Chapter 182: Promoting Case Retrials
At this time, Mu Shuguang was holding a cup of warm tea in his hand, standing quietly on his balcony like a sculpture, looking down at the community activity center square downstairs that was more than 20 meters high. There, there were a few children as young as eight or nine years old, chasing and frolicking.
Mu Shuguang thought that the children were so innocent, unpolluted by fame and fortune, their hearts were pure, and their nature was kind. But what about the hearts of Cheng = people, selfishness and hypocrisy, greed for vanity, and even insidious and vicious.
How he hopes that this world will be harmonious, full of positive energy, without deceit, and without hatred and framing of people.
He is such an honest and kind person. It is precisely because of this integrity and kindness that he has been driven to promote the retrial of Feng Tianyu's case in various ways. In the process of promoting the retrial of the case, he was subjected to tremendous resistance and pressure from all sides, but he always stood tall like a tall aspen in the cold sword and wind knife.
Now that Feng Tianyu has regained his freedom and the law has given him justice, he is very happy because he feels that he has done something very meaningful. In a sense, this is a progress in the administration of justice and a demonstration of the authority of the law.
In everything he does, he demonstrates the excellent qualities of a qualified, pragmatic prosecutor who is not afraid of power. He has always considered prosecutors to be a sacred and noble profession. The people have given you rights, and you must firmly establish the awareness of "justice for the people," perform the duty of legal supervision in accordance with the law, ensure judicial fairness, and maintain social harmony and stability.
He has such a strong consciousness, in fact, he was influenced by his father, who was a judge, since he was a child, and he is determined to become a legal worker when he grows up, hoping to contribute to society and the country like an honest and pragmatic father. Although his father died in his sophomore year of high school, his charisma has always influenced him. So he resolutely applied for the law major during the college entrance examination.
It was with this good intention that he worked very hard during his studies, accumulated a lot of legal knowledge, and laid a solid foundation for his career.
After graduating, he actively participated in the National Unified Judicial Examination, and after successfully passing it, he obtained a legal professional qualification certificate issued by the Ministry of Justice.
His first job was as an assistant at a local law firm.
Because of his knowledge of the law and his ability to debate, he quickly stood out and became a full-fledged lawyer a year later.
After becoming a lawyer, he strictly abided by professional ethics and practice discipline, conscientiously performed his duties, was not corroded by money worship, and insisted on practicing in accordance with the law, impartially, and honestly.
After becoming a full-fledged lawyer, Mu Shuguang wants to be conscientious and work hard to become a well-known lawyer in the future.
If it weren't for Feng Tianyu's criminal case that greatly touched his heart and was determined to seek justice for Feng Tianyu, then he would definitely continue on the road of lawyer. It was precisely because of this incident that he resolutely chose to resign and decided to work in the procuratorate, and he wanted to use the public power in his hands to promote the retrial of the case.
Why did he think Feng Tianyu's verdict was unfair? It turned out that he learned that the court did not have enough evidence against the defendant for the crime he charged, and in this case, he should adhere to the principle of never suspecting the crime and declare the defendant not guilty in accordance with the law, but the defendant was sentenced to a suspended death sentence, how could he feel at ease?
He still remembers his mixed feelings when he heard the news of Feng Tianyu's sentencing. He and his new wife went to the United States for six months of further study at their own expense. On the day he returned, he heard from his mother that his classmate Feng Tianyu was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for committing rape and murder. At that time, he was taken aback, Feng Tianyu was crazy, how could he do such a stupid thing to break the law and commit crimes!
He knew that the presiding judge of this case was his father-in-law Wang Yueyang, so he went to inquire about the specific circumstances of his father-in-law's case.
Wang Yueyang told him that Feng Tianyu had indeed committed a rape and murder case, and the evidence was conclusive, but Nian had a good attitude in admitting his guilt, and took the initiative to confess the facts of the crime after he was brought into the case, so he was sentenced to a suspended sentence.
At that time, Mu Shuguang believed his father-in-law, hated Feng Tianyu's behavior, and hated how he could make friends with a scum like him in the first place.
However, one day two years later, he had a drink with a friend who had just left the procuratorate, and this friend, perhaps because he had drunk too much, told him some little-known stories about the procuratorate's review and prosecution of Feng Tianyu, and suspected that the public security organs had illegally collected evidence from the suspect.
Mu Shuguang was very surprised, he didn't expect the public procuratorate and law to collude to create this unjust case. Later, he accessed Feng Tianyu's case file through his connections, and there was indeed only trace evidence such as the suspect's confession, the testimony provided by witnesses, and handkerchiefs, and there was no objective evidence such as sperm spots and DNA tests.
Mu Shuguang questioned his father-in-law why the court had to make a hasty decision because the chain of evidence in this case was incomplete.
Wang Yueyang was at a loss for a while, he never thought that his son-in-law would go to check Feng Tianyu's case file, and he knew that he was wrong, so he had to vaguely say that this matter had passed, so he didn't want to pursue the right and wrong.
Mu Shuguang is very angry, can he ignore the facts in order to pursue "efficiency in handling cases"? What is the reason for a judge to make a hasty judgment with a single thought, and let the innocent suffer unjustly and suffer from prison?
Thinking of Feng Tianyu suffering in a dark cell, Mu Shuguang was very sympathetic to his plight and wanted to immediately push for a retrial of the case, but he understood that he was just a small lawyer, and the lawyer only had the rights prescribed by law, not public power, and it was quite difficult to promote the retrial of the case, and his arms could not twist his thighs, and he might even end up in vain. If he becomes a prosecutor, the situation may be better, and he can file a protest with the court that tried Feng Tianyu in accordance with the law and ask for a retrial. So he quickly quit his job as a lawyer and passed the examination to enter the procuratorate, where he proposed to be a prosecutor.
Before entering the procuratorate, Mu Shuguang did not tell anyone that he wanted to push for a retrial of the case; In the more than a year that he worked as an assistant prosecutor after joining the procuratorate, he also did not tell anyone that he wanted to push for a retrial.
Although he didn't tell anyone, he was thinking about the case all the time. In fact, there is a reason why he deliberately concealed his intentions for a long time, and the reason is that he thinks that he is a soft-spoken person, and the time is not yet ripe, and if he acts hastily, it may be more difficult than he imagined, and even the development of the situation is out of his control.
Half a year after he was promoted to a full-fledged prosecutor, he publicly stated that he wanted to push for a retrial of Feng Tianyu's case.
Although he had done a lot of preparatory work before, he still had many difficulties, encountered a lot of trouble, and was questioned a lot in the process of promoting the retrial of the case.
The first resistance came from his wife, father-in-law and mother-
His wife threatened him and said that if you insist on pushing for the retrial of Feng Tianyu's case, then we will divorce;
My father-in-law threatened him, saying that if you insist on pushing for a retrial of Feng Tianyu's case, I will ask the president of your procuratorate to find an excuse to ask the Standing Committee of the People's Congress to remove you from your position;
His mother threatened him and said, "If you insist on pushing for a retrial of Feng Tianyu's case, I will not recognize you as a son."
Secondly, some relevant leaders and case-handling personnel of the procuratorial organs, public security organs, and courts all tried their best to prevent him from pushing for the retrial of the case.
There were even a few times when he was followed by unknown people, and after he found out, the person who followed him actually threatened him not to ask about Feng Tianyu's case again, otherwise he would be good-looking.
Mu Shuguang fell into a difficult situation, he knew that his original idea was too simple, his opponent was not a person, but a group with common interests, he felt that he was a bit of a grasshopper shaking the tree; However, there are also many people with a sense of justice who support him, encourage him, and even participate in the activities of the case, which is what he feels most gratified about.
In fact, after he was strongly opposed by his relatives in the process of promoting the retrial of the case, he also had the idea of giving up, after all, family affection cannot be separated; However, when he thought that his good friend Feng Tianyu was enduring a long prison sentence, his heart was very uncomfortable, and he couldn't sit idly by.
He knew that only by convincing his relatives to agree with his approach could he calmly do this well. But is it that easy to convince? He knew that his wife and mother's opposition to his promotion of the retrial of the case was actually influenced by his father-in-law, who estimated that his father-in-law had done a lot of ideological work to them, and even did not rule out the means of coercion; He knew that if the court retried the case in accordance with the trial supervision procedures, then it would prove that the court judgment of that year was wrong, so for his father-in-law, he would definitely feel that he would slap himself in the face, and he could not bear it.
Although he knew that the ideological work of his relatives was difficult to do, he still had to do it, because he was already determined to push for a retrial of the case.
He gradually persuaded his mother and wife to come to his side. However, the father-in-law couldn't convince him, as soon as he mentioned the retrial of the case, he roared at Mu Shuguang, and he refused to admit his mistake.
The direct intervention of important local public prosecutors, procuratorates, and law officials and relevant case-handling personnel in the case has made it difficult to activate the error correction mechanism, and the promotion of the retrial of the case has been temporarily put on hold.
However, the situation took a turn for the better in the second half of 2013 - Lin Zhengnan, the main police officer who undertook the "Peach Blossom Forest Female Corpse Case" that year, was sentenced for taking bribes; The media follow-up report on Feng Tianyu's case caused an uproar and continued to ferment, and Mu Shuguang took the opportunity to build momentum and launched a chase with his opponent.
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