You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 318

“Since Mr. Seong hasn’t confessed yet, we don’t know the full details. But we can speculate. Judging by the current atmosphere, Mr. Seong won’t be able to deny it in the end. Just look at how the current affairs program interviewed people around him today; they all said that Mr. Seong usually harbored ill feelings towards the deceased.”

It was as if they had mobilized the media in advance to create the impression that ‘he wanted to hide his hatred for Lee Jung-chan from the beginning, but he had no choice but to confess because so many testimonies were gathered.’

Perhaps viewers who knew that Lee Jung-chan was going to hand over data exposing Wooshin’s irregularities on the day of the incident felt uncomfortable watching the broadcast because they strongly sensed the media’s intentions.

No matter how much they try to hide it, such attempts are bound to show in their actions.

People feel it, even if they can’t quite articulate why they’re uncomfortable.

So, some people just choose to remain silent.

That’s why the media thinks they can get away with it.

It’s foolish.

“I think Mr. Seong will eventually claim that he commissioned Shin and Park to commit the murder simply because of personal feelings. But if that happens, a strange question arises: ‘Why did they kill him so obviously?’”

“That’s definitely true.”

“I have experience as a prosecutor in the criminal division, so I’ve dealt with countless murder cases.”

“Ah, right. For reference, Attorney Cha obtained a death sentence against serial killer Jo Jin-tae when he was a prosecutor.”

[woawoa: Wow, Jo Jin-tae…]

[KimchiSoup: What, he was the prosecutor who caught Jo Jin-tae? Crazy]

“People who kill someone to gain some kind of benefit tend to disguise it as a suicide or an accident. Killing someone so obviously is usually a characteristic seen in serial killers who kill for pleasure. But Shin and Park are just people who were commissioned to commit murder, and they are not serial killers. There is no evidence that they are people who take murder requests for pleasure. They don’t have any prior convictions of the same kind either. Above all, people who take murder requests shouldn’t make it so obvious because then the client and themselves become endangered.”

“So, are you saying that they deliberately tried to make it look like a murder, no matter who looked at it?”

“That’s right. This is just speculation. There are two main reasons why it has to look like a murder: either the death of the deceased must become a hot topic as a murder case itself, or someone must be framed. In this case, I think it was both. And the person who had to be framed was me.”

It’s a bit difficult to talk about Wooshin without getting worked up, so I have to keep a tight rein on myself.

The chat window was constantly scrolling, but I didn’t bother to check it because there were still people coming in to cause trouble.

I only confirmed that genuine viewers tended to sympathize with what I said.

“Also, the fact that framing me was very important to Mr. Seong can also be seen through the fake witness.”

[GganImaTtokka: So interesting;;;]

[SunginSuda: Wow, he speaks so well. So fun even though there’s no gag at allㅋㅋㅋ]

[Let’s get the handsome lawyer back on..: As expected.. our lawyer.. is good at everything…]

“Mr. Seong went to the trouble of mobilizing a fake witness to frame me as a suspect. Creating a fake witness is quite a labor-intensive task. He must have bought the witness’s cooperation with money, but even so, it’s not easy to keep someone’s mouth shut.”

Numerous cases I’ve encountered have already proven this.

There is always a gap somewhere in a fabricated witness’s testimony.

Whether it’s a logical inconsistency or a breakdown in agreement with the client.

That’s why buying a fake witness is a big risk.

“You never know when or how that witness will change his story, but Mr. Seong bought a fake witness and created a risk factor that he didn’t have to create. It’s a very unnecessary act unless you absolutely have to frame someone.”

[LemonBorrowingAndRepayingDebt: That’s true..]

[ParsongsongGyerantak: Didn’t they say that the witness is on the run right now?]

[Mr.Park: Yeah, they say that obstruction of official duties is being applied, and he’s not responding to the summons, and they can’t figure out where he is nowㅇㅇ]

[GiveMeMyCardValueCherry: He ran away because his lies were caughtㅋㅋㅋ]

“Even if there were no witnesses, I was supposed to meet the deceased at Hwagun Reservoir at that time, and I actually went to that place. So even if he didn’t buy a witness, I would have been a suspect. I actually was.

But Mr. Seong must have thought that wasn’t enough. I had to be the culprit for sure. So you can see that he additionally ordered Mr. Park to hide the weapon in my house. In fact, because of the traces left by Mr. Park, we were able to find out why the murder weapon came out of my house, so this should also be seen as something that was carried out while taking risks.”

“So, it’s not just that he was trying not to be a suspect, but that he was so desperate to make Attorney Cha the culprit, is that what you’re saying?”

“That’s right. Judging from the way things are going, I think he’ll argue that it’s not that he was trying to make me a murderer from the beginning, but that I was suitable to be a suspect because I was supposed to meet the deceased that day.”

“Is there no possibility that he’ll deny it altogether? Like, I never framed him, or something like that.”

To Jo Bong-joon’s question, Choi Jong-hyun added a point.

“Actually, regarding ordering them to put the murder weapon in the house, it’s more natural to argue that he did that because the atmosphere was already suspicious, so he thought, ‘I’m going to put the blame on that person, and I’ll be safe!’ He could argue that it’s true that he framed him, but it’s not because he had any specific reason to target Attorney Cha; he would have done it even if it wasn’t Attorney Cha. Something like that.”

“That’s right. He won’t say that he never framed him.”

“Hmm, I see.”

“But even that is strange. Rather than me—and I’m sorry to bring up the deceased’s past—but the deceased’s second son, Lee Se-hyung, was once a hot topic for verbally abusing his driver. Of course, that driver has retired, but there are other drivers, aren’t there? It would have been a little more natural to blame it on a familiar person, an ever-present driver.”

Rather than forcibly connecting the faint connection between me and Lee Jung-chan, it is much more natural to make the driver, who sees his face every day, the culprit.

Isn’t it already known that that family treats drivers harshly?

If they had framed him for committing the crime because of such accumulated animosity, it wouldn’t have been considered suspicious.

“It’s not that the driver who drove the deceased’s car that day had anything suspicious about him, but he has similar conditions to me. And it’s strange that the contract killer set the day I met the deceased as the day of the crime. Of course, the reservoir is a place where murder can happen, but it’s not like there are no people in the reservoir. I didn’t have much contact with the deceased, so I had no reason to meet him, but it just so happened that I had a reason to meet him at that time. It can only be seen as that they commissioned the murder with me in mind from the beginning.”

Even now, they are probably thinking about how to get Sung In-ho to confess.

Even if it’s not perfect, they’ll try to come up with the best excuse.

But I’m discussing all those options on the air.

With this, I can get two benefits.

First, if Sung In-ho adopts the option I mentioned, I can enjoy the effect as if my prediction came true.

Second, if they are conscious of this and deliberately choose a different option, it is a second-best option, so it will be a loss for them.

“As a result, if Mr. Seong committed the crime with the intention of framing me as the culprit, it’s because I was at least a thorn in Mr. Seong’s side…”

As I trailed off, Choi Jong-hyun said as if he had been waiting.

“And Wooshin is the one who considers Attorney Cha a thorn in his side, or more than that, is that what you mean? Because Go Sang-joon or his son Go Yoon-soo. Attorney Cha and Mr. Seong have no contact at all. If Go Yoon-soo’s chief of staff moved directly, it seems like it would have to be that level.”

“Since there is nothing clearly revealed yet, I can’t say for sure. But in the current situation, if Mr. Seong, who doesn’t even know me, is trying to ‘screw me over’ this much, we have to consider the possibility that external factors are at play.”

[KimSatgatSatgat: Wow, it’s so refreshing to hear you explain something that I was just vaguely thinking about with a very reasonable reason. I can’t really explain it, but I was just thinking that Wooshin must have done itㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[BongjoonLet’sGoToSchool: Lawyers are really different..]

Fortunately, it seemed that no one among the people who heard the explanation did not understand it well.

I tried to explain it step by step so that there would be no difficulty in understanding, and it was worth it.

The people who watched this broadcast will summarize what I said and post it here and there, as they have done before, and help my words spread again.

For example, I should call it a feeling like a bee carrying pollen.

“Thank you so much for your words. It’s an impromptu broadcast, but you’re really good at explaining things in an organized manner. I think that’s enough. I don’t think we should keep Attorney Cha for too long. We’re a little tired too. We’ll start wrapping up the broadcast. Attorney Cha, do you have anything else you’d like to say?”

“I would like to thank the viewers.”

“……That’s it?”

“Do I have to say more?”

“You have to say more.”

I had already been talking non-stop, so I had nothing to say.

But I felt like I knew what the two people who were staring at me with particularly shining eyes were expecting.

I drank the bottled water on the table to moisten my throat.

It wasn’t that I had nothing to say at all.

But I’m not sure if it’s what the viewers want to hear.

This incident was an attempt to kill me, not only by Wooshin, who targeted me, but also by the media.

Wooshin’s actions are nothing new, and I’ve already experienced them thoroughly, so there’s nothing to say, but the media certainly showed more than the carelessness I usually recognized.

I stared at the camera and opened my mouth.

“There is a cup called Gyeyeongbae [a type of wine glass]. If you pour more than 70% of the wine into the Gyeyeongbae, all the wine will flow out through the hole at the bottom. Today’s media is no different from a foolish person who keeps pouring wine into the Gyeyeongbae. For the sake of immediate profits, they are abandoning the public’s trust, which the media should value most. Soon, their glasses will be filled with more than 70% of wine, and the wine will flow out.”

No, maybe it’s already flowing out.

People will increasingly not believe the words of the media.

Therefore, in the near future, people who want to know the truth will trust the unverifiable rumors and the words of individuals who are from the media rather than them.

As a result, the era is approaching where the truth is gradually disappearing, and only the dregs of truth are floating around.

“The catchphrase of Iljung Daily is ‘The Voice of Truth.’ Other media outlets also have similar catchphrases. But in this incident that I experienced, no media outlet kept the catchphrase they put forward. Also, no media outlet told the truth. They were just in a hurry to say what seemed to be closest to the truth right now. They did not verify whether what they were trying to report was the real truth.”

It is dereliction of duty for the media not to verify the known truth.

Even using the fact that numerous internet media outlets would come in to transcribe while doing this broadcast was a way to use such dereliction of duty in reverse.

And I’m not the only one who uses this dereliction of duty in this way.

Nevertheless, they don’t think about fixing it.

But for something that is so derelict in its duties, the media has too much influence on the public.

“Non-media people, the public, do not have the time or the means to investigate and find out about events in every field, so they delegate that role to the media. In a way, the media is doing the public’s work for them. That’s why many media outlets express themselves as ‘the voice of the people’ and ‘the cry of the masses.’

But what about today’s media? It is nothing more than trash journalism that erodes the meaning of journalism by being caught up in sensational reporting competition and viewership competition. In this incident, I am a victim of that trash journalism. I was not only not protected, but I was also subjected to unnecessary ridicule and criticism by media companies that violated reporting guidelines in order to gain attention.”

If I didn’t have enormous assets, I would have been threatened with my livelihood because of this incident.

I couldn’t operate my office for two months, and even if I had operated it, my reputation would have been damaged, and no one would have come to my office to entrust me with a case.

The media’s behavior would have starved three people to death.

And if this behavior continues, the victims will not be three, but thirty, thirty thousand, or more.

“Do not distort the truth. And, do not cut and trim the truth under the guise of serving the people. No matter how monstrous the essence of the truth may be.”