Chapter 7 two years later

Nobuji Kuwayama, prosecutor of the Tokyo Higher Public Prosecutors Office, leans on the table and reviews an appeal record of the case.When the office couldn't finish processing, he packed up the documents and brought them home. This is a homicide case. The defendant pleaded not guilty and was originally sentenced to 12 years in prison.Sangshan has read the prosecution materials of the first-instance prosecutor, and is repeatedly reviewing the prosecutor's interrogation transcript, the police pre-trial transcript, witness testimony, and investigation records at the initial stage of the case.Now, it appears that the defendant's claim is far-fetched.

On Sangshan's desk are not only the case materials he accepted, but also some other books.Although reading materials is work, it is boring to read those things all the time. Whenever I get tired of reading them, I turn to other books for a change of taste.In this way, if you continue to look down just now, you will have a fresh feeling. However, sometimes because the book used to spice up the taste is very interesting, the scheduled time is exceeded without knowing it. The defendant in this case surrendered himself at the police station.Perhaps it was because he had surrendered himself and was careless. The police had many omissions in collecting evidence.However, after being prosecuted and accepted by the prosecutor, the defendant suddenly retracted his confession and denied that he had committed a crime.This is the reason why Sangshan carefully and repeatedly read the investigation records in the early stage of the incident.

The wife opened the sliding door and came in with a cup of black tea. "Still watching?" The wife puts down the teacup. My wife has a new hairstyle, and it looks like she has been to a beauty parlor during the day. Sangshan wanted to rest for a while, so he chatted with his wife for about ten minutes. "Are you still at the beauty salon you used to go to?" He asked casually. The wife nodded and replied: "Recently, many new shops have opened everywhere, but the places I frequent are more casual..." As she spoke, she frowned slightly, "The Murase beauty salon has been deserted since Sayama left. Come on, Sayama's skills were very extraordinary back then. Murase let go of a cash cow!

Sangshan has heard his wife mention the name of the beautician Sashan many times.It is said that he quit the beauty salon that his wife frequented two years ago and started his own business, which is quite famous now. "That can't be helped. Those who have the ability to say anything will have to be independent." "At that time, Murase was very angry, and the boss' wife was also very angry, saying that he resigned and did too insidiously. Sayama opened his own business and started preparing for it a long time ago, but he never told the boss and his wife. They felt that he had betrayed him... Now that Sayama is famous, the proprietress hates Sayama even more. Now it is different from before, and she keeps silent about Miyama.

"How did that Mr. Sashan become famous so quickly?" "Do you know an actor named Ryuko Fujinami? She was originally a singer and also acted. She is a star who often appears in movies and TV. When she held a solo concert, Sayama was in charge of doing her hair. At the solo concert On the show, Sayama has been guarding the backstage, and whenever the scene is changed, he designs her hairstyle according to the scene requirements, which is quite well received. It was not long after he opened the shop." Kuwayama knew the name Fujinami Ryuko.As the wife said, she is a big star.He also often reads magazines and weekly magazines.He believes that prosecutors must have a wealth of knowledge.

Before the war, there was a famous judge of the Supreme Court named Shotaro Miyake.He maintains that the verdict must be a good article, and for this reason, extensive reading of literature is required.He himself is a famous literati, with essays and other posthumous works. According to Miyake's point of view, if a judge does not read philosophical and literary works, he cannot get in touch with the world and understand the psychology of the defendant.At the moment, there is a collection of essays by Shotaro Miyake on Kuwayama's desk.Although magazines or weekly magazines cannot be regarded as philosophical and literary works as mentioned by Mr. Miyake, they can also help to broadly understand society.The reason why Sangshan knew about Fujinami Ryuko was from these publications, and he often saw her on the photo pages of magazines.

"Unsuspecting customers came into Murase's beauty salon, and sometimes asked, there used to be a Sayama here, right? Murase doesn't need to talk about it, anyway, Mrs. Ji is not very happy." "Why? Such a famous person once worked in his own beauty salon, he should be proud!" Sang Shan said while sipping black tea. "That lady is a strong person. When she thinks that the employee in her store is famous, she feels unhappy, because she can't help comparing him with her husband. After Xiangshan resigned, the store's customer source tax was reduced, and she I feel even worse."

"Are there a lot fewer customers?" "In the past, some people were Sayama's regular customers. Some rich wives and fashionable ladies all named Sayama by name. The number of such people has decreased significantly." "Where did Sayama-kun open the shop?" "I heard it's over there at Jiyugaoka. Not long ago, I was flipping through a women's magazine, and under a photo of a model, it was marked 'Combining hair, Michio Sayama'." It's not easy to be featured in a magazine!So Sasan-kun's beauty salon business is booming? "

"I think so, Sayama, what should I say? It's not so much his skill, it's better to say that you have a sense of beauty, which was revealed when you worked in Murase's shop. In today's era, the sense of beauty be very harmonious" "Sayama-kun built that store by himself?" "I heard that he himself told his colleagues in the store that it was basically built with his own money, but the Murases didn't believe it, because it was said that the wife of the manager of the securities company, Masako Hatano, had a close relationship with him. To be featured in a magazine like this is truly remarkable.”

The magazine his wife showed him was The Ladies Corridor. After his wife left, Sangshan wanted to leave the table for a while, but now it was time to adjust his appetite, so he picked up another book next to him.The title of the book is "Innocence and Non-prosecution Case Study". Sang Shan lit a cigarette and watched intently—— "There are two situations in which an acquittal should be acquitted. One is that the accused himself does not constitute a crime; the other is that there is no evidence of a crime against the accused himself. In both cases, the judge must acquit."

In determining the facts, the judge's point of view is often opposed to his.However, the judge's opinion is not without reference value for him.He continued down. "With regard to the latter, Article 1 of the Criminal Procedure Law clearly stipulates that all litigation procedures are to find out the truth of the case and to discover substantive facts. Even if there is suspicion, it cannot be declared guilty. If the defendant's defense is considered to be reasonable, he cannot ignore the defendant's defense and make a guilty verdict. This is a major principle of criminal procedure. Therefore, in cases that we believe have been thoroughly investigated Among them, quite a few will be acquitted by accident. Of course, innocence or guilt is the most problematic in this part. In the above-mentioned statistics of innocent cases, this part accounts for 70% to 80% which fully illustrates this point. Then, in what process did the judge form evidence on the existence of the facts constituting a crime? Without understanding this point, it is impossible to understand the reasons for innocence, and it is impossible to reflect on the circumstances of the investigation. "The judgment of innocence should be made on the basis of facts and when the evidence is insufficient. Insufficient evidence is divided into the following categories: lack of evidence or due to the loss of validity of the evidence, it is not empirical, that is, the amount of evidence is insufficient; the evidence is complete, But it lacks the power to prove the facts (the value of the evidence), and the lack of reasons that everyone can accept, that is, the quality of the evidence is poor·” Sangshan saw this unconsciously by comparing the cases he had accepted recently.Next, he sees a section of a robber-murder case cited as an example of an acquittal. The case happened in a certain village in Chikushi County, Fukuoka Prefecture. A farmer was killed by robbers for five days in the middle of the night. The criminal had no clue.A week after the investigation began, the police station arrested the victim’s friend as a suspect. The suspicion was that someone nearby saw the suspect wandering behind the victim’s house shortly after the inferred time of committing the crime, as if looking for what.He told people in the village that when he visited the victim's home the next morning, a child came out and told him that no one was home.In fact he should have known that the child had been killed by him, so he was lying on purpose. The raincoat the suspect was wearing that night and human blood stained on the boots were found during the ransacking of the house, which became strong evidence.However, the two appraisers disagreed on whether the bloodstain was consistent with the victim's blood type.Therefore, the decisive bloodstains did not constitute sufficient proof, and finally acquitted. ——The situation of the example is roughly the same. Since this crime took place in a village in Chikushi-gun, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kuwayama accidentally recalled the past when he visited Musashi Onsen near Dazaifu eight years ago.Musashi Onsen is also in Chikushi-gun.At that time, I was still working as a prosecutor in the Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office. It happened to be Sakyamuni's birthday on April 8, and I visited Tenbaishan Temple, which was related to Mr. Eihara.Under the mountain gate where the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, you can also see boys and girls parading in a procession. At that time, the back mountain of the monastery was conducting a scene investigation for a young woman who was strangled to death.It is said that the victim was an employee of a company in Saga, and the criminal was a patient who escaped from a mental hospital.Speaking of the lunatic under the cherry tree is quite funny, but the young woman who was killed is a pity.It is said that the lunatic holding a straw rope is hiding in the back mountain of the monastery, and the poor woman just passed by there.The crime was committed in the evening. He remembered that after talking with the deputy public prosecutor who had met in Fukuoka, he walked back to the hotel along the field path.The children's procession is going on at the foot of the mountain, and the scene of people flocking together is still in sight—— That case should be innocent, I don't know what happened afterwards.Sang Shan was fascinated by recalling the past. A few days after Sangshan chatted with his wife about going to Sandov, there was an event that required the couple to go to Kyushu together.My wife's hometown is Gona, a small town in Kumamoto Prefecture.The wife's nephew is getting married there and they are going to the wedding. Originally, it was enough for the wife to go alone, but Sangshan liked this small country town.I went there when I was working at the Fukuoka District Public Prosecutor's Office.Long time no see, want to visit.He only took five days off.I haven't been out of Tokyo for a while, and I really want to go to the countryside. Goming City is close to the northwest end of Kumamoto Prefecture, not far from Fukuoka Prefecture, and it takes two hours to get there by express train from Hakata.Kuwayama decided to stay at Musashi Onsen in Fukkaichi, near Hakata, before going to the wedding.The night before yesterday, I inadvertently recalled the Buddha bathing ceremony at Sansaka Temple. At the beginning, I planned to take the Shinkansen express train to Hakata, but because of work, the time was too tight, so I changed to take a plane. They took the Japan Airlines flight departing at 3:20 p.m., and they sat on the couch in the waiting room 30 minutes earlier and waited.There are still many passengers. Broadcast broadcast It's boarding time.When queuing at the ticket gate, his wife leaned into Sangshan's ear and whispered: "Hey, Sayama is here, over there." Sangshan knew that it was not appropriate to turn back immediately, so he followed the team and moved forward. When he passed the ticket gate, he looked back nonchalantly. He didn't know him, so he couldn't tell which one was Sayama in the crowd, but what caught his eye was a group of five or six gorgeously dressed young women. "You see a woman with sunglasses and a white suit? The one with the wide-brimmed hat... the one behind the shoulder, the one with the sunglasses..." His wife hastily introduced him. There was such a commotion there that Sangci couldn't make out even when he boarded the plane ahead. The seats are near the rear.The wife sits by the window. Passengers who came up later walked forward along the passage.Some people said that the stewardess helped to find the seat, while others found it by themselves, and the plane was chaotic and noisy. The group of gorgeous women just came up and walked past Sangshan.The woman in sunglasses and a suit walked in front. She was the only one who had no luggage in her hand. The others were carrying two white and red cosmetic handbags.Followed by five men. "Hey, that's him!" The wife whispered into Sangshan's ear. Behind the woman, a man wearing dark sunglasses was joking with the same woman, and then sat by the window on this side.The man sitting next to him was like a companion. Sangshan glanced at the man his wife had mentioned.The man was about 30 years old, with an ordinary appearance, a moderate build, and an ordinary hairstyle. If his wife didn't tell him, she would think he was a company employee on a business trip.It's just that when he talks and laughs with women, he looks very gentle.I'm afraid that's because I heard my wife say that he is a beautician, so I have that impression.Sangshan recalled the hairstyle in the magazine photo his wife showed him in the study the night before. "Have male beauticians traveled around by plane recently?" Sangshan asked his wife when the cabin fell silent.The engine started roaring. "That's right, but Sayama seems to be doing hair styling with the actors." His wife said, looking at the seat in front of her.The women sat on the left and right seats across the aisle. From here, they could only see their heads, and half of them had their hair dyed red. "Which women are actresses or singers?" "Well, the one in white at the front is probably a celebrity, I don't know which one it is. But since he is Sayama's follower, he must not be an ordinary singer." "Is Sayama-kun so amazing?" "It's hot! He won't go out with some out-of-the-box actors in order to make himself famous. He made his fortune at Tatsuko Fujinami's solo concert at the beginning, so of course he doesn't want to lose his fame." The plane lifts off.The passengers leaned back.The plane dived into the clouds. "Does Sayama-kun know that you are on this flight?" Sangshan asked after a while. "Well, I didn't see it." The wife replied, "I asked him to do it two years ago, and besides, Sayama is not the only one who does my hairstyle, anyone can do it." "Is Sayama-kun's design aimed at young people?" "Yes, this is his specialty. He does it very beautifully, but the middle-aged man's hairstyle is also good. I think he really lives up to his reputation." The wife said, as if thinking about something.Probably because she was recalling the appearance of those middle-aged female customers, but she didn't tell her husband. The plane turned into level flight, and the sound of unfastening seat belts sounded all around.The stewardess brought hand towels. Sangshan took out a book from his purse, the title of which was "Research on the Psychology of Confessions", and he flipped to the place where the bookmark was placed. "...According to Zelich's Psychology of Confessions, false confessions by suspects occur outside the realm of denials and confessions, i.e. in unimportant incidental circumstances as well as in confessions about the suspect's experience. These lies, once Denouncing is often seen as unreliable on the spot, so it is crucial that people who are fully aware that they have not committed a crime can also lie for a variety of reasons. "That is, these people lie either to conceal some vulnerability of their own; or to keep a secret that even relatives do not know; or to keep close relatives from being involved in a lawsuit; or to not expose a sexual relationship with a particular person. ; or to keep professional secrets; or because they are worried that answering truthfully will bring disadvantages to themselves in litigation procedures; or to verify whether the truth will not be understood, etc. " His wife's arm touched him lightly.Sangshan raised his head. In the aisle over there stood two young women, handing something that looked like a notebook to the seat.A woman in sunglasses is sitting there.The female passenger took the notebook and began to write.Two young women looked on happily. "Oh, I remembered. She was wearing sunglasses, I didn't recognize her. She is Tsuruko Kusakata. She is famous for singing pop songs..." As soon as his wife said, Sangshan took another look.Sitting here can only see the hair.Caoxiangtian pigeons are often seen on TV.What my wife said was right. She is a young singer who has become popular recently. "Sayama is here with Kusakata Tsuruko. Maybe she will hold a solo concert in a theater in Fukuoka. Maybe she also followed the example of Fujinami Ryuko and asked Sayama to design the hairstyle on stage. That must be the case." Discovered Kusakata Tsuruko's The wife said confidently. Unknowingly, the content of the conversation in the study three or four days ago became a reality, and the wife couldn't help being a little excited.Sangshan is not uninterested either. After a while, Sangshan didn't care about reading.This time he noticed it himself.The man wearing sunglasses left his seat and walked along the aisle, as if he was going to the bathroom.Sangshan looked at him nonchalantly.It turned out to be an unremarkable ordinary man with slightly high cheekbones and thin lips.These are the characteristics.The upper body is black and more uniform, with a yellow tie and a handkerchief of the same color; the lower body is slim-leg pants, the fabric is high-grade, and the workmanship is exquisite.That attire was not very impressive, it was just a somewhat pretentious gesture when walking. An Zisheng turned to the window, the plane pierced through the clouds and fog, and gradually passed the tea-brown top of Mount Fuji. "The male beautician is not so annoying!" Sangshan looked down at the book again. "At many important points in real life, there are obvious differences in the psychological symptoms of men and women. A lot of energy has been spent on confession research, trying to find this difference in confession assignments. However, the results only need to be correct. Thinking that the foundation is negative. Women seldom forget things, but they often teach. This Stud's old principle has been verified repeatedly; but at the same time. In many occasions..." Michio Sayama walked past Kuwayama, interrupting his reading.His eyes were on his back. Sayama's seat was twelve or three rows ahead.He didn't return to his seat right away, stopped halfway, turned his face to the side and started talking. In front of the seat seven rows away from Sangshan, there seemed to be some acquaintance sitting, and he seemed to be greeting an acquaintance.From here, only the woman's hair can be seen protruding from the white seat. In less than a minute, Sayama returned to his seat. Sangshan lowered his head to read again, but suddenly remembered, and asked his wife: "Caoxiang Tianhezi is also a stage name, right?" "Probably, I'm not sure. Maybe Cao Xiang is a fake surname." Sangshan did not agree with his wife's speculation, but said nothing, and buried himself in the book again. What follows is an elaboration on the confessions of the suspects and witnesses.People's confessions are really unreliable, and the pursuit of truth is not easy. "...but at the same time, it has been unproven on many occasions. It is true that women are generally more emotional, but this is hardly noticeable in the confession work; and for various reasons other than personality The difference is covered up, concealed." After arriving at Banfu Airport, the Sangshan couple left their seats first and walked down the gangway.Cao Xiangtian Hezi and his party walked behind with the group of passengers behind. In the pick-up hall on the top of the airport building and around the exit, a group of young women frequently waved behind Sang Shan, and someone called out Cao Xiang's name loudly. Many young people gathered in the waiting room at the exit, and they all looked at the passengers behind, many of them holding small flags of theaters and performance companies. Sangshan went to the lobby to wait for the luggage to be unloaded from the plane.Cao Xiangtian Hezi and his party came out from the arrival gate, so the young people cheered.The people who were picking up the guests didn't know what happened, so they all stood up and looked over there.People holding small banners of performance companies separated from the crowd and stood in the front row.Cao Xiang Tian Hezi wore a white hat on his head and a suit on his body, walking in front of the group of women, nodding his head repeatedly, with a smile on his face.The woman behind was wearing a patterned round-sleeve costume, which contrasted with her suit, and the accompanying men stopped young fans who asked for autographs.That's where the fun is. A group of people walked out of the hall quickly and got into several cars waiting at the exit.Michio Sayama and several other men followed behind them, but because they were separated by the crowd, they disappeared in a blink of an eye.As soon as the car drove away, people dispersed one after another. A lot of passengers gathered here to pick up their luggage, and four or five young people from the performance company who picked up the luggage for the singers and his party were also crowded inside. "A solo concert will be held at the Fukuoka International Theater at 6 o'clock tonight. It will be held for two consecutive days, and the pre-sale tickets are sold out five days ago. Cao Xiangtian Tsuruko is very popular!" While waiting for his luggage, the young man answered the surrounding inquiries. Passengers from Tokyo also gathered there.Behind him stood a woman in a blue suit and sunglasses, who seemed to be hiding behind people and waiting. The suitcase finally arrived.Sangshan and his wife walked to the taxi stand. Tell the driver to go to Musashi Onsen, and put your luggage in the rear trunk.The car goes in the opposite direction to Hakata.Tianbai Mountain, which has not been seen for many years, casts a low shadow.There is a small temple at the foot of the mountain. The driver heard from the passengers in the car that she was on the same flight as Cao Xiangtian Tsuruko, so he kept asking her about her situation.Telling him the disappointment of not knowing much because the seats were so far apart, the young driver went on to tell her story.Probably from the magazines. Sangshan asked the car to drive to the hotel where he lived eight years ago, but the hotel was small and full.The driver drove the car to the entrance of a big hotel in the middle of Hotel Street. Sangshan took a bath and was reading the newspaper when the waitress came to prepare the meal.The lights in the room were blindingly bright. "Have you been here before?" Sang Shan put down the newspaper and asked the waitress.The waitress is thirty-four or fifteen years old, with sparse hair and eyebrows. "Well, it's been seven years." The waitress replied in Mandarin. "Seven years?" Sangshan thought, one year to go.He asked again, "Speaking of which, you may know that there is a monastery under Tianbai Mountain. Eight years ago, a young woman was killed behind the monastery... Do you know?" The waitress who was setting the tableware stopped and said, "Well, I heard that the person who killed the girl was a lunatic who escaped from the mental hospital. I heard that it happened a year before I came here." "Yeah. What happened to that murderous lunatic? Haven't heard of it?" "I heard the verdict was not guilty." It turned out to be the case. "How is the madman doing now?" "Aren't you still in the mental hospital? I don't know." The waitress began to set the tableware again, "I'll ask the accountant below, okay?" "You don't need to ask specifically, just inquire about it by the way." "I see." In the occupation column of the passenger registration form brought by the waitress, Sangshan only filled in "civil servant". My wife came out of the shower. "It looks delicious!" said the wife, looking at the sumptuous meal. Sanxian and singing came from outside.The ballad is the same tune as it was eight years ago.