Chapter 692: The Great Devil Is Dead! (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote for Me) Please Vote for Me at the End of the Month!

However, the United States has one advantage, that is, plea bargaining! This judicial system is extremely irresponsible in Kai's opinion. The so-called "plea bargaining", the formal legal term is "plea bargaining/agreement", which usually refers to the suspect admitting the crime in exchange for a lighter criminal punishment. Common plea agreements include the defendant reducing the number of charges he pleads guilty to, the prosecutor recommending a lighter sentence to the judge, and the suspect agreeing to admit certain specific facts.

The original intention of plea bargaining is to save judicial costs. As we all know, the judicial costs in the United States have always been very high. It is too common for a murder case to be tried for several years. Remember that this is only the time of the trial. If some other messy time is added, it will be even longer.

And this requires huge costs! So the plea bargaining system appeared. It is undeniable that this system has its positive significance. It can effectively save litigation costs, improve judicial efficiency, and alleviate the backlog of a large number of cases. In the United States, more than 90% of criminal cases are resolved through plea bargaining.

But there are also negative meanings, and they are huge. For example, many felons can get a lighter sentence by admitting to several minor crimes through this deal.

This does take into account the judicial cost, but it does not take into account the real justice, not the procedural justice, but the real justice that the victim deserves!

So Kai has always disliked this kind of deal and has never done it.

But this time, Kai felt that he could make an exception. The reason is simple. Hope is not a real criminal. She was controlled from beginning to end. Her experience and injuries are already very serious. If she goes to jail again... it would be a nightmare.

Kai then called Shariz and Hope's lawyers and asked them to negotiate directly with Harvey.

Harvey also sympathized with Hope's experience, but for Harvey, procedural justice is far more important than what he thinks of as individual justice. Because only by adhering to procedural justice can the city of New York get back on track. Individual justice may be exciting, but it can never replace judicial justice, because justice is the cornerstone of maintaining social stability and the development of civilization! If everyone becomes a vigilante, then it is a poison to this society!

Harvey doesn't like vigilantes, and it has always been like this.

Of course, he has no opinion on vigilantes themselves. On the contrary, he thinks that these vigilantes are the ones who truly have justice in their hearts. Unfortunately, the justice that the public needs is not the justice of vigilantes abusing lynching, but an upright judicial system!

It has nothing to do with personal feelings, just different positions.

The negotiations went smoothly. First of all, Shariz had no opinion on the civil lawsuit filed by the victim's family, and was even willing to settle with them out of court. The amount of money didn't matter. Neither Hope's father nor Shariz herself was short of money.

Secondly, the criminal lawsuit was kept as low-key as possible. Neither Hope nor Shariz wanted excessive participation in public opinion. No matter where it is, as long as there are too many people involved, it is easy to cause trouble. If it causes a nationwide discussion, then... it will be a disaster for Hope and Shariz. →

Especially Shariz, she is a public figure. Once she is connected with this, her career will be ruined.

Just like Jodie Foster, she was shot because of Reagan's assassination (the murderer confessed that he did it to attract Judy's attention), which resulted in a great setback in her career. Her best years were wasted. When she returned to the public eye again, she could only play the role of a mother.

Harvey had no objection to this. Anyway, the deal was reached and there was no need for a jury. High-profile and low-profile are in the hands of the judge. Just make a good call, and this matter can be done silently. The only thing to consider is the emotions of the victim's family.

However... Although it is a bit bad to say this, the victim's family is willing to keep it secret after understanding the incident and the large amount of compensation. It's just a large hush money.

This is a money society.

At least here, no one thinks this is shameful.

In short, after a long and fierce negotiation, the final conclusion was finally reached.

Hope must plead guilty. This is indisputable.

Secondly, Hope must be admitted to a mental hospital. There is no compromise on this point. Of course, as a concession, the New York prosecutors and the court can allow Hope's family to designate a mental hospital or a place with a certificate for treating mental illness, such as a sanatorium with a good environment.

And the court allows that if Hope is cured, she can be discharged from the hospital and regain her freedom after being certified by three or even multiple medical institutions.

After contacting Bob, Shariz finally reached an agreement on such conditions.

Bob was reluctant to admit that his daughter had a mental illness, but this was the best result, so he could only agree.

Although it was not a happy ending, it was still a result that everyone accepted.

…

Kai followed Shariz and Harley to the hospital to visit Hope, who was about to be transferred to a top sanatorium in New York.

Hope's mental state was much better than before, but she was still a little dull. When she saw Shariz, she just glanced at her and continued to look out the window.

"She is in a much better condition now. At least her previous suicidal tendencies are gone. She is just in a closed-off phase now." The attending physician has been replaced by a psychology expert in the hospital, and the effect is naturally immediate.

"When can she recover to be the same as before?" Shariz hopes that her niece can return to her previous cheerfulness.

The attending doctor looked at Sharizi helplessly. This is the helplessness of psychologists. They are not ordinary medicine. If the disease is cured, it will be completely cured. Psychological problems are too subjective. It is not that the doctor can cure it.

"Ms. Theron, psychiatric medicine is different from other medicine. Psychology is more subjective. The role of the doctor is to guide. The real recovery requires the patient's own efforts. → And generally, even if the physical injury is cured, it will leave scars and other things, not to mention the psychological ones. People are the product of the environment. After experiencing those things, Miss Hope's life has changed. It is impossible to recover. All we can do is to let her get rid of the influence of those things and greet the next life with a positive or normal attitude."

The meaning is almost the same. Things have happened and they can't change them, so they can only look forward to everything.

Sharizi opened her mouth. In fact, she has the most say in this matter. After all, she saw her mother kill her father with her own eyes. This influence changed her life. Even now, it still has an impact and can't be forgotten at all.

"When can she be discharged?" Shariz asked again.

"It's hard to say. It depends on the recovery." This kind of subjective psychological thing is not much better than metaphysics. It is impossible to predict. Maybe Hope will figure it out tomorrow, or maybe she will never get out of it.

"Can we talk to her?" Kai pointed to the ward.

The doctor thought about it and finally nodded: "Yes, but it's best not to let her be overly stimulated. Because it's hard for us to predict the result."

As the attending physician, he knew the case and knew that the murderer was brought to justice. But out of caution, he still didn't want to stimulate Hope.

Kai didn't listen much to the attending physician's words.

In Kai's opinion, Hope's biggest problem now is probably the fear of Kilgrave. If he could know that the bastard had died, perhaps that would be the best medicine.

After about ten minutes.

Kai was driven out of the ward by the angry attending physician and the furious Bob.

Because Hope collapsed...

When she saw Kilgrave's head being shot, she didn't know whether she was stimulated or simply frightened. The reaction was quite intense. Molly, who had been a little dazed, had a violent reaction. She cried and laughed, cursed and beat, and knelt on the ground sobbing for a long time.

It took several nurses and sedatives to calm her down again.

Bob was even more furious and wanted to sue Kai.

Shariz could only let Kai go first, and she slowly calmed everyone's emotions here. Harley was gloating.

Harley was a serious doctor of psychology, and she didn't recommend Kai to do this before. Unfortunately, Kai, who was not even half-baked, thought that people's adaptability was very strong, and this would help Hope's recovery.

I don't know where he learned some stimulation therapy, but the stimulation was enough, but as for the result... it's hard to say.

...

The next morning, New York had a rare sunny weather, and there was a faint sun in the sky early in the morning. On the fourth floor of an old apartment building in Clinton, Jessica got up from her bed, her eyes blank, her hands scratching her messy black hair.

After a moment, she came to her senses.

She had left the team, and she felt that she could not face her companions. It was obviously her own business, and they were all helping her, but in the end... her powerlessness not only failed to help others, but also became a burden.

This made Jessica depressed again.

Then she returned to her previous decadence.

Looking at the golden light slanting in on the gray glass, she murmured: "It's dawn, I actually slept until dawn?"

As if something was destined to happen, Jessica inexplicably felt that the whole world was different today.

According to her own habits, she had to get drunk every night, using alcohol to numb her mind, so that she could fall asleep in a daze. That's why she always went to bed late and woke up early. Her extraordinary qualities were not completely immune to the side effects of alcohol, but she had to drink the strongest vodka, and the feeling of a hangover would not be reduced at all. But this morning, her head did not have the dull pain after a hangover, nor did she feel dry mouth after waking up in the past.

A peaceful and stable sleep put her body in a comfortable and lazy state. She lay down again, watching the sunlight shine into the apartment, her mind empty and thinking of nothing.

No nightmares, no mundane trivia.

Dong Dong Dong!

Just when Jessica thought she could have a day of leisure, there was a knock on the door.

Jessica didn't like being disturbed at this time, this was a rare quiet time.

Unfortunately, the knock on the door was persistent.

Finally, Jessica had to open the door.

It was Matt and Luke who opened the door.

These two people had also come to her in the past few days, but Jessica didn't want to listen to their preaching. Jessica knew that they were doing it for her own good. Unfortunately, if this kind of thing could be solved with just a few words, she wouldn't be in such a mess now.

"Are you okay? I told you I don't want to hear that. It's useless."

"Kilgrave is dead."

Jessica lost her voice and asked, "What?"

She didn't expect these two people to bring her such news, but she immediately asked, "Kilgrave is dead?"

Matt nodded, "He's been dead for more than half a month. The body is in the morgue over at the 15th Bureau. It will be taken to the public cemetery for burial soon."

SHIELD took Kilgrave's body away, but the case in New York had to be closed. What to do without the body? So SHIELD sent the body back without waiting for the police to get angry.

Anyway, it was exactly the same. As for whether it was the original one, the police didn't find anything wrong. So they didn't care.

Jessica still couldn't believe it. "How is it possible! How did he die?"

Speaking of this, Matt said a little weirdly: "This guy controlled the police chief to shoot himself in the head..."

"Huh?"

Jessica's mouth opened wide, and she didn't know how to digest the news for a while. Kilgrave, just died? That devil-like lingering and terrifying monster, just died?

In Jessica's eyes, Kilgrave was an extremely powerful demon king, and she herself was a weak rookie who hadn't left the novice village. But such a demon king actually committed suicide?

"Did he really commit suicide?"

"Ahem... This is the answer given by the police." Matt knew it was impossible, but the police gave this answer. Believe it or not.

Anyway, no one will complain about this guy.

After a long pause, she grabbed Matt's hand and asked, "Where is Kilgrave's body?"

At this time, Luke pretended to be calm and took Jessica's hand from Matt, and then said softly, "I'll go with you to the police station morgue."

After taking it, Jessica didn't pay attention to his warm man temperament at all, but stood up suddenly, shook off Luke, jumped lightly, and landed on the third floor with a bang, and ran away.

After Matt and Luke looked at each other, they could only catch up quickly.

...

"I said... Are you okay? You want to see a body in the middle of the night?" Kai looked at Matt a little crazy. As for Luke and Jessica behind him, Kai pretended not to know them. After all, as the police chief, he had never seen the two of them. Kai's acting skills have always been very good!

That day, his acting in front of SHIELD was awkward because he deliberately wanted to anger SHIELD. It has nothing to do with Kai's own strength!

Matt also felt that this request was a bit... something.

But there was no way Jessica could no longer control herself. He really had no other choice but to ask Kai for help. Otherwise, he might not be willing to face Kai.

Kai, on the other hand, didn't care about Matt's little emotion at all. It didn't matter whether he saw her or not. Matt wasn't his lover. Was he wasting his brain cells just because Matt didn't want to see him?

"You wouldn't do anything weird with the corpse, would you? You know that's illegal, and you don't want me to arrest you, do you?"

Matt was shocked. It was true. Looking at Jessica's expression... they had long guessed that something must have happened between Jessica and Kilgrave, and it seemed that Jessica had a big psychological shadow. If something really happened, then they...

In the end, Luke was more righteous: "I'll keep an eye on her!"

This was actually said to Matt. Matt nodded and believed Luke.

"We can control the situation."

"Really?"

"I promise!"