Судья, честный и беспристрастный.
Прокурор, умный, но психически нестабильный.
Адвокат, неопытный, но адекватный.
Обвиняемый, ни разу не здоровый, но таки вызывающий доверие прокурора.
Потерпевший, истеричный и… все.
Сочувствующий, случайно, вообще, попавший на заседание.
Психиатр, занудный и странный.
Прокурор: Stand up, please. Judge is coming. Sit down.
Судья: Today we consider the case of Mr. Greene, who is accused of killing four people. I give the floor to the prosecutor.
читать дальшеПрокурор: At the age of forty-two, Robert Greene, a businessman, was given a very hight position in a large company in Birmingham. He took the job as head of the markenig department. He was very ambitions and really wanted this well-paid job. He got what he wanted, but fifteenth september he shot five employees, killing four and seriously injuring one. He was arrested a thirty-first of September in a hotel a few hundred miles away.
The case have the testimony of three employees, who saw how he ran out of office immediately after the shots rang out. Also on the gun, from which was killed 4 people, there are fingerprints only Mr. Green. On the tenth page, judge, you can see the questioning of the arms dealer, who sold Mr. Green a gun a month before the offense.
Mr. Green pleaded guilty, but even without it, the evidence is sufficient to recognize that this act is a first degree murder, and to establish that Mr. Green deserves to be punished by imprisonment for a term of 20 years.
Судья: Thank you. Now I give the floor to the attorney.
Адвокат: First, my client had been provoked, is important for this case, I guess. Secondly, at the time of the crime he was in depression. The reason for this failure were both at work and the behavior of his colleagues, who disliked him and told everyone how bad he was at his job. Finally, I strongly disagree with the fact that the act of my client should be classified as first degree murder, just as second-degree murder. And we must not forget that, it was a first experience of Mr. Green in the crime. Before this case, he was a law-abiding citizen. But now he is a person who had lost everything! In the circumstances that we have outlined, the punishment should be mitigated.
Судья: Ok. The accused, you have to give testimony. Prosecutor, you can begin questioning.
Прокурор: What's your name? Where do you live now? Where do you work and what is your position?
Обвиняемый: My name is Robert Green. I live in Birmingham, on Adderley Road. I was the head of marketing department work at Regina.
Прокурор: What can you tell the court about this case?
Обвиняемый: I wanted my colleagues to pay attention to what I was saying, but all they did was laugh and taunt me... I was frustrated. All the anger and frustration that had built up in me over a period of weeks, months, over various things, came to a head at that point. I did not intend to shot anybody. I had lost my temper.
Прокурор: You assert that committed the murder under the irresistible impulse, but why do you have a gun on work? What circumstances have caused this?
Обвиняемый: Maybe I'm paranoid, but I was afraid that one day the ridicule of my colleagues went too far... I just wanted to scare them... Please, you must understand me! My wife left me! I living alone for the first time in my life! I was scared!
Прокурор: Your wife left you because your behavior was disgusting!
Обвиняемый: That’s your opinion!
Прокурор: No and let me tell you something… You must not show disrespect, ok? If you don’t like what the prosecutor doing then you take it to the next form, but you do not say here: “That’s your opinion”, like a baby. Don’t even another word. I do not care what you think about me, you must respect this process.
Адвокат: Ok, I am apologize for my client.
Судья: Prosecutor, do you have other questions to the accused?
Прокурор: No, but I want to note one circumstance. You should remember that no reasonable person, if he was provoked, on the question: “What are you going do with that” don’t respond to “buy a gun and scare them” or “kill them”. No reasonable person would or might have reacted to it as this accused did in the circumstances. Therefore, he should be imprisoned for many years.
Судья: I understand your point of view. Attorney, do you have a questions?
Адвокат: No, I think that everything is clear.
Судья: The victim, express your point of view.
Потерпевший: He killed my friends. Three widow and seven orphans suffer! He is guilty! He should be put in prison for the rest of his life — every day of it!
Прокурор: You know what… You the cause of this and you are just is guilty as he. You know why? Because you have done everything that he broke down. Your actions were despicable and terrible!
Потерпевший: If it wasn't for you, bitch, this never would have happened! You made my life miserable!
Прокурор: Shut up!
Судья: The victim, you can sit down. I ask all of you not to turn the trial into the devil knows what! I give the floor to the Mr. Greene’s colleague.
Сочувствующий коллега: Mr. Greene lived in the flat upstairs. He seemed such a nice man. I can’t understand it all. I feel very sorry for him. He is not a leader, and perhaps never was. I think, that work in our company was too difficult for him. But I do not think that men, whom he shot, doing something for which they should be killed. This situation is terrible.
Судья: Does anyone have questions? No issues, great. Psychiatrist, your word.
Психиатр: I am a psychiatrist. This was a man with minor personal difficulty, but those problems occasion by his personality have never been serious. He was bullied and the subject of some derision at school. He was normally on what I know far from aggressive. He was miserable, irritable, sleepless, lacking in energy, and evincing a progressive social withdrawal. He felt that his colleagues were being aggressive, insulting and derisive to him and that behaviour led him to feel that he was being particularly belittled because one of the effects of depression is that it tends to make the person who suffers from it magnify and distort insults or perceived insults.
Судья: Thank you. Prosecutor, do you have a questions? Attorney? No more questions. You can sit down. Hearing of arguments.
Прокурор: I think that 20 years is a fair punishment for the man who shot four people and seriously injured one. The defendant's guilt was fully proven. The prosecution gave the court all the necessary evidence. I also want to note that Mr. Green was recognized as completely sane. And the interrogation of witnesses show that the dead men couldn’t be responsible for such acts of the accused.
Адвокат: I ask the court to draw attention to the fact that I indicated earlier. This was the first experience. Mr. Green was in a depression. Colleagues were being obnoxious. All this should help to mitigate the punishment.
Судья: Last plea.
Обвиняемый: I admit my guilt! I am ready to correct myself! Please, judge, let the verdict will not be too harsh! I didn’t want to kill them! I didn’t want!
Судья: Court passes into the deliberation room to decide.
Прокурор: Stand up, please. Judge is coming. Sit down.
Судья: Mr. Green is sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 17 years. Sentence may be appealed to the Supreme Court. The court session adjourned.