56 years ago, the Lianhua County Court found that Wang raped and molested many female students and sentenced Wang to fixed-term imprisonment of 10 years. From the first trial to the second trial, Wang refused to plead guilty and even complained since he was released from prison.
For decades, he appealed to the judicial organs such as Lianhua County Court, Ji 'an Intermediate People's Court, Pingxiang Intermediate People's Court and Jiangxi Provincial Procuratorate, all of which ended in failure. On September 26th last year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate accepted Wang's complaint and gave him great hope. However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Four months later, the Supreme People's Procuratorate rejected Wang's complaint for three reasons:
1. Wang made a guilty confession and the victim made an accusation statement.
Secondly, Wang argued that he pleaded guilty because he was afraid of trial and fabricated the story of the crime, which was unreasonable, and there was no evidence to prove that there was a confession by torture at that time, and there was no problem with his guilty confession.
Third, there is no reasonable reason for the change of the victim's statement, which is not enough to become new evidence.
Regarding the reasons for the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Wang's attorney said that each of them would not be recognized.
In criminal proceedings, physical evidence is more important than confession, because confession is easily influenced by subjective factors. Even without extorting a confession by torture, the defendant may make a confession against himself for other reasons such as policy, environment and relatives' interests. The same applies to the validity of witness testimony and victim statement. Therefore, verbal evidence such as the defendant's confession, the victim's statement and the witness's testimony should be supported on the principle of benefiting the defendant, so as to avoid the occurrence of unjust, false and wrong cases.
In this case, although Wang made a guilty confession in the investigation stage, Wang said that the so-called guilty confession was only "based on a strict understanding of mistakes, rubbing medicine on students, teaching students inevitable physical contact, and publicly criticizing female students for falling in love in class", but now the court of first instance and the Supreme Procuratorate understand it not as an insult.
Moreover, in the formal trial of the first and second trials, Wang refused to admit that he had committed rape, and the legality of Wang's guilty confession was questionable.
Secondly, in the news interviews in recent years, the "victimized girls" all said that Mr. Wang had never violated himself and nothing had ever happened. What reason do you need to admit the truth?
Finally, from the full text of the notice, there is no material evidence in this case, and the whole article is based on Wang's guilty confession and the victim's statement at that time, which does not conform to the principle of attaching importance to material evidence and neglecting confession.
The case is full of doubts and lacks physical evidence. It is really detrimental to fairness, justice and judicial credibility to determine that a person is guilty only on the basis of an investigation material written by a colleague and a confession that is not guilty.
Wang is 80 years old and has been hospitalized several times. Can his wish to die innocently come true? It's hard to say.