May 4, 9 a.m., Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Intermediate People's Court, with the presiding judge, "with the defendant Li Bo to the court" of the order, 11 years ago in the United States in the murder of his wife fled back to China, the defendant Li Bo, escorted by two bailiffs to accept the court trial. The other side of the Pacific Ocean - the United States of America, Los Angeles, the judicial branch of the case is highly concerned about, specially sent the case of the host prosecutor, the Los Angeles County Attorney's Office, special assistant Lisa S. Coen and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Sean Coen (Sean D. Coen) rushed to China to participate in the trial. The trial was attended by Lisa S. Coen, a special assistant to the court. Brian, a police officer who was unable to catch Li Bo and whose retirement was delayed because of the case, was thrilled to learn of the news, saying excitedly, "This is the best gift I've ever received before I retire! The end of the investigation of this 11-year murder case has been hailed as a "model of U.S.-China criminal justice collaboration" by insiders.
Suspect Li Mou
11 years ago, the United States to kill his wife opened the U.S.-China criminal justice collaboration
January 9, 2007, the U.S. Los Angeles Whittier Park administrators in the park lake in a floating garbage cans found a body. The Los Angeles Police Department rushed to the scene at the first opportunity to salvage, investigate and collect evidence. Due to the low geographical latitude of Los Angeles, the average temperature in winter is still around 10 degrees, plus the lake water into the barrel, the body has been decomposed. January 19, Los Angeles police successfully extracted the body fingerprints, confirmed that the deceased is a Chinese citizen Gao Mou (female, aged 26, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, people).
U.S. case officers at the scene of the discovery of the trash can
The Modern Express reporter learned that Gao came to the United States more than 10 years ago with her husband, Li Bo, who worked as a chef in a restaurant through professional immigration. In the face of his wife's body, Li Bo showed heartbroken. He reflected to the police, December 13, 2006 afternoon, his wife sent a friend to the airport and never came back. This is exactly the same as the last day of Gao's activities identified by the U.S. police. And that day was later confirmed to be the date of Gao's death.
Since then, based on the information available, the LAPD has launched a large number of investigations. Around the deceased's pre-life activities, many visits to pre-life colleagues, both sides of the couple's friends and relatives, etc., suspects were one by one excluded, although the police have suspicions of Li Bo, but never obtained more direct evidence. In the blink of an eye, 3 years have passed, this murder case is like a stone in Brian's heart, and he is about to face retirement, he does not want to leave any regrets in his career as a police officer. Then, in 2010, the case came to a head.
In January of that year, Li Bo was arrested for burglary in Northern California, and his biopsy was consistent with the physical evidence at the scene, making him a strong suspect in the murder. This discovery surprised Brian. In order to improve the evidence, he wanted to the deceased Gao's hometown to further evidence. 2013 December, a letter from the Los Angeles Police Department issued a request for assistance, through the Chinese Embassy in the United States, sent to the Ministry of Public Security Criminal Investigation Bureau of the relevant person in charge of the desk." Do your best to cooperate with the U.S. police forensics, early return the deceased a justice!" This person in charge requested.
Victim Gao Mou life photo
December 10, 2013 morning, responsible for the case of the U.S. police Brian and Amy in Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou City and Jiangdu District three public security organs with the cooperation of the deceased's hometown of Shaobo Town, to the parents of Gao Mou to carry out detailed questioning. brian found that Li Bo in many key issues to the U.S. police lied. After further work, the U.S. police charged Li Bo with two felony counts of murder and rape in violation of the U.S. Penal Code in Los Angeles between December 13 and 24, 2006.
The U.S. Superior Court of the State of California issued a warrant for the arrest of Li Bo on July 16, 2014.
The U.S. police arrested Li Bo for murder and rape in Los Angeles, California.
The U.S. case officer went to the hometown of the victim and the suspect to learn about the situation.
Brian was not happy about the progress of the case. Because the investigation found that Li Bo had returned to China in May 2010, he was not happy about the progress of the case. As we all know, according to China's Extradition Law, it is impossible for China to extradite Li Bo to the United States because he is a Chinese citizen. The U.S. police could not go to China directly to arrest the murderer, so the progress of solving the case was once again hindered. Thinking of the full cooperation given by the Chinese police during the last evidence collection in China, Brian regained his confidence.
After six months, the Ministry of Public Security received another letter from the U.S. police requesting the transfer of the case.
To the U.S., a challenge without precedent
The murder scene in the U.S., the suspects in China, how to carry out further investigation, the suspects will be brought to justice, the police in front of the U.S. and China have become a **** the same problem.
After consultations between China and the United States, in 2014, the U.S. police transferred the case to the Chinese side for processing, and then designated by the Ministry of Public Security and the provincial and municipal public security organs, Yangzhou City Jiangdu District Public Security Bureau is responsible for the specific investigation." The U.S. police transferred this case to our country for processing, has a major judicial cooperation significance, be sure to make this case into an iron case, into a high-quality case, to withstand the test of history and the law!" The Ministry of Public Security gave instructions.
The car transporting the garbage cans, the case officers in the survey.
October 19, 2014, the Ministry of Public Security Criminal Investigation Bureau led Jiangsu three public security organs, a line of eight people embarked on a journey to the United States to accept the case. At this time from the murder has been nearly 8 years. The pressure in front of the Chinese task force is obvious. Counting the round trip in the U.S. only 7 days less than the time, not to mention the long time span of the murder, the first scene of the murder is still uncertain, on the judicial collaboration, the United States and China's rules of evidence, the differences between the trial system is also quite large, and the criminal justice cooperation is no precedent to follow.
The Modern Express reporter learned that the night of arrival in Los Angeles, did not have time to rest, did not care to adjust the discomfort caused by jet lag, the Chinese working group came to my consulate in Los Angeles as soon as the plane, the report to be in the U.S. to carry out the work of the plan, requesting coordination of the U.S. police in order to ensure that the forensic work is carried out smoothly.
Time must be saved in a race against time, in order to improve efficiency, the working group personnel split up. One group went to the dumping site Whittier Park and 20 minutes drive away from the deceased's former rented place on the ground, a detailed understanding of the location of the relevant geographic environment in relation to the location, and drove a number of times between the two places in order to verify the suspect's path and feasibility. With the help of the U.S. police, a number of important evidence of the crime was transported back home.
A group of overnight translation of the U.S. evidence materials, timely research and evaluation of key evidence. In order to ensure that the relevant evidence meets the requirements of China's rules of evidence, the working group also put forward additional requirements for key evidence to the U.S. police, in order to lay a good foundation for the later criminal proceedings.
After summarizing the collection work of each group, the working group was again divided into three groups to review the transcripts of witness testimonies, appraisal conclusions and other legal documents, traces of physical evidence obtained, etc., and to listen to the working group prosecutors on the collection of evidence in the case of the work of the opinions and suggestions, to further consolidate the work of the investigation and collection of evidence.
The first trip to the U.S., the Chinese working group's harvest can be said to be "heavyweight". There are nearly 300 pages of textual information, more than 20 CD-ROMs and more than 10 pieces of physical evidence.
Whittier Park in Los Angeles, the United States, where the victim's body was hidden in a trash can by the water.
Tackling the truth
October 26, 2014, the Chinese working group returned to the country on the second day of the criminal investigation and legal system and other elite police force that is gathered in Jiangdu, set up a special investigative work team.
In accordance with China's criminal law, the U.S. side to provide witness testimony, appraisal conclusions and investigation transcripts, only to be able to point to Li Bo has a significant suspicion of murder, but the basis for the determination is not sufficient, the case is still very difficult to investigate. Therefore, how to transform the evidence collected by the U.S. side into legal evidence that meets the requirements of Chinese law is the most time-consuming and crucial step for the working group.
To this end, the case-handling authorities to organize the backbone of the case, a detailed review of the case file materials, familiar with the U.S. side of the work and the evidence of the case, put forward a number of evidence into the admissibility of the work of the specific issues that can not be avoided, focusing on the study of the legitimacy of the source of the evidence, evidence into the problem and put forward a guiding opinion for the next step in the investigation of the task force to provide a "roadmap".
According to the deployment, once the peripheral investigation evidence chain is formed, you can start to arrest. Since then, the task force closely detect Li Bo action, continuous tracking and waiting for many days. 2015 September 9, in Ganjiang District, Yangzhou City, in front of a small community, Li Bo hands captured.
The Modern Express reporter learned that Li Bo had previously been interrogated by the U.S. police many times, but has not been accounted for the facts of the crime, in the U.S. police will be high after the return of the body, a period of time Li Bo thought that the body is not there, the evidence is not there, he can rest on his laurels. During this period, he married again and had a child. He never thought, he killed his wife in the United States more than 9 years later, to the end planted in the hands of the Chinese police.
While having a strong ability to resist the trial, but in Yangzhou City Public Security Bureau pre-trial experts powerful policy offense and a series of evidence in front of, after 37 days of resistance, Li Bo finally lost the battle. Li Bo explained that in 2002, the couple came to Los Angeles in the capacity of professional immigrants, the two people for the dream to work hard. Later, Gao learned English, driver's license, want to stay in the U.S. entrepreneurship, more and more off used to the status quo, do not seek progress Li Bo. Since then, the two sides constantly quarrel, Gao repeatedly threatened to divorce, leading to the escalation of conflicts. 2006 December 13 afternoon, the two men did not agree to quarrel, Li Bo in a rage, killed Gao, and then dumped the body.
Ironclad evidence, coupled with the confession of the suspect Li Bo, the United States and China all the evidence to further solidify. October 15, 2015, by the Yangzhou City Jiangdu District People's Procuratorate approval, Jiangdu police according to law on the arrest of Li Bo.
The U.S. police handed over the garbage cans, which were important evidence, to the Chinese police.
Improving evidence makes for an ironclad case
The case is not yet closed at this point.
Whittier Park lake, accompanied by U.S. police officers, the working group re-examined the first scene of the murder, the location of the body and the route of the body; after several days of searching, the police found other important evidence. Afterwards, the working group carried out three investigative experiments, identified the Li Bo objectively have the time to kill and dump the body and transportation of the body of the tools and other operating conditions, a comprehensive reflection of the Li Bo confession accounted for some of the details of the crime, played to clarify the facts of the case, to strengthen the evidence and eliminate the role of reasonable doubt.
Los Angeles County, Tian Pu City (sound) Police Department, under the auspices of the U.S. police, a number of key witnesses came to the scene, one by one to produce transcripts, verification of relevant evidence materials, improve the case evidence chain. In order to adapt to the relevant provisions of Chinese law, the U.S. side of the organization to participate in the case of Brian, Amy and other police officers to sign to confirm all the transfer of evidence, to provide a forensic, toxicology, DNA identification agencies and personnel of more than 30 certificates of qualification, to complete the Chinese side of the transformation of the evidence to the requirements of the admissibility of the case for the litigation to lay a solid foundation for the case thereafter.
The nine-day trip to the U.S. to collect evidence soon came to an end, the trip Chinese working group not only harvested a wealth of evidence. The head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that despite the differences with the U.S. police in the organization and leadership, service command, legal system, but in the fight against transnational cross-border crime, especially in the investigation of homicide and other serious cases of violence, the two sides have the same understanding, concerted action, and has achieved good results, the two sides of the U.S. and China to further deepen the transnational police cooperation has an important demonstration of significance.
On May 4, Li Bo was tried in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, and the trial ended at 11:30 p.m. The court did not pronounce a sentence on the spot.