Twenty years of Ji Ranbing's murder: The beautiful Qingdao girl Ji Ranbing happened to meet Peng Zengji, the biggest owner of electronic communication equipment in Taiwan Province. They got along for three years and had a son in the United States. The child was only five months old, and the mother and son were brutally killed. American police arrested Lin Liyun, Taiwan Province's wife of Peng Zengji, on suspicion of murder.
The verdict of this case:
On the morning of June 29th, 2112, in the 36th court of Orange County High Court, southeast of Los Angeles, the judge read out the verdict that had been delayed for eight years: because the lawyer of the defendant Lin Liyun reached a plea agreement with the prosecution lawyer, Lin admitted to deliberately killing Ji Ranbing's mother and son, plus a crime of using deadly weapons, so the court ruled that Lin Liyun was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment; However, considering that Lin has been detained for seven years since her arrest in 1994, she is eligible for bail. The court agreed that she would be released from prison in mid-autumn, and will be deported to Taiwan Province by the US Immigration Service in a few days.
Evil Love Shocks the Cross-Strait
The three trials of the murder case have come to an end. This bizarre case is actually a complicated extramarital tragedy, which is intertwined with love and hate, evil and deadly tricks, full of suspense and struggle. It has also aroused the opposition of overseas Chinese communities from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the overseas Chinese community in California, and triggered a fierce debate on the phenomenon of "keeping mistresses" of Taiwanese businessmen and marriage ethics. This case is no less than a Hollywood movie. In fact, some people have written it into a book called Overseas doomed love, and Hong Kong directors have made it into a movie called Lover's Lover ...
It's a love feud to be unreasonable
In p>1991, Ji Ranbing, a beautiful 23-year-old Qingdao girl, met Peng Zengji, a 58-year-old Taiwan Province businessman who worked as a public relations worker at Qingdao Dynasty Hotel. Peng Zengji is the big boss of Taiwan Province's electronic communication industry, with hundreds of millions of wealth, and has factories in mainland China, Taiwan Province, the United States and Malaysia, with a developed career. In addition to his pride, he has long been unable to bear the loneliness in his heart, and gradually forgot his wife Lin Liyun, who helped him start a business from scratch and worked hard together. Young and beautiful Ji Ranbing is not only beautiful, but also intelligent and capable, gentle and lovely, which makes Peng fall in love at first sight. And Ji Ranbing is also a girl with strong ambition, hoping to enjoy the cool with her back against the big tree and start a career. Soon, the two began an evil relationship that would eventually produce bitter results. There was no fire in the paper, and Peng Zengji's extramarital affairs were soon discovered by his wife Lin Liyun. Recalling the scene when the husband and wife loved each other and worked hard to start a business, Lin Liyun was furious. She put all her hatred on her husband's lover, Ji Ranbing. Lin Liyun repeatedly forced her husband and Ji Ranbing to cut off this disordered love, but nothing came of it. Under Peng Zengji's arrangement, at the end of 1991, Ji Ranbing became the secretary of the general manager of Peng's company in Shanghai. In 1992, Peng Zengji arranged for Ji Ranbing, who was pregnant, to come to California, USA, and lived a luxurious life without telling Lin Liyun. The following year, she moved into an apartment rented by Peng in Orange County, southeast of Los Angeles, and gave birth to a healthy and lovely baby boy named Ji Qiwei in March. This house is less than 5 kilometers away from another villa that Peng Zengji bought locally.
Who killed Ji Ranbing's mother and son
On August 8, 1993, Peng Zengji returned to Los Angeles from the mainland to visit Ji Ranbing and his five-month-old son Ji Qiwei. When he arrived in Orange County, Peng Zengji found that the door of the luxury apartment where Ji Ranbing lived was locked. He lingered at the door for eight hours and pushed the door in at eleven o'clock in the evening, only to find that Ji Ranbing and his mother were killed in the apartment! Ji Ran was stabbed in the body with 19 knives, lying dead on the sofa in the living room, covered in blood, with his eyes open and dying unsatisfied; The cruel murderer even refused to let go of five-month-old Ji Qiwei, stuffed his mouth with a T-shirt and covered his head with a blanket and pillow to suffocate him alive! This major murder shocked the local area and attracted the attention of the Chinese community on the west coast of the United States. Peng Zengji, who was extremely frightened, reported the case to the American police, and the orange county police immediately conducted a thorough and detailed investigation and evidence collection on this heinous major murder case. The police judged that the case occurred from 11: 11 pm on 17 to the early morning of 18, and ruled out the possibility of Peng Zengji's crime. Because the murderer in this case was premeditated murder and committed the crime with gloves, no direct evidence was left at the scene, which made the police's investigation and arrest work once in trouble. The French open is long, sparse and not leaking. The Orange County Police Department has the most advanced DNA testing instrument. The forensic doctor extracted saliva residue from a skin with bite marks on Ji Ranbing's left arm and conducted DNA testing. The result was consistent with the blood sample DNA of Peng's wife Lin Liyun, so the police decided that Lin Liyun was a murderer in this case.
The police also found that Lin Liyun came to Orange County from Taiwan Province three days before Ji Ranbing's mother and son were killed, and lived in Bie Ye, not far from Ji's apartment. When she was questioned by the police earlier, she insisted that she didn't know Ji's residence, but she failed the polygraph test. The police also found that Lin's left foot was injured. She lied that she had fallen, and said that her eldest son, who was studying in Los Angeles, could testify. In fact, her son's testimony said that she had not seen her mother fall. In order to find the murderer as soon as possible and get rid of the suspicion, Peng Zengji cooperated with the US police to persuade his wife Lin Liyun from Taiwan Province to return to the United States for a DNA test. On October 8, 1994, Lin Liyun was arrested. The orange county procuratorate immediately filed a lawsuit against Lin Liyun for murder. A protracted marathon lawsuit officially kicked off.
This is actually the Chinese version of the Simpson case. If we go through legal procedures outside the United States, I believe the result will be completely different.
On May 24th, 1994, the trial was held in the Orange County District Court, and the prosecution won. In August of the same year, the court ruled that Lin Liyun was guilty of intentional homicide. Prosecution evidence:
First of all, the DNA test results of bite marks on Ji Ranbing's left arm skin are consistent with Lin;
Secondly, only Lin Liyun has the motive to kill Ji Qiwei, a five-month-old baby.
Third, Lin Liyun has long held a grudge against Ji Ranbing, and has threatened her many times. In the conflict at her home in Orange County in 1992, Lin Liyun cut all Ji Ranbing's clothes with scissors, with the tops cut at the chest and the pants and skirts cut at the lower part, which showed her violent tendency.
Fourthly, in the conversation with Peng Zengji after Lin was arrested by the police, he admitted that Ji's apartment had a fight, and he witnessed Ji's death.
An important victory for the prosecution in the first trial was that the judge ruled that the recording of a conversation between Lin Liyun and her husband Peng Zengji after being arrested at the police station could be used as evidence. At that time, Peng was suddenly surprised by his wife's arrest, so he eagerly asked her in dialect whether she had been to Ji Ranbing's apartment and killed anyone. The police at the scene couldn't understand the conversation, so they recorded it. This casual recording later became one of the keys to the case. In this conversation, Lin Liyun basically admitted that she was the murderer. She said that Ji Ranbing forced her to divorce with her children, and then beat her. Later, Ji "made himself" and fell on the tip of the knife and died.
there are many doubts in this case. The police once suspected that Lin Liyun was unable to kill Ji Ranbing, who was taller and stronger than her. At that time, Lin Liyun's eldest son, who was studying in Los Angeles, might be an accomplice, but later he did not file a case because of lack of evidence.
Ironically, Xue Man, a barrister hired by Peng Zengji for his wife's high salary, insisted in the first trial that Peng Zengji was the real murderer, thinking that Peng had wandered outside Ji's apartment for eight hours before reporting the case, which was contrary to common sense. He might have killed someone because of the pressure from his wife and the deterioration of his relationship with Ji. However, this theory has not been approved by the police and the prosecution.
The Orange County High Court formally heard the case in March, 1995. A jury composed of 7 women and 5 men held a two-month hearing on the evidence presented by both the prosecution and the defense. Although the evidence is conclusive, the case was declared to be in trial because two jury members thought Lin Liyun was innocent and could not reach an agreement. According to American law, in criminal cases, as long as the jury can't reach a unanimous opinion, then the case will be tried. The Orange County Procuratorate filed a new lawsuit, which was retried in the Orange County High Court from February to April, 1996. Finally, the jury unanimously found that the case was conclusive and Lin Liyun was convicted of murder, so Judge John Ryan sentenced Lin Liyun to life imprisonment without parole.
a million dollars for freedom: stealing evidence, which cannot be used as evidence for conviction.
Lin Liyun was not willing to spend the rest of his life behind bars, and entrusted a lawyer to appeal all the time. On September 31, 1999, things finally turned around. The Court of Appeal of fourth area, California ruled:
1. The police recorded the conversation between the suspect and his family during the investigation of this case, which was unconstitutional to obtain evidence and "infringed on the defendant's right to remain silent". This tape recording cannot be used as evidence in court.
2. The court held that the police interrogated Lin Liyun for nine hours in the absence of lawyer Lin Liyun, which violated personal privacy. Therefore, the Santa Ana High Court was asked to withdraw the sentence of "life imprisonment without parole" against Lin Liyun.
The High Court overturned the judgment of the second instance and sent the case back to the Orange County High Court for retrial. On October 9, 2111, the California Supreme Court once again refused to consider the appeal of the Orange County District Attorney's Office to restore the judgment of the Santa Ana High Court on the murder of Lin Liyun. On October 24th, the Orange County District Inspection Office announced that it would sue Lin Liyun for the third time, but it could no longer use "tapes" as evidence. The prosecution filed a third prosecution against Lin Liyun in March this year.
At this time, Barnett, Lin Liyun's defense lawyer, invited MichaelM.Baden, the most famous forensic pathologist in the United States, and Li Changyu, a criminal science expert with international reputation.
Baden examined the bodies of former President Kennedy and big star Monroe in his early years. Li Changyu is an internationally renowned expert in criminal forensics. Together, they testified for the defense in Simpson's case and got the defendant off the hook. The testimony provided by these two famous experts will undoubtedly have a great influence on the jury.
Barnett's defense strategy is to insist that Peng Zengji is the murderer. For this reason, he needs to set the death time of Ji Ranbing at the afternoon of August 8, 1993, so that Peng Zengji can commit a crime, and there must be physical evidence of a man at the scene of the murder. Baden concluded that Ji Ranbing was cut open and infected with bacteria when she was killed, which accelerated the process from stiffness to softening, so she should have been killed between 2 pm and 4 pm on August 8.
Li Changyu pointed out that there was another man at the scene of the murder. Because Li Changyu "found" a bloody pillow on the sofa with a "big handprint" on it, and it wasn't a woman's. He raised some questions. There were some apple peels in the bowl on the coffee table in the living room, but Ji Ranbing's stomach did not find any apple residue. Who ate the apple? There was blood on the sandals beside the table, but there was no blood around the table. Where did the blood come from? Lin Liyun was small. There should be a powerful person who controlled Ji Ranbing as soon as he entered the door, making her unable to resist. At this time, the only direct evidence in the hands of the prosecution is Lin Liyun's DNA, that is, the saliva on Ji Ranbing's arm bite mark, which is consistent with Lin Liyun's DNA after testing. But it can only prove that Lin Liyun was present at the time of the crime, but it can't prove that she must have killed Ji Ranbing.
The prosecutor used a lot of situational evidence, comprehensively considered the rival relationship between Lin Liyun and Ji Ranbing, their previous negotiations and quarrels, and the illegitimate child's future distribution of property, and concluded that only Lin Liyun had the motive to kill. The murder of Ji Ranbing's mother and son was originally an ordinary murder case, not an intelligent high-tech crime. However, the defense invited Baden, the chief forensic doctor and pathologist of the American judiciary, and Li Changyu, a criminal forensic expert with international reputation, for millions of dollars, which was ridiculed by the prosecution as "killing the chicken with an ox knife".
The knife went into battle in order to influence the jury and find the defendant not guilty. As long as one of the twelve jurors holds this idea, the case may go to trial, and the defendant may get away with it. Because it is impossible for the Orange County District Prosecutor's Office to sue Lin Liyun for the fourth time, the prosecutor Moerke is under great pressure. Li Changyu, a criminal detection expert who testified for Simpson's case, put forward the assumption that there was a third party at the scene based on the police report and evidence, and pointed the suspect at men. This is very consistent with the defense lawyer's determination that the murderer is Ji Ranbing's lover Peng Zengji. They claimed that Peng Zengji did this because he was afraid that his continued contacts with Ji Ranbing would affect his career in the mainland. After three months of fierce debate, finally, four of the twelve jurors thought Lin Liyun was not guilty. This case has been tried again.
Considering that the case has cost millions of dollars, and there is no certainty of winning the new prosecution, prosecutor Molko finally lost the courage to continue the prosecution and decided to back down. On June 29, after bargaining, the prosecution and the defense reached a plea agreement that was beneficial to both sides: Lin Liyun admitted to committing two minor crimes of angry homicide in exchange for her immediate bail. In the United States, the maximum sentence for the crime of angry homicide is eleven years, and the judge sentenced Lin Liyun to eleven years' imprisonment for two crimes. As Lin Liyun holds a Taiwan Province passport and is not a citizen of the United States, he must be deported and never re-enter the United States.
Although Morko claimed that the result reached "reasonable justice", the senior prosecutor's words were full of helplessness about the shortcomings of American law. At the trial site on the 29th, when Judge Floyd asked Lin Liyun one by one whether he admitted that the prosecution had accused him of carrying a deadly weapon to attack others to death, Lin Liyun kept wiping his tears with a paper towel while answering yes. Finally, the judge announced that the two crimes were combined to execute 11 years' imprisonment. Since Lin Liyun has served seven and a half years in prison and has performed well in prison, he can be released from prison and be deported by the Immigration Bureau. Hearing this, Lin Liyun smiled through tears, felt relieved, and embraced the defense lawyer, which seemed very relaxed.