In the face of no evidence, Shu Tinglan couldn't believe Xu Wei's facts just based on his dictation, so she continued to ask:
"Since you didn't kill the person, how do you know so many details? There were your footprints in the victim's home at that time, and the hemp rope that strangled the victim was also found in your home."
The footprints and hemp rope were all important evidence used by the case-handling agency at that time to convict Xu Wei.
At this time Xu's mother stopped crying and answered for Xu Wei
: "Lawyer Shu, 18 years ago, every household on our street had a pair of Jiefang brand cloth shoes, not just Xu Wei. Every household also had hemp rope, which was used to tie things and visit relatives during the New Year and holidays.
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Shu Tinglan looked at Xu Wei
: "Is that what your mother said?"
"Yes."
Shu Tinglan wrote it down again, and then asked
: "Why did you pass by the victim's house that night?"
"That night, I didn't pass by the victim's house at all. I was drinking with some friends in an abandoned factory. I had an alibi witness. I passed by her house the next morning because the guard was open.
It was open, so I just took a look inside out of curiosity." Just this one glance got me into trouble.
After a day of investigation, the people from the investigation agency got reports from neighbors who said that they saw Xu Wei poking his head in front of the victim's house early in the morning. He was sneaky and suspicious. Then the people from the investigation agency zeroed in on Xu Wei.
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"That being the case, when people from the investigation agency asked you where you were when the crime occurred, why didn't you tell them right away, instead of hesitating?"
"I said it later, because the night before, some friends and I were in the abandoned factory discussing stealing cables. My friends all went to steal cables, but I didn't go because I was afraid. I got up so early the next day,
I didn't sleep all night because I was worried that something might happen to them, so I got up early in the morning to inquire about it."
"When I was first arrested, I thought I was asking about stealing cables. Naturally, I couldn't betray my friends, so I didn't explain it clearly. When I later found out it was a murder case, I did, but no one believed it."
I see!
He hesitated and refused to say where he was on the night of the crime. He sneaked around the victim's house the next day and had the same shoes and hemp rope from the crime scene at home. All this led him to be the most suspected.
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Even though 18 years have passed, Xu Wei is still very excited when talking about the scene at that time
"I was wrongly accused. They kept interrogating me, beating me, and forcing me to confess. If I didn't admit to killing someone, I wouldn't be alive today. But now that the real murderer Wang has confessed his crime, why can't I be released?
Get out!" The long-term imprisonment made Xu Wei look dull. He didn't dare to look at Shu Tinglan when answering questions. Only when he said the last few words, his eyes flashed with the light of survival and freedom.
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Xu's mother kept crying and comforting her
: "Son, mom will definitely rescue you...Lawyer Shu will help us."
After being released from prison, Xu's mother has been very emotional. In the past few years, she has petitioned, hired lawyers, and sought media reports and attention, but in the end nothing happened. Now even the real murderer Wang has appeared, but she
Her son was imprisoned and still had nowhere to redress his grievances. Lawyer Shu was the life-saving straw for her and her son.
The case needs to be taken step by step. It is not easy to get the court to retry it. If it is retried, it would be an indirect admission of the existence of torture, interrogation, and forced confession 18 years ago, and also an indirect admission of the court's sentence.
It was an unjust, false and wrong case, which was a great challenge to their credibility. No one in the court was willing to take the lead in retrialing the case. They always dealt with Xu's mother in a pick-up-ball manner, and the lawyers in the process were changed one after another.
When Xu's mother came out of prison, she went straight to the court and lay down on the steps outside the court. She cried and howled a few times at first, but then she couldn't cry anymore and just lay down.
Shu Tinglan couldn't pull her or persuade her, and he was afraid that she would suffer from heatstroke lying like this, so he called Xiaoxin over. She stood under the scorching sun for a long time, and she was wearing black clothes, which made her very uncomfortable.
He absorbed the heat, his whole body was sweating, and the hair on his head was wet with sweat.