China News Service, Nanchang, August 20th telegram: The second instance of the Lao Rongzhi case was selected for the verdict: Both the prosecution and the defense submitted new evidence, Lao Rongzhi said that he was willing to do his best to compensate
China News Service reporter Li Yunhan Huashan
The second instance of the Lao Rongzhi case, which lasted for three days, ended on the afternoon of the 20th in the Jiangxi Higher People's Court, and the verdict will be pronounced on a scheduled date.
During the trial that day, the prosecution and defense submitted new evidence, and Lao Rongzhi expressed in court that he would try his best to compensate the victim's family.
The second instance of the Lao Rongzhi case, which lasted for three days, ended on the afternoon of the 20th in the Jiangxi Higher People's Court, and the verdict will be pronounced on a scheduled date.
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The prosecution and the defense submit multiple sets of new evidence
Prosecutors submitted several new sets of evidence during the trial that day, mainly including the testimony of Faziying's relatives, Lao Rongzhi's friends, mother and other witnesses, as well as part of the written evidence, with the intention of confirming Lao Rongzhi's previous confession in court that "by Faziying". rape, abortion for her” and other words trying to prove that she was coerced by Faziying was false.
Lao Rongzhi's defender also submitted multiple sets of new evidence. Two video evidences were intended to prove that "Lao Rongzhi is kind and does not love vanity", "Lao Rongzhi actively cooperates with arrests and has a good attitude", etc. He also submitted a public report. Objection to the independence of the handwriting identification process in the "Hefei Kidnapping and Murder Case".
Subsequently, the prosecution and defense conducted multiple rounds of cross-examination on the new evidence submitted.
After the cross-examination session is completed, the day's trial will enter the court debate session.
Prosecutors believe that the first-instance sentencing is appropriate and the defender recommends "remanding for retrial"
The defender pointed out in the court debate that Lao Rongzhi was a criminal tool of Faziying, which did not constitute intentional homicide and should not be held criminally responsible for the deaths of several victims.
In addition, the defender objected to some of the procedures in the first instance of the Lao Rongzhi case and suggested that the case be "remanded for retrial".
Prosecutors believe that Lao Rongzhi was not under mental control and coercion by Faziying, and there are multiple evidences to prove that Lao Rongzhi and Faziying conspired in many cases. It is recommended that the original judgment be upheld.
In addition, the prosecutor said that some of Lao Rongzhi's confessions in court were contradictory and inconsistent with objective facts.
The prosecutor pointed out that Lao Rongzhi had "selective amnesia", and gave an example that while saying that he was young and ignorant, Lao Rongzhi said that "if he did it by himself, he would not choose a crime with low IQ"; while saying that he was coerced by Faziying, The other side said that he and Faziying were "visiting the great rivers and mountains of the motherland";
Lao Rongzhi continued to deny the crime of "intentional homicide" in his self-statement, and said that he did not surrender because he "did not dare to face it". family members.
The second-instance trial of the Lao Rongzhi case lasted three days and the verdict will be announced
In the trial two days ago, both the prosecution and the defense expressed their opinions on the content of the pretrial meeting, and gave legal advice to laborers on four cases including the "Nanchang Extermination Case", "Wenzhou Rental House Murder Case", "Changzhou Kidnapping Case" and "Hefei Kidnapping and Murder Case". Rongzhi conducted interrogation and questioning, and presented and cross-examined relevant evidence.
More than 80 people from relatives of the victims, the appellant, media reporters, deputies to the National People's Congress, members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and people from all walks of life watched the trial by video.
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The reporter noticed that Lao Rongzhi called himself a "victim" many times during the court trial, and he covered his face and sobbed from time to time, saying that "the whole incident has made it difficult for me to sleep for so many years."
Because Lao Rongzhi overturned some of his previous confessions during the trial, it once caused a lot of controversy between the prosecution and the defense.
The first-instance judgment of the Nanchang Intermediate People's Court found that between 1996 and 1999, the defendants, Lao Rongzhi and Faziying (which had been judged in a separate case), conspired and divided the labor. Faziying committed violence, and successively committed 4 crimes of robbery, kidnapping and intentional homicide in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and Hefei City, Anhui Province, resulting in the death of 7 victims.
After the incident, Lao Rongzhi absconded with aliases such as "Shirley" and was arrested by the public security organs on November 28, 2019.
The second instance of the Lao Rongzhi case, which lasted for three days, ended on the afternoon of the 20th in the Jiangxi Higher People's Court, and the verdict will be pronounced on a scheduled date.
Photo by Jiangxi High Court
The second-instance trial of Lao Rongzhi's case ended at 18:00 on the same day, and the presiding judge said that the verdict would be announced at a selected date.
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