Although Wan Xudong signaled Han Guang to stop talking with his eyes, he still bluntly pointed out the flaw in Shen Hongyi's words: "Director Shen, I don't agree with your idea. Let's leave it aside for the moment by whose hands Zhang Zongwei died. Fuck, there are Ma Ling’s fingerprints on the cane gun, it was because she pulled out the cane gun after she was stabbed.”
Shen Hongyi was stunned and smiled awkwardly: "Yes, I overlooked it. In short, this case is quite complicated. We must be cautious. Although we cannot judge everyone by simple dualism, what are Zhang Zongwei and Zhan Ziyu like? A person, and what kind of things Liu Handong has done, I think everyone has a strong balance in their hearts. To eliminate harm for the people, we cannot ignore the law. No matter who you are or what your background is, everyone is equal before the law."
After he finished speaking, he nodded and indicated that the speech was over. Wan Xudong took Han Guang out and blamed him: "What happened? The leader cannot step down. No wonder you have been able to become a captain until now."
Han Guang shrugged: "Shen Ju is a nice person, but he is too bookish and has never been on the front line. He takes things for granted."
Wan Xudong said: "Don't worry about whether he has been on the front line or not. He is now the executive deputy. We all have to listen to his orders. Did you hear the meaning of the leader's words just now? He is trying to protect Liu Handong."
Han Guang said: "It's not him who has the final say whether to bail or not, it's the court's decision."
"Are you stupid?" Wan Xudong was about to say something when several people came across from him, and he stopped talking.
After coming out of the Public Security Bureau, Wan Xudong rushed back to the family area of the provincial department, only to see Wang Xing squatting at his door.
"Wang Xing, what are you doing here?" Wan Xudong asked.
"Wan Chu, I'm here to inquire about Liu Handong's case." Wang Xing stood up, entered the house with Wan Xudong, sat down on the sofa, and while the other party was pouring tea, he took out an envelope from his bag and stuffed it on the sofa. In the gap.
Of course, Wan Xudong would not disclose the investigation of the case, but instead scolded Wang Xing. Wang Xing playfully said a few words to take care of him, and that he was his buddy before leaving.
After the person left, Wan Xudong discovered the thin envelope with twenty 500 euro banknotes stuffed inside.
"This kid..." Wan Xudong thought for a moment and put the envelope away.
After Han Guang returned to the provincial guest house, he also received a call to inquire about the progress of the case, but he refused.
…
Liu Xiaoyong and Shuiqin returned to Jiangbei. They sent the old man home first. Shuiqin returned to the dormitory of the Coal Machinery Factory. This was the scene of the murder. The floor and walls were still stained with blood. The security door fell aside. Shuiqin fetched a basin of water. , picked up the mop and mopped the floor. The only house in the family was now a haunted house. It could not be sold, and no one dared to rent it. The only option was to live in it by myself.
Mopping on the floor, Shui Qin's tears fell to the ground. Why was she so miserable? Her husband died at a young age. When she got old, something happened to her second husband and son. Without a man in the family, it was like the sky had collapsed. I felt There is nothing to pursue in life, but I have to hold on to survive, otherwise there will be no one to take care of my husband and son who are serving their sentences. They are both serious murders, and the light sentence will be twenty years in prison. At that time, I was already seventy years old. Take it slow.
Suddenly she heard a noise behind her and turned around to see He Jian standing at the door with an unshaven beard and a plastic bag in his hand.
Shuiqin rubbed her eyes, suspecting that she had seen it wrong.
"I came back. The procuratorate determined that it was self-defense and would not prosecute." He Jian said with a smile.
Shuiqin said calmly: "Just come back and change your clothes. I'll buy whatever dishes you want to eat tonight."
He Jian entered the room and grabbed the mop: "You rest first, I'll buy groceries later." He mopped the floor hard as he said that.
Shuiqin sat on the chair and stared blankly at He Jian mopping the floor, and suddenly started crying.
He Jian didn't try to dissuade her. He sat beside her in silence. He waited until she was done venting before saying, "Don't worry, Dongdong will be fine."
Shuiqin wiped away her tears and said that you just came back, rest first while I go buy groceries.
Carrying the basket, I walked down to a nearby vegetable market. On the newsstand was today's newspaper. On the second page, there was a bold black headline: "Retired SWAT officer bravely fights gangsters, seriously injured and dying!"
Shui Qin felt excited. She bought a newspaper and read it hurriedly. The report was actually about her son. It was said that three gangsters kidnapped a weak woman to an abandoned construction site with the intention of killing her. Liu, a former special police officer who was guarding the construction site, was killed.
Someone stopped him, and after a desperate struggle, he worked with the police who arrived in time to subdue the gangsters. After rescue efforts failed, two gangsters died, one was seriously injured, and Liu and his girlfriend were seriously injured...
"Boss, I bought as many copies of today's evening newspapers as there are." Shui Qin bought all thirty evening newspapers from the newsstand and didn't even bother to buy groceries. She hurried home to share the good news with He Jian.
People of her age are still quite superstitious about newspapers and media. They believe that newspapers have given their son a certain character. The court must have the same attitude. Liu Handong did not kill intentionally, but acted bravely.
When I got home, I found a strange woman talking to He Jian in the house. When Shui Qin came back, the woman introduced herself as Bai Na, a reporter from the TV station. She was a colleague and friend of Liu Handong. She took care of all the defense matters.
The lawyer relied on his connections to litigate the case, so Liu's family didn't have to worry about it.
Shuiqin was grateful and sent Baina away, saying to He Jian: "With your help, there is hope for Dongdong."
He Jian also said that this white reporter was not simple, and that he was acquitted because of others' help.
…
Liu Handong was seriously injured and stayed in the hospital until the first court hearing two and a half months later. It was already the middle of winter, and the dripping water turned to ice. There were a few reporters standing in front of the Omi Intermediate People's Court. In fact, the case was in various places.
Under the suppression of relevant departments, the social impact is not great. After all, it involves too many dark sides and it is not suitable to be made public. In fact, this trial is not open to the public. Only family members and reporters from certain media can participate.
A prison car drove into the court. Liu Handong was taken out of the car by the bailiffs and escorted into the court. The door of the criminal court was slowly closed and the trial began.
The prosecutor charged Liu Handong with two counts, illegal possession of a gun and intentional homicide. The indictment was very long and elaborated on Liu Handong's past experience. He was disciplined in the army, retired early, disobeyed orders in the SWAT team, and was fired.
once a few times
He was detained by security for the second time, which shows that the defendant had bad character and was violent. On the night of the incident, when the danger was eliminated, he still wounded Zhan with a gun and killed Zhang. He should be punished with intentional homicide.
, recommending that the court sentence the prisoner to death.
As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar in the auditorium. The prosecutor ignored the facts and actually charged Liu Handong with intentional homicide. However, if you think about it carefully, you can understand that although Zhan Shusen was removed from office, his roots are deep and his relationship with politics and law is still there.
It couldn't be easier to take revenge on Liu Handong.
Liu Handong's defense lawyer was a well-known lawyer hired by Baina from Beijing who specializes in criminal cases. After two months of preparation, he had very sufficient materials. He confronted the prosecutors head-on and listed Liu Handong's heroic deeds in the army one by one.
He had achieved third-class meritorious services and had many face-to-face confrontations with criminals while working in the SWAT team and the anti-narcotics brigade. It can be seen that he was by no means the vicious criminal described by the prosecutor. Moreover, at the crime scene, the defendant only passively defended himself and rescued the victims.
The kidnapped hostages thus clashed with the deceased...
Witnesses appeared in court one by one, and Xin Xiaowan came forward to testify that she was kidnapped by Zhan Ziyu and Wei Weihao, and was rescued by Liu Handong when she was about to be killed in an abandoned building. The police produced evidence, which was the GPS tracker in Xin Xiaowan's suitcase and the one in Zhan Ziyu's car.
It matches the tracker found there.
Moreover, the police also produced more conclusive evidence proving that Zhan Ziyu was hired by former mayor Jin Muchen to murder Xin Xiaowan and had caused a car accident that seriously injured innocent people. The case was handled separately.
The second person to appear in court, Ma Ling, was not charged by the prosecutor because the police determined that the real culprit who killed Zhang Zongwei was Liu Handong.
Ma Ling looked very bad. He confessed to the court that he received a call from Liu Handong that night and went to the European Garden construction site to meet him. Then these things happened. He did not know Zhan Ziyu, Wei Weihao, Zhang Zongwei, and Xin Xiaowan. He only shot and wounded Zhang Zongwei in self-defense.
, and then he fainted after being stabbed by him, and he didn’t know anything anymore.
The prosecutor was aggressive and asked Ma Ling: "Why are you going to the abandoned construction site so late? Aren't you a girl afraid?"
Ma Ling glanced at the prosecutor: "Liu Handong is my boyfriend. Why don't I go? What's so scary about it being late? Are you afraid of ghosts?"
There was another commotion in the auditorium. Everyone felt that the prosecutor was too low-level and kept asking stupid questions.
The prosecutor asked some more questions, but Ma Ling only said that he was too nervous at the time and couldn't remember clearly.
Police firearms expert and police academy teacher Zhang Yasen testified in court, confirming that the pistol held by Zhan Ziyu was a Czech-made CZ75 automatic pistol with excellent performance. The rifle was found to be intact and the number of firings did not exceed 300 rounds. The pistol held by Liu Handong was a civilian version of the Brazilian Ceramic Pistol.
The Ruth PT92 has been out of the factory for fifteen years. The rifling is severely worn. It has fired at least 20,000 rounds of bullets and has already entered a scrap state.
"According to the on-site investigation, Liu Handong and Zhan Ziyu were more than fifteen meters apart. This distance is the best shooting distance for pistols. Zhan Ziyu shot Liu Handong three times, all of them in vital points, indicating that he was determined to kill the other party, while Liu Handong only hit
Zhan Ziyu shot twice, one of which was blocked by a body armor, and the other shot hit the face, causing serious injuries. However, this shot was not a deliberate killing, but a random hit."
"Liu Handong is my student. This is his shooting report card at the police academy. If he wanted to kill Zhan Ziyu, he would not have missed so many shots." Zhang Yasen said.
The prosecutor protested that the witness's obviously tendentious testimony would mislead the court's decision.
The presiding judge accepted the protest.
The defense continued to present evidence. This time it was Zhang Zongwei's numerous crimes, as well as the ballistic comparison of the cane gun and the relationship between the murder of Zhang's mother (handled in a separate case) and Wei Weihao, proving that Wei Weihao was killed by Zhang Zongwei, and that Wei Weihao was killed by Zhang Zongwei.
The pistol held by Liu Handong was also owned by Zhang Zongwei.
The prosecutor said that Liu Handong still violated the criminal law by snatching Zhang Zongwei's gun and should be punished with the crime of theft and gun snatching. After effectively stopping Zhang Zongwei's behavior, he still stabbed the deceased's heart twice with a bayonet, causing death and should be punished with intentional homicide.
The defense stated that Zhang Zongwei was known as the most ruthless person in Omi. He was seriously injured and still escaped from police custody. He hid in the public and waited for revenge. He was shot several times and still ran away to kill people. The defendant could not keep calm in this situation, let alone judge whether the deceased was beyond the limit.
It is understandable that ordinary people would take necessary extreme measures due to their willpower and fighting capacity.
After a heated exchange of words and exchanges, the presiding judge announced a temporary adjournment and the collegial panel began deliberating.
Fifteen minutes later, the court reopened and the presiding judge read out the verdict.
Liu Handong was found guilty of illegal gun possession and sentenced to seven years in prison. He was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison, for a total of 14 years in prison.
There was an uproar in the gallery. The families of the defendant and the families of the dead and injured expressed their dissatisfaction with the verdict and wanted to continue to appeal.