The temperature in the Hanchuan area already reaches about 30 degrees Celsius in June. [Full text reading]

Under the condition of this temperature, Ban Ban was wearing a blue long-sleeved uniform, with strict discipline buttons, and a big cap on his head, and the three judges of the Hanchuan Court sitting in the courtroom were soaked with sweat on their chests and backs, and even the small part of the big cap had obvious sweat stains.

Wang Shuhui, like most of the workers at the Hanchuan farm, wore short-sleeved overalls and sat in the open auditorium of the Hanchuan courthouse. Because the auditorium is a semi-open-air area with an awning on it, unlike the formal trial area inside, you can feel some breeze here, and it feels relatively cool.

Today, Wang Shuhui came to observe the court trial with Xiao Hou, a young officer from the communication office of the farm headquarters.

Originally, Feng Dingshan, the party secretary of the farm, and Chen Song, the director of the farm, wanted to accompany Wang Shuhui, but Wang Shuhui took them away on the pretext of not disturbing the local work, leaving only Xiao Hou at the communication office to accompany him as a helper to introduce the situation.

The trial took place in the evening. The trial was scheduled at this time, on the one hand, so as not to delay the normal working hours of the people's assessors, and on the other hand, mainly because this time was after work, so all the local people who were willing to come to hear the trial would have time to hear the trial.

Hanchuan Farm is a large farm with a total population of more than 10,000 people. The farm is generally divided into four areas according to the direction: southeast, northwest, and northwest. The two cases to be tried today took place in the East Division and the other in the North Division, but the court in charge of the trial work was the court of the South Branch of the Farm, and both the judges and the randomly selected people's assessors were from the South Branch.

Sixteen years old this year, Xiao Hou, who has just graduated from the middle-level junior army, is in the age group of worshipping big shots. Being able to accompany Wang Shuhui, the top leader of the Baath Party and the mentor of all Baath Party members, to conduct research work together, Xiao Hou's heart was full of happiness.

Careful Xiao Hou found that unlike everyone sweating profusely, Wang Shuhui, who was sitting in the crowd, did not have a trace of sweat on his head. Because he didn't know that Wang Shuhui was affected by the radiation of the crossing gate, so he had a certain mutation in physiology, Xiao Hou couldn't help but think: "The amazing character may be different in any place." ”

Wang Shuhui did not know much about legal work. In the more than 20 years he has lived in modern society, he has had no contact with any legal department at all, and he has little interest in the legal profession itself.

However, Wang Shuhui knows that the law is an expression of the will of the ruling class, a tool to safeguard the interests of the ruling class, and to rule the ruled class.

Under the guidance of this ideology, the laws enacted by the Baath Party government, which adopts the people's democratic system, must first distinguish the nature of the contradictions. Anything that is a contradiction among the people will be brought to the Baath Party's courts. The trial process must involve the participation of people's assessors. Anything that is a contradiction between friend and foe does not need to go through the courts, and it will be handled directly by the Baath Party in accordance with its policy.

So from this point of view, all cases that go to the Ba'ath Party courts for trial are basically internal contradictions among the people. Although the handling of contradictions between friend and foe is also open. But those public dispositions are not undertaken by the courts, and the name is not a "case trial" but a criticism meeting.

The two cases heard by the Hanchuan Farm South District Court today are also internal contradictions among the people. One is the peach-colored case that the people are more "happy to see", the case of women cheating. One is a case related to everyone's interests, a commercial dispute case.

In contrast to the government trial in feudal society, the Baath Party's court trial has two characteristics. One is that all trials must be held in public. Moreover, the Baath Party has specific regulations on the number of people to be heard. Ordinary people attending the hearing must be seated as observers. In other words, the number of observers at the trial of a case shall not be less than 200.

Another feature is that both the defendant and the plaintiff must have an advocacy representative. This defense agent may be chosen by the plaintiff and the defendant themselves. However, except in public prosecution cases, the defense agent must not be a civil servant or other cadre with a position, and the defense agent must have a primary school diploma or higher or relevant academic certification. In the absence of an agent for the plaintiff and the defendant, the court will appoint the appropriate staff member to act as the agent for the plaintiff and the defendant.

The process of adjudicating the case is not that complicated.

First of all, the plaintiff's defense agent will give a briefing in court. The defence agent on the defence side of the defendant then gives a presentation in court.

After that, the adjudicators will sort out the whole picture of the case based on the content introduced by both parties, introduce the relevant legal provisions to the people's assessors and the public who are observing, and then the defense attorneys of the plaintiff and the defendant will conduct arguments.

After that, the people's assessors will leave the courtroom and go to a special room to make a judgment and vote based on the information provided by the judges.

Finally, the people's assessors return to the courtroom, and the representatives selected by the people's assessors themselves announce the results of the trial.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the case goes to court, there will be no reversal.

First of all, once the case enters the court, it means that the judges have determined that the case is indeed illegal.

Second, if more than two-thirds of the people's assessors find that the defendant has not violated the law, the trial process will be suspended. The court will temporarily seal the case and then organize new people's assessors to hear it again.

If the same case is found not to be illegal twice in the verdict of three people's assessors, the case will be sent to a higher court for trial.

However, people's assessors only have the power to determine that civil cases are not illegal. In the trial of all criminal cases, people's assessors can only choose the one with the most votes from among the multiple dispositions given by the adjudicators based on the arguments of the defense representatives of both sides.

In other words, although people's assessors have the right to participate in the trial of cases, their power is limited in both civil and criminal cases. In particular, in the trial of criminal cases, people's assessors do not have the power to determine whether the defendant is guilty or not, but only have the power to choose what degree and level of punishment the defendant will impose.

From this point of view, it seems that the people's jury system is a superficial article. But let's not forget that the Baath Party uses the people's representation system in all its institutions.

That is to say, even in the public security organs and the procuratorial organs, when the public security organs arrest criminal suspects, and when the procuratorial organs initiate prosecutions, the people's representatives are involved in these two links