Even if they were given a chance to try, it couldn't be any worse. Cheng Chuxiao and Han Tianming exchanged glances, their eyes brimming with a strong desire to survive. They were trying to save themselves.
Cheng Chuxiao was the first to stand up. Looking at Qin Mu, she bit her teeth and said unwillingly, "We are willing to apologize and compensate—na your price, and we'll pay it. We will also issue a public apology online, restoring your reputation and that of the nursing ho."
She hoped this would make Qin Mu relent and spare them. Although she couldn't receive a suspended sentence, perhaps it could reduce her sentence by a year or two.
However, Qin Mu simply smiled and said, "The litigation request includes an apology, compensation, and reputation restoration. That's what you're supposed to do anyway."
"Tell , what do we need to do for you to let us go?" Cheng Chuxiao stared at Qin Mu, her emotions nearing a critical point.
But Qin Mu just shrugged. He turned to Zhou Quanmin and reported, "Judgnt Chief, the opposing party is attempting to solicit my conditions in court, effectively trying to bribe ."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Quanmin's face darkened. He still looked at Cheng Chuxiao and warned, "This is the free debate stage. Please focus on the points of contention and avoid irrelevant topics!"
Rebuked like this, Cheng Chuxiao's face turned red. She trembled with anger but was at a loss as to how to address the focal points.
At that mont, Han Tianming, standing beside her, stepped forward and countered Qin Mu, "I believe the evidence you listed in the rights defense group illegally infringes upon our right to privacy and should therefore be inadmissible!"
In a bid to get a suspended sentence instead of prison ti, he had racked his brains and finally ca up with an idea. He rembered once seeing a news story about soone who presented secretly recorded conversations and videos in a lawsuit, which the court did not admit.
Thinking of this, Han Tianming beca more animated as he argued, "Your eavesdropping on and dissemination of our group chats violate the privacy of most group mbers and constitute an illegal act!"
As long as these pieces of evidence were dismissed, it couldn't be proven that he had ever organized others to commit defamation. He wouldn't be a core mber of the rights defense group, rely a netizen who participated in this online harassnt incident, thereby having a chance at a suspended sentence.
After he finished speaking, Cheng Chuxiao and the others beside him looked visibly excited. Within their previously dim eyes, a desire for survival flickered. They were utterly thrilled.
Only Zhang Wei helplessly patted his forehead, a look of utter exasperation on his face. "This is a criminal case, not a civil lawsuit."
On the plaintiff's side, Qin Mu, without so much as lifting an eyelid at Han Tianming's rebuttal, added his own offhand remark.
That single remark was enough to confound Han Tianming, Cheng Chuxiao, and the others.
Han Tianming swallowed hard and directly asked, "What… what do you an?"
However, after Qin Mu made that statent, he didn't bother with Han Tianming anymore. Instead, Zhang Wei, who was nearby, kindly reminded him, "The illegally collected evidence you ntioned as inadmissible applies to civil lawsuits; criminal proceedings are not subject to this rule."
What Han Tianming said indeed had so rit, but it stemd from a limited understanding. According to civil procedure law, evidence materials obtained by infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of others through thods such as surreptitious filming, secret recording, or eavesdropping; evidence materials fild or recorded without the other party's permission; and evidence materials obtained through improper ans such as inducent, deception, coercion, or violence, should all be deed inadmissible by the court. This refers to civil lawsuits.
However, criminal cases do not adhere to this evidentiary principle. Consider this: soone in a room cries for help. A neighbor hears it, forcibly breaks down the door, witnesses a cri in progress, and films it. This would certainly infringe upon the other person's property rights and right to privacy, and the evidence would be considered illegally collected. However, it would still be valid because it pertains to a criminal offense!
And the case they were currently involved in was indeed a criminal private prosecution, not an ordinary civil lawsuit! If it were a civil lawsuit—for example, a divorce case where secretly fild evidence was used to prove a husband's infidelity and seek a divorce—the court would not support such evidence.
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