I Became a Law School Genius – 57



I Became a Genius Law School Student Episode 57

“The issue was well addressed.”

In an instant everyone’s attention is focused on him.

It was Goo Min-hwan who rarely spoke out loud.

That low heavy voice had the power to grab your ears.

‘Are you planning on breaking the flow?’

“…The evidence investigation will first deal with the evidence requested by the prosecution. I’m sure someone as senior as you wouldn’t say that he doesn’t know legal procedures right?”

“That doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to speak.”

Gu Min-hwan responded without losing his composure.

“anyway.”

He picked up a stack of documents.

“If we were to say the evidence to be presented it would be around 23p or 64p. “Isn’t it?”

“…!”

As he said I couldn’t help but be shocked.

Page 23 is a testimony about the attitude of deceased A while he was alive and page 64 is a report containing the opinions of the doctor in charge.

Both are evidence that can be used to show that this case does not meet the standards of precedent.

It was truly not an easy opponent.

Gu Min-hwan already knew what card I was going to show him.

‘But then it’s even more strange.’

If you’ve seen that you can’t help but notice that there’s a problem in claiming that the discontinuation of life-sustaining treatment in this case was legal.

Still I couldn’t figure out why he insisted on being innocent.

“Let’s look at page 23 first.”

Either way Gu Min-hwan started reviewing the evidence on his own.

“What kind of person was A?”

He turned the pages with rough hands.

“A was a very simple person.”

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I do not have any grand ideas or will to believe. A junk that just lives by instinct.

then.

“It is extremely unlikely that such a one-dimensional person would make the decision to give up maintaining his or her own life.”

Gu Minhwan looked straight at me.

“Isn’t that what the prosecutor wants to claim?”

“What if I say so?”

“Reading people’s minds is not that simple.”

Koo Min-hwan turned his head towards the judge’s seat.

“We request the screening of video recording No. 5 as evidence against us.”

“…permitted.”

‘Recorded video number 5?’

The teaching assistant who was waiting operated the remote control and unfolded the screen on one side of the moot court.

A video as evidence is projected on top of it.

“This is…”

“This is a video of Mang A’s accident.”

A in the video was an old man with a shabby appearance.

He was walking staggeringly drunk.

Since this is not an actual incident it is probably a video made by hiring professional re-enactors.

But even knowing this it was quite realistic acting.

– Sigh… What a bitch.

A sighed deeply.

– It’s better than living in such a miserable way!

The next moment A lost his footing and stumbled forward a few steps due to the wind.

There was a very solid-looking concrete pillar erected in that direction.

‘Did he fall and hit the pillar like this?’

Since the circumstances of the accident could be confirmed in documents there was no need to check the video.

It is a legal argument competition where preparation time is already tight.

It is impossible to look at everything and it was necessary to make choices according to one’s own standards.

However I felt like I could guess why Gu Min-hwan asked to play this video.

‘Were you trying to show that you have no regrets in life?’

A was a retired person who had exhausted his usefulness in this society and was an old man who did not have a good relationship with his family.

No one is looking for him and no one wants him.

As A’s daughter-in-law that is Kim Gap-dong’s wife said he was a person who could not die.

However this too was only something that could be ascertained from documents.

Moreover just because A had no regrets about life it could not be assumed that he had the will to actively accept death or that he had the determination to do so.

So then what are those self-confident sparkling eyes of Minhwan Koo?

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That was the moment when such a thought crossed my mind.

“…uh?”

– Ha ha!

In the video A falls forward as if he were about to fall but regains his balance a long way in front of the concrete pillar.

For a very moment he stopped in place.

– flaw….

Then he bursts into laughter and as if he has made up his mind he rushes towards the pillar and hits his head.

– Boom!

The video ended with a dull impact sound.

“What…”

Koo Minhwan explained to me who was speechless.

“A did not simply lose his footing and hit the pillar.”

he added.

“I was tempted to quit my own life.”

“…!”

The spectators watching also began to get excited.

“Oh it was actually a suicide attempt!”

“It’s proof that you decided to kill yourself. “If you choose death from an unbearable life wouldn’t you be more likely to refuse to live without hope by relying on life-sustaining treatment?”

This flow is dangerous. I quickly got up from my seat.

“You can’t necessarily be that certain.”

I pointed to the screen.

“A was drunk at the time of the accident. “It is highly likely that it was simply a temporary and emotional impulse rather than a result of serious reflection and skepticism about life.”

23p So I opened the page that contained the testimony given by Kim Gap-dong’s wife.

“From the beginning Mang A was an impulsive person. Especially when I was drunk I couldn’t control myself at all such as verbally abusing and beating my family. “The actions of such a person while intoxicated are….”

“So it might actually be closest to my true intentions.”

Gu Minhwan accepted.

“A is a person who lived with words to the effect of ‘what should I do with my life anymore?’ “Rather than saying that alcohol created impulses that didn’t exist wouldn’t it be more natural to think of it as supporting an old man who was always thinking but not taking action?”

Eyes and gazes collided in the air.

Naturally arguments began to go back and forth in the audience.

‘Did you prevent it from being swept away unilaterally?’

Even if a person has once tried to die it cannot be certain that he or she will necessarily want to discontinue life-sustaining treatment.

It may be a temporary impulse and if it is not based on firm beliefs or values thoughts can change at any time.

Therefore the video just now could not be said to be evidence that would reveal with 100% certainty the intentions of patient A.

‘but….’

Only the image of the video remained strong. To the audience and to me.

Of course to Jang Yong-hwan at the judge’s bench who is watching all of this.

‘I’m making a fuss by making it useless and high quality.’

The empty voice of an old man who stood still and laughed helplessly.

A dry face as if all emotions had been volatilized.

The momentum of jumping towards the pillar.

It was clear that the scales holding the Statue of Justice were tilted a little more in that direction.

“stop.”

At that time Jang Yong-hwan stood up.

“We will take a 15-minute recess. “So that both sides can get enough rest and regroup.”

* * *

“It was my mistake.”

A brief break time. After returning to the waiting room with my teammates I coolly acknowledged it.

“I missed that video because I was trying to select evidence to examine within a limited time.”

“I can’t help it. Instead wouldn’t we have gained some points in terms of A’s recovery potential?”

It was just as Hanseol said.

According to precedent both requirements must be met for discontinuation of life-sustaining treatment to be legal.

It must be assumed that the patient will wish to discontinue treatment and there must be no possibility of recovery of the patient’s condition.

We pushed forward with the argument that it is difficult to say that there is no possibility of recovery.

According to the doctors’ analysis of A’s medical treatment results A’s chances of recovery were excessively high compared to the figures recognized by precedent.

Even if you think about it with common sense it is difficult to say that it is a level where recovery is absolutely impossible.

Koo Min-hwan was unable to come up with any significant rebuttal to this point. I don’t know if I did it or not.

“If even one of the requirements is denied it is no longer legal. “Then aren’t we in a more advantageous situation?”

Ultimately it is difficult to view the discontinuation of life-sustaining treatment in this case as legitimate euthanasia.

First assuming that it was an illegal act that is murder the guilt of Kim Gap-dong and Lee Eul-nam would be discussed again.

“Well that’s true.”

I nodded.

“I got hit hard but I handled it pretty well.”

but.

“…that’s exactly the problem.”

“huh?”

“What happened just now made it clear. Koo Min-hwan is a much more difficult opponent than I thought.”

In this case three people divided the data and records and analyzed them.

One is even a memorization genius like the original public figure and the other is running an AI program that is no different from a cheat in terms of document processing speed.

Nevertheless due to lack of time I had no choice but to select the evidence I needed to see.

During this process the video in question was missed.

On the other hand what about Gu Min-hwan?

“It’s a one-man team there.”

He does not depend on his colleagues.

I reviewed all the data and evidence on my own designed the argument completed it in writing and submitted it.

This means that even in the midst of this there was enough space to open even evidence containing the contents already in the documents.

The speed of the work made me question whether this was even physically possible.

“There is no way that someone with that level of skill would not know that this alone cannot lead to a conclusion that euthanasia is legal.”

Clearly A’s video was meaningful evidence.

Gu Minhwan probably earned quite a bit of points for finding and pointing this out.

But that was all.

In the end there was a high possibility that this case would be recognized as murder and we had to continue our fight on this premise.

That is to say.

“…Goo Minhwan’s real aim lies elsewhere.”

“It’s somewhere else?”

“okay. But I don’t know what it is yet.”

The logic to make Kim Gap-dong the main criminal of murder and punish Lee Eul-nam as an accessory has already been completed.

Of course opposing arguments and supporting evidence were also checked.

However they were all at a level that could be easily refuted.

I did not think that Koo Min-hwan would have made the bold move of claiming innocence based on something like that.

There was no way it would have come out like this without finding at least some ingenious secret plan.

“What is it? What Goo Minhwan has in mind is….”

I stared at the materials I brought with me and thought about it.

My head was pounding perhaps because I had been working on a somewhat unreasonable schedule recently.

My eyes were so stiff that they started to hurt like they were going to fall out.

But you can’t waste time.

I urgently read the pages I had excluded due to time constraints gritting my teeth and clinging to the material to find out what I had missed.

“Yes all the way there.”

Hanseol covered my eyes with his hands blocking my vision.

“What are you doing?”

“Cool your head. “You’re the one who made it a habit to say that it’s not okay to overdo it.”

“No but not now.”

“Uh huh.”

The voice is quite stern.

From the looks of it it wasn’t an atmosphere where I could force myself to keep reading.

I had no choice but to comply and lay down on the chair with my body relaxed.

“That’s right.”

Hanseol’s fingers were massaging the area around my eyes.

I was more skilled than I thought. I could feel the fatigue accumulated during the preliminaries slowly dissipating.

‘…I guess it was a bit overheated.’

To be honest I was a little annoyed.

He was treated as Shin Seo-jun’s replacement and was allowed to suffer an unexpected blow in the evidence battle.

This is why since he is a former police officer and is an idiot he will not be able to resolve his anger unless he is given a hard hit.

But being impatient didn’t solve anything.

In the first place if the answer was beyond my abilities the problem was already over and even if I could find the answer I had to lose my composure to find out.

‘Okay let’s take a break for now.’

I just leaned back on the chair and rested for about 5 minutes. Finally Hanseol withdrew his hand.

“…Ugh it’s cool.”

“Phew what is that reaction? “He looks like an old man.”

“this.”

I took the data again in much improved condition.

Perhaps because of my mood my vision seemed to become clearer and the letters seemed to fit into my eyes.

“how is it? “Do you have any guesses?”

“Not yet.”

But that didn’t mean anything miraculous came to mind.

If things didn’t work out I could improvise when Goo Min-hwan insisted on something but my true intention was that I wanted to read the numbers in advance and give him a blow if possible.

“Hmm that’s difficult.”

While I was thinking about it I heard Hanseol muttering.

“Because they are also people who know how to use the cards prepared by the other party in reverse.”

“…for a moment. what?”

I paused for a moment.

“That’s right.”

Han Seol responded.

“We were planning to use precedent to reveal the legal standards for discontinuing life-sustaining treatment and to show A that he had no intention of discontinuing treatment… Instead they used the platform we had laid down and even used the evidence we applied for as a stage to assert their claims. .”

“That’s it!”

I shouted.

“okay. “Why didn’t I think of that?”

“Huh?”

My mind became bright as if lightning had struck.

It was to the point where I wanted to run around shouting “Eureka”.

Excited I jumped up from my seat and grabbed Hanseol’s hand.

“Why are you acting like this all of a sudden…?”

“I figured it out!”

“…huh?”

“A method of claiming innocence prepared by Gu Min-hwan. I am indeed. “I can’t believe you’re pulling such a ridiculous trick haha!”

“Ah okay just calm down and let go of this…!”