Antara Darah dan Hati: Dream Reality English Translation

Chapter 5 Part 1 "Preparation for Law Advocate"

POV Ilhan

VSI (Verenigde Staten van Indonesië), a place where all my Muslim brothers and sisters from other part of the world live. The Commonwealth of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is currently in a state of political turmoil due to the actions of Prime Minister Willem van Huizen who always makes controversial statements.

I don't know why and how such annoying human are still alive until now. What is clear is that he was cheating and rig the election result that even the native Dutch people knew but they couldn't do anything because the political power there is being held by Neo NSB-er people who plays the thread from behind the scenes.

Many Dutch people and some Dutch nobles do not like this but what can be done? Nobles and royals don't hold the real political power and even if they want to get into the world of politics, they must relinquish their aristocratic titles or ascend the throne to be the next monarchical leader. Many people are afraid of politics because they love something stable and false peace but not with me, not with mevrouw Sofia van Amsberg and not with the client that I'll defend in the court later.

Today I managed to get one of my clients out of prison, Muhamed Sokolovich. He was accused of vandalism and endangered mevrouw's life, fortunately she was present at the hearing as a witness and gave a statement that Muhamed had not committed anarchism or such which caused the presiding judge to decide that he was innocent. The same thing cannot be said to Karim Dawala Sokolovich, my other client.

I have never faced a situation where i have to defend a client that being accused of doing an immoral crime before. Not to mention the evidences that causes contradictions with each other where in one video the actor looked like him while the actor in the other video is mevrouw's fiance and both of those videos already spread on social media and the internet.

Two different pieces of evidence, two different potential perpetrators and one person who was a key witness who had confessed to me that she felt heer Vinno raped her but her statement would be difficult to be used in court because she never reported the horrendous event that fall upon her to the authorities.

Do you know why this is a problem? Under European and North American continental laws, as long as a person has never reported to the authorities that she was raped then the sexual intercourse that the person had done with another person is voluntary, which means both parties have no objections about the relationship that they have.

Not including mevrouw's status as one of the members of the royal family where arranged marriages between noble families is a common thing to do. No wonder it will be difficult for her because she also has not given any statement regarding the severance of his engagement with heer Vinno.

Actually, theren is an evidence in the form of screenshoots about the termination of their relationship is just that the problem that makes this even more complicated is, the court for immoral cases such as rape is a closed court to protect the honor of victims and defendants so only a handful of people can attend the hearing.

On the one hand this is a good thing because the public will not hear questions about sex and the like which are the privacy of the victim and the defendant and on the other hand, this can open a gap of fraud that can be committed by investigators who can add or remove evidence, prosecutor that may and can receives false testimony from individuals who are the victims or the perpetrators even from the judges themselves who may and can ignore the answers or questions given by lawyer and prosecutor.

Unfortunately, in this case mevrouw can only be a witness because the one who filed the lawsuit was heer Vinno for defamation of his good name by Karim because based on Karim's statement, he said that the investigators confiscated his communication device as evidence and what is worse is that somehow that inappropriate video between heer Vinno and mevrouw Sofia can be found in it when the investigator shows his device, forcing him to admit things he didn't do even if he refused.

There was actually an offer for Karim before the trial began. The offer was that if he pleaded guilty, he would get a shorter sentence with probation when he got out of prison and if he behaved well he could be free but I haven't told him the offer and the prosecutor who gave me the offer gave me 2 days to think about it.

So far, my conscience is still preventing me from telling my offer to my client because in the history of the legal world, such offers are often betrayed by those who make the offerings as what has happened in the case of Brian Banks where he was accused of rape and his lawyer told him to accept the offer of a shorter sentence so long as he acknowledges his guilt but it turns out that the sentence that he received is longer than what he has promised.

Damn, I have to get an assistant lawyer right away because the prosecutor I face is also a Neo NSB-er or rather a Neo Nazi because he came from Germany. Huuuft... Laa hawla wa laa quwwata Illa billaah.

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* Trivia

Film source for Karim's case.

Marshall a black lawyer in 40's USA who defend a defendant named Joseph for the false accusation of raping his employer.

Another movie that become the source of the court scene. Brian Banks. a story about false rape accusation of the defendant named Brian Banks and his struggle to appeal with a lawyer who made an institution to return and clear the good name of those who received prison sentences for crimes they did not commit.