.”

“Is that goal still the same?”

‘What kind of question is this again?’

“The prosecution… may not be as ‘cool’ an organization as you dream.”

Jang Yong-hwan exhaled the smoke from his cigarette.

“There may come a moment when you have to pretend not to know the truth that is right in front of your eyes.”

The voice was full of regret.

“The organization claims to be one prosecutor and calls out that we are one but when you look at it it is full of internal enemies who will grab your ankles and pull you down at any time.”

“….”

“They will bite you at the slightest hint.”

No matter how capable and upright you are the more so it is.

The smoke that was spit out was mixed with words that were even more dull and murky than the smoke itself.

‘Is this an experience?’

Jang Yong-hwan did not quit the prosecution voluntarily. He took responsibility for an incident and took off his judicial uniform.

It was not only a setting about the past but also a problem very closely related to the development of the latter half of the original work.

“But are you still planning to become a prosecutor?”

The elite of the elite.

The eyes of a man who had achieved almost everything a prosecutor could achieve turned to me. The eyes looked both testing and concerned.

I answered Jang Yong-Hwan’s question with a question.

“How are you feeling Professor?”

“…!”

“Was your past life as a prosecutor something you could be proud of?”

You will have experienced and known it all. There is no one who understands the light and darkness of the prosecution organization as thoroughly as Jang Yong-hwan.

I was asking what feelings were left at the end.

“…okay.”

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And the living myth of the prosecution answered that way. I returned those words to Jang Yong-Hwan as is.

“My answer is the same.”

I may be an idealist but I am by no means a dreamer. I know very well that the prosecution is not an organization made up of people who only pursue justice.

‘So what.’

The world is inherently absurd. Wherever you go things that don’t make sense are everywhere.

But at least the prosecution is a place that can give me the power to change that.

Wouldn’t that be enough?

“…ha ha ha. “I see.”

After a moment of silence Jang Yong-hwan burst into laughter.

“After the competition is over come to my lab.”

“yes?”

“I have one task for you.”

* * *

“You look tired.”

The road to the final stage. Hanseol handed me a smartphone with selfie mode turned on. The image of me reflected on the screen showed that my dark circles had diminished significantly.

“You look like Lee Haru.”

“Why am I synonymous with dark circles?”

“It’s okay Haru is still cute.”

My self-deprecating lines make Lee Ha-ru cry and Hanseol calms down. Hanseol asked after the frequent flow had passed.

“You told us not to be too hard on ourselves. “Did you sleep well?”

“I don’t know.”

I slept for roughly four hours. It’s because I had a lot to think about so I couldn’t sleep after that.

‘What is Jang Yong-hwan trying to entrust to me?’

At this point I had no idea what he was asking me to do.

As a heavy reader of the original if it’s something I don’t know it’s likely not a big deal but it bothered me that Jang Yong-hwan’s mood was strange when he spoke.

‘Maybe… no. There’s no need to come to a conclusion now.’

For now start with what is right in front of you.

Just like it always has been.

“Well I’m fine. “More than that.”

I changed the topic and asked Hanseol.

“Are you mentally ready?”

It’s not just in the sense that it’s ahead of the finals. In her case today she must end her long-standing conflict with her mother Jang Hwa-eun.

Since I was the one who pushed for that to happen I guess I have an obligation to watch over him until the end.

“…huh.”

“Is that so?”

“Because it has to be done sometime.”

Lee Ha-ru held Han Seol’s hand tightly without saying a word.

I can’t tell you how fortunate I am to have a colleague I can rely on. I clapped my hands as if to brighten the slightly depressed atmosphere.

“ruler. “Then let’s go.”

4th floor West Building Seoul District Court.

It’s a place I’ve already been to several times. But now that I thought it was really the final game there was a different tension than usual even in the same space.

“Did you say today’s contest is a criminal court?”

“okay. “Because it is the finals there will be a lot of spectators.”

It’s not that it wasn’t the hallways were already crowded with people from all over.

However we do not enter right away. As I moved to the separate waiting room I saw the Yonhee University Law School team coming from afar on the other side.

I vaguely knew the face because I had watched the contest video several times.

“That person is Yang Min-jae. Next to him is Hong Yu-bin. Hwang Seung-su… hasn’t arrived yet.”

However it seemed that Hwang Seung-su had not arrived yet. There were less than 20 minutes left until the start of the finals so it was a strange thing.

The Yonhee University team members were also staring at the entrance with anxious expressions as if it had not been agreed upon.

“When is this bastard coming!”

“calm down. Is it okay to be late? “I’ve been singing since yesterday because I’m so excited for the finals.”

“That’s why it’s more of a problem. If it were him he would say ‘Wahaha I’m sorry! I was so excited that I stayed up all night solving some problems to calm down!’ “It’s not strange if he shows up in the afternoon saying something like this.”

“…Something seems so plausible that it’s suddenly scary.”

As if they had finally run out of patience they began to moan and hold their heads together. When I saw that a bitter smile came out of my mouth.

‘It’s been a lot of hard work.’

Hwang Seung-soo as seen in the original work and understood through the video was in a word a maniac who was crazy about law.

There is a truly diverse group of people among law students. Some pursue wealth or fame some follow this path out of greed for power and some dream of justice and ideals.

Of course the most common are those who threw themselves into life because this was the only way to make a living.

Surprisingly the rarest type among these people are people who just love law and find it so interesting that they don’t know what to do about it.

The life of a law student is already one where one has to spend all day with one’s nose buried in an exam book.

But these crazy law lovers are not satisfied with that.

As a hobby I read legal newspapers post links to news articles in group chat rooms and discuss what the issues in these cases will be.

Even jokes made to kill time use legal concepts.

Seungsu Hwang was just that kind of person.

“In other words he is a person like you.”

“No I’m not that crazy.”

“Master you read the legal newspaper in the morning right?”

“That’s just a quick read to wake up my brain before I start studying in earnest.”

When I protested against Lee Ha-ru’s point Hanseol helped me.

“The other day an article was posted on our chat room and I was outraged as to why this was not a violation of the Act on Sexual Harassment (*Act on the Punishment of Violent Acts etc.) but a simple injury.”

“You’re pissed. Anyone who studies law will sympathize….”

“You also make jokes about the law. “Here’s the proof.”

Lee Haru held the smartphone screen in front of her eyes.

– July 24th. It’s already a duplicate.

– Gatherum ㄹㅇ.

– Here’s a quiz. Today is not a day to file a lawsuit. Why?

– I don’t know. Why?

– Because it is a duplicate complaint. Article 259 (Prohibition of filing duplicate lawsuits) A party may not file a lawsuit again in a case pending in court. Fuhaha.

-….

– You don’t know this? Didn’t you study civil law properly?

– Blocked.

“….”

I was running out of words to refute so I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut. The two people burst out laughing when they saw me like that and at the same time the door burst open.

“ha ha ha. Sorry everyone!”

Seungsu Hwang shouted like that and immediately ran to his teammates and knelt down.

“But listen. “As I was coming a very interesting idea occurred to me!”

“…What is it? “Let’s hear it.”

“If the person who created the security for transfer disposes of the collateral it only constitutes a breach of trust right? However now if transfer collateral is set up and possession is transferred to the secured creditor the crime of obstruction of the exercise of rights is also charged… Argh! “Why are you hitting me?”

“Is this guy any good?”

‘I’m on the same level as that?’

The feeling I didn’t want to admit was like a chimney.

“Look over there. The Korean University team had already come in with three people. “We couldn’t even contact the team leader about where he was and what he was doing until right before the contest huh?”

“Oh. I see. “You’re all there!”

Hwang Seung-soo who was being scolded by his teammates suddenly stood up. Then he walked straight towards me with a bright smile on his face.

“I wanted to meet you Park Yu-seung!”

Seungsu Hwang shouted as he offered to shake my hand.

“I knew it right away the moment I saw the competition video! “Park Yoo-seung is a ‘real’ person like me!”

“….”

Somehow I felt like I knew what kind of expressions my teammates were making behind the scenes.