Chapter 988 In Hawaii (End)
The Honolulu Courthouse is a three-story building in the shape of a U-shaped U-shaped building, with white walls and red roofs in a typical tropical plantation style. There are still several tall palm trees in the middle courtyard.
From the columns on both sides of the courtyard corridor, you can see some modified Greek style. Although it is not as magnificent as the 10 Corinthian marble columns in front of the New York Supreme Court, it is also quite local.
Just as Danny had arranged on the phone before, the HPD police officers stood in a row in front of the court. When they saw the Ford F150 with flashing lights braked and stopped at the door of the court, they all saluted.
Compared with the mainland, the Hawaiian Islands, as the command center of the old US Pacific theater and the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet, have been stationed with more than 60,000 US soldiers and nearly twice as many military dependents.
At the same time, it is also a holy place for tourism and recuperation. Coupled with its own extremely strict gun control law, the public security situation is second to none in the United States.
The household gun ownership rate here is less than 10%, and most of them are pistols. The number of gun-related casualties each year is less than 100. It can be said that Jack has increased this data by several percentage points by himself by coming here for a vacation.
Therefore, even the serious crime team such as "Five-O" will not carry "heavy firepower" such as assault rifles on daily operations. The shotgun in Cheng Hao's hand before was the only long gun Jack had seen so far.
Similarly, although the HPD police officers deployed around the court at this time were stationed every three steps and every five steps, they were not fully armed. In fact, because the weather was too hot, most of them did not even have bulletproof vests.
Perhaps because of this reason, when these police officers saw the four people getting off the F150, they all had unconcealed surprise in their eyes.
Danny and Cheng Hao were still normal. Although the two people wearing bulletproof vests were also very hot, they did not look embarrassed, but Jack and Julie seemed to be a little eye-catching.
After trudging through the tropical jungle for most of the day, Julie's thin shirt had already become rags. If it weren't for the bulletproof vest that Jack put on her, her beauty would have been exposed.
Jack was even more exaggerated. He rolled in the mud before, and took off his shirt to make it easier to bandage his wounds. Now he got out of the car with a bandage wrapped around his waist. His well-defined muscles were particularly conspicuous in the sun. At first glance, he looked like a governor who had just fought with a predator.
The four of them trotted into the court. A beautiful female prosecutor had been waiting in the corridor. When she saw Julie appear, the tension on her face was obviously relaxed at once.
However, when her eyes fell on Jack, she was stunned. She opened her mouth and forgot what she wanted to say for a moment.
"Prosecutor Roberts?" Cheng Hao obviously knew the female prosecutor and greeted her.
"Ah!" The female prosecutor came back to her senses, and with great difficulty she took her eyes off Jack and nodded to Julie, "I have spare shoes and clothes in my car, come with me, we have to prepare."
Julie turned around and hugged Jack, murmuring words of gratitude, "Thank you Jack, thank you for everything you have done for me, you are my hero."
"Okay, it's okay, it's okay, go change clothes first, I'll wait outside."
Jack comforted the girl, watched her leave with the female prosecutor, and found a bathroom nearby to wash up briefly.
Both Danny and Cheng Hao were much smaller than Jack, and in the end they had to borrow a spare shirt from the police officer on duty outside to get him out of the embarrassment of being stared at from time to time.
Danny patted Jack's shoulder with emotion, "It's really unexpected that the guy who was as thin as a wooden pole at the beginning actually..."
Before he finished his sigh, Cheng Hao's mobile phone rang and interrupted his words. Kono's anxious voice could be heard by the two people next to him without turning on the hands-free function.
"The facial recognition program has produced results. The scavenger is an assistant attorney in Allen Brenner's legal team, a blonde woman, five feet seven inches (170 cm), and she should be in the court now."
"Shit!" The three of them were shocked, and they all saw horror in each other's eyes.
"I'll look along the corridor, you go to the prosecutor's office and the court, and notify the police outside." Jack turned and rushed to the direction where Julie and the prosecutor had left not long ago.
Unfortunately, he underestimated the size of the court, and this was not the court in New York or Los Angeles that he was familiar with. He ran around the second floor and asked several staff members but couldn't find out where Julie and the prosecutor were.
Just when Jack was anxious, Kono, who had just arrived, appeared at the stairs and shouted to him, "Jack, here!"
At this time, in the southeast corner of the court, Prosecutor Roberts and Julie, who had just changed into a clean formal dress, were led into a conference room. The blonde woman holding a memo made a gesture of invitation to them with a fake smile.
"Where is the chief defense lawyer you mentioned? What kind of plea bargain are you going to propose?" The female prosecutor looked at the woman with a strange smile with a puzzled look on her face.
This woman had been following Allen Brenner's defense team as an assistant lawyer. Just now, when she was taking Julie to the court waiting area, she stopped the two and said that the client intended to plead guilty and provide a list.
The female prosecutor did not suspect anything, and after a brief discussion with Julie, she planned to listen to the specific conditions proposed by the other party first.
At present, Allen Brenner has more than one case on his hands. No matter what conditions they put forward, as long as he can be sent to prison first, there are two felony murder charges against HPD police officers and attempted murder charges against federal agents waiting.
But if the other party can take the initiative to confess the names of some leaders of the Baha drug cartel, it will be an unexpected gain, so the female prosecutor gladly accepted the other party's proposal.
The female assistant lawyer said that the chief defense lawyer was waiting for the two in the conference room, but after entering the room, there was no one inside. Before the female prosecutor realized that something was wrong, Julie had already frowned subconsciously.
"Wait a minute, he will be here soon." The blonde woman put the file in her hand on the table, with the cover of the table, pulled up her suit skirt sideways, and pulled out a pistol with a silencer from the root of her legs and pointed it at the two.
At this critical moment, accompanied by a hurried sound of footsteps, Kono and Jack finally arrived in time.
Kono, who was in the front, grabbed the woman's right hand holding the gun and twisted her gun off. Jack, who was following behind, stopped on the spot with a sudden brake and put his half-drawn pistol back in.
Because he had nothing to do at the moment, Jack kicked the pistol off the ground and stepped back several steps to make enough space.
The two women were already wrestling together. The blonde woman was no match at all. It seemed that she had not received any systematic fighting training except for using a gun. She just scratched her face and pinched her neck.
On the other hand, although Kono was a little thin, he had obviously received formal police training. He used every move in a methodical manner and easily suppressed the opponent.
When Danny and Cheng Hao hurried over, they just saw Kono kick the blonde woman to the ground with a beautiful side kick.