The Paper learned from a number of authoritative channels on April 4 that due to the application of the defender, the Chongqing sister and brother death case, which was originally scheduled to start the second trial on April 3, was postponed to April 4 (this Thursday).
On March 3, The Paper learned that the Chongqing Municipal High Court held a pretrial conference on the death of the Chongqing sister and brother on March 28. At the pretrial conference, the second trial of the case was tentatively scheduled for April 3.
Chen Meilin, the mother of the two murdered children, said on March 3 that she learned from the judge in charge of the second instance of the case that a pretrial conference was held on March 28, and the entire pretrial conference began at 3:27 a.m. and ended at 9:6 p.m.
An authoritative source previously told The Paper that the trial of the second instance is tentatively scheduled for April 4, because the defendant's defender has applied, resulting in a short postponement of the trial time.
A number of authoritative channels confirmed to The Paper on April 4 that the Chongqing Municipal High Court did not hold a trial on April 3 to hear the case, and the second trial was scheduled for April 4, and the defendant's family has received the notice of trial.
Ms. Chen said she had not yet received notice from the Chongqing High Court for a second-instance trial of the case, but people had previously told her that even if the April 4 trial was postponed, the postponement would not be too long.
At about 2020:11 p.m. on November 2, 3, Xue Xue (pseudonym, 30 years old) and Yangyang (pseudonym, 4 year old) who lived on the 15th floor of Unit 2, Jinjiang Huafu, Nan'an District, Chongqing City, fell to their deaths. After investigation by the police of Chongqing's Nan'an District, the fall was an intentional homicide case, and Zhang Bo, the father of two young children, and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen were suspects.
The first-instance trial of the Fifth Intermediate Court of Chongqing Municipality held that Zhang Bo and Ye Chengchen's behavior broke through the bottom line of human ethics, morality and law, seriously deviated from the core socialist values, and had an extremely bad social impact. Moreover, the motives of the two were particularly despicable, the subjective malignancy was extremely deep, the methods of crime were particularly cruel, the circumstances of the crime were particularly bad, and the consequences and crimes were extremely serious. Ye Chengchen and Zhang Bo have the same status and role in the joint crime. On the morning of December 2021, 12, the Fifth Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality sentenced Zhang Bo and Ye Chengchen to death in the first instance, depriving them of political rights for life.
After the first-instance verdict was pronounced, the two defendants appealed to the Chongqing Municipal High Court. The Paper previously reported that after the appeal, Zhang Bo and Ye Chengchen both reappointed defenders. At the same time, Zhang Bo suddenly wrote successive letters to Chen Meilin on the eve of the second trial to express repentance. But Chen Meilin wrote back that if Zhang Bo and Ye Chengchen needed to atone for their sins, they would calmly accept the first-instance verdict and die quietly.
The Paper reporter Xie Yinzong