Reincarnated as incubus: I didn't mean to seduce you!-Chapter 689 - 224_4

Harry nodded, the basic situation was consistent with what Kael had said.

Kael continued, "Then what about the investigation results from the Noble Council? Did they find any evidence?"

A frustrated look appeared on Harry's face as he said,

"The investigation by the Council showed that after the collision, the Bronze Cross, upon receiving the message, had lawfully processed the accident and created an interrogation record.

After receiving the order from the Noble Council, the staff of the Bronze Cross who dealt with the incident confirmed the accuracy of the conversation record.

The content of the conversation record stated:

The plaintiff and the defendant had a collision, and the plaintiff did not object to this conversation record.

However, the defendant, a commoner, asserted that the conversation record was a recounting of the interrogation records made by the Knight who processed the accident on the day of the incident and the next day, and that it had not been verified against the interrogation records. Therefore, its authenticity could not be confirmed, and it could not be used as factual evidence for this case."

Kael laughed.

His father worked in the Lion Heart Battle Group, after all; he was more informed than the average person, and immediately said,

"So, this person admitted he knocked down a noble and then the next day denied his own words, thinking that the 'evidence' provided by the Bronze Cross did not meet the legal definition of evidence, and could not be used as a basis for judgment...

It's not that he didn't do it, right?"

Harry nodded and said, "Kael, you should know that the Bronze Cross and our Secret Scroll Mage Academy have a close partnership. We had previously installed a magic recording device there at the Bronze Cross.

According to the internal logic of the functioning of the magic recording device, it is determined that the magic document and written materials of the record produced for this incident all show that the document was created on the second day following the incident.

At that time, the plaintiff noble had not yet received the large medical treatment fee issued by the Church, nor had he filed a complaint against the plaintiff.

What angered me the most was that, according to the case records at the time by the Council, that commoner believed that the record's magic document was the result of magic effects, without an original to verify against, its authenticity could not be confirmed, and much of the content was not his own words.

Moreover, he argued that the case between him and the noble was a civil case and that the Bronze Cross had no right to gather evidence. The magic document and related materials thus could not serve as proof to ascertain the facts of this case."

Kael shook his head, both parties had acknowledged that the noble was injured after being knocked down.

A normal person who is knocked down by an external force would typically first identify the source of the force, recognizing who hit them.

If the person they collided with chooses to flee at that time, then the first reaction of the one knocked down should be to cry for help and request assistance to stop them.

According to Harry's description, Kael was certain that the place where the accident occurred was an area with a large crowd. If someone were to cry out for help, there would surely be passengers who could hear it.

But the noble at the scene didn't cry for help, and the commoner defendant was the first person to get off.

If that unlucky noble hadn't collided with the first person to get off, then he would have instinctively avoided others getting off behind him.

Therefore, by logical analysis, the probability of the unfortunate noble being hit by the defendant commoner was extremely high.

If the defendant commoner was truly acting heroically, as he claimed, then after family members arrived at the scene, a group took the noble for treatment at the Church, and that commoner would have no need to pay additional treatment costs, especially where the noble's family had the money.

This clearly goes against common sense.

Of course, even if the commoner were to be seen as a super good Samaritan, taking all burdens upon himself, the Magic Record at the station should be without issues.

But the reason he rejected the Magic Record was that the case didn't fall under the jurisdiction of the Bronze Cross, and that the Bronze Cross's evidence wasn't supported legally...

Not that the evidence was invalid.

So after close scrutiny, in the end, the noble in charge of the case at the Noble Council, after all the actions that deviated from the norm, dismissed the commoner's appeal and deduced from the above conclusions: "If you didn't do it, why would you help?" Any issues?

Clearly, there were no issues. The only problem was that the situation was exploited by someone, who disregarded all the preceding deduction steps. When it was published in the newspapers, they omitted the logic of the deduction and recorded only that nearly mocking phrase for the sake of newspaper sales and sensationalism—

"If you didn't do it, why would you help?"

The reasons are nothing more than the chaos of the times and the foolish actions taken by media workers devoid of basic professional ethics.

Indeed, to those who understood the detailed circumstances, it would be clear whether it was the noble judge who uttered that sentence, the commoner who deliberately played the victim, or the major newspapers only looking for traffics that caused the legal system of the Duchy of Englance to regress by ten years and even sparked small-scale conflicts between nobles and commoners.

Seeming to feel a bit uncomfortable, Harry expressed his thoughts quite strongly today, murmuring,

"Kael, do you know? Back then, that case, in the eyes of many, was thought to be identical to what was reported by the media.

Almost everyone blamed the noble judge and the injured noble for the mistake, and it's been over a decade since the case. Due to the adverse effects produced by the case back then, the noble judge has since faced great ostracism and had no choice but to leave the Royal Capital of the Duchy and hide in a remote countryside."