The major social problems reflected behind this case, and the tearing of the values of relevant social groups caused by it, are a microcosm of the social problems in contemporary China, which deserves our deep thought and careful taste.
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Who's Wang Zhenhua? According to public information, he is the chairman of Xincheng Holding Group. On April 7th, 2020, Wang Zhenhua ranked 383rd on the Forbes list of billionaires in the world in 2020 with a wealth of US$ 4.5 billion.
It should be said that from the perspective of personal struggle, there are only a handful of rich people in China who can catch up with Wang Zhenhua. As a top rich man who has benefited from the reform and opening up, he is a real social elite in China at present with his wealth and social resources.
Relying on the blessing of the state and society, this kind of capital elite has become a deputy to the National People's Congress, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a national model worker, and a typical representative of the capitalist class to obtain all political interests under the socialist regime.
There is no doubt that Wang Zhenhua, as an individual, is the top winner in politics, capital and personal struggle. Among the 65.438+0.4 billion people in China, he has reached a peak that most people can't reach all their lives.
Being born in a prosperous time, becoming a super elite of society and mastering abundant capital can realize the value of life that ordinary people can't realize and experience the life course that ordinary people can't experience. This was originally a very lucky thing, and it is indeed a thing to be proud of.
But there is a historical problem that the capitalist class has no obligation to be bound by morality. After having money, I want to be richer, after having money, I want to have power, and after having power, I want to have privileges and become an extremely special social class.
Of course, no matter socialism or capitalism, ordinary people can't interfere with this desire of the capitalist class, and they can't do anything about this class's wanton behavior.
Fortunately, under the socialist system, China still has a group of moral civilians who can consciously resist the invasion of capital, thus realizing the conscious moral restraint of the capitalist class.
However, the uncontrolled desire of the capital class will continue to divide the rich and the poor in society and intensify deep-seated social contradictions.
Wang Zhenhua is such a typical example. As a deputy to the National People's Congress, he knows that whoring and indecency are illegal, but he dares to do so. He also claimed that he had legal awareness of girls under 16 and would not touch them.
The implication is that he still has a bottom line. But it reflects his contempt for the law. In his eyes, to a certain extent, the law is useless to him.
A poor man, because he was lonely, found a woman through WeChat and negotiated the price. Maybe he had been administratively detained as a prostitute before taking off his pants.
But a rich man can "fuck" countless girls according to his own preferences in his limited life, and the law can't help him if he wants to choose young and beautiful ones.
There are many reasons for this social elite who flouts the law: fatigue, great pressure and struggle for so many years. What's wrong with enjoying it? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
What can you do in the face of this phenomenon? In fact, there is nothing you can do.
If it weren't for the alarm from the parents of the 9-year-old girl in this case, at this moment, this Wang Zhenhua might be in the hotel, choosing several young girls who have just passed 16 years old in one second, trampling on them and trampling on the law in an all-round way.
Law, law, the elite just want to step on you. Why don't you take care of me?
The social sentiment revealed by this extreme case is suffocating.
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Combined with sporadic reports on the facts of the case, if the existing reports are basically true in key information, judging from the result that Wang Zhenhua was sentenced to five years, the judgment of the Shanghai court should be relatively fair.
Of course, based on the professional ethics of law, I don't want to express my views on fact finding and legal application here without a comprehensive review of the file and participation in the substantive trial of the case.
However, this case is precisely in the absence of details, which triggered a frenzy of social criticism.
Of course, we cannot blame the public or the media. We can only blame Wang Zhenhua's own behavior for stimulating the public's nerves. At the same time, we should blame the lawyer's unintentional public opinion hype.
The root of this case lies in the law itself. It is the law itself that condones obscenity, which leads the 57-year-old NPC representative to tear the vagina of a 9-year-old girl and only bear the legal consequences of five years of criminal responsibility.
The public opinion of this case continues to ferment, and its influence on Wang Zhenhua himself is still unimaginable.
At the same time, this case may go beyond the case itself and really promote the arrival of extremely severe punishment for child molestation in our criminal law. This is the special role of personal destiny when it meets the trend of the times.
As for lawyers' defense, it is understandable that both Chen Youxi and lawyers should realize their respective missions based on the duties entrusted by law.
However, it is his improper hype of public opinion in this case that not only brings collective stigma to lawyers, but also may hurt the vital interests of client Wang Zhenhua.
At present, I can basically judge that Chen Youxi's defense is a failure in terms of political and social effects. As for the legal effect of the defense, we can only see the result of the second trial of this case.
Many lawyers in China have always believed that the system is extremely unfriendly to lawyers. However, from a historical point of view, since the beginning of the China Revolution, there have been many accidental connections between the system and the law.
At that time, Prime Minister Ryan went to study in France. At the time of financial distress, it was because of the support of a barrister in Beijing that the flame of the China Revolution was preserved in Europe, so the China system has a friendly historical gene for lawyers themselves.
But today, it is obvious that barristers in the eyes of the world have been out of this era for too long.
In the process of reform and opening up, barrister Chen, who made a name for himself by using the power of public opinion, finally suffered a major career failure in 2020 when the country promoted a higher level of reform and opening up.
Integrity can be described as: success is also public opinion, and failure is also public opinion.
I have great respect for lawyers, and I deeply know the important influence of lawyers' defense on the value of justice.
In the historical logic of system evolution, contemporary lawyers in China are exploring the best soul matching point between lawyer's value and system majesty.
Looking at lawyer Chen Youxi from this angle, he once represented the generation of China lawyers who did the right thing, but from now on, when people mention Chen Youxi again, he will be the representative who did the wrong thing.
China's lawyer system will continue to make great strides in this wave. In order to defend the rule of law in China, maintain the long-term stability of this country and realize personal values,
Make new and greater contributions to this country and this era.