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On June 23, 2003, the case was heard in the Intermediate People's Court of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. During the trial, Monday Chao regretted it very much and was willing to pay all his money to compensate the victims and their families. His mother also offered to sell the only house in the family to save her son. Defense lawyers believe that Monday Chao has always placed high hopes on this civil service examination, and this attack was caused by irrational behavior caused by losing the election. Accordingly, he also applied for a judicial psychiatric appraisal of Zhou Yichao.
In the face of the legal consequences that Monday Chao is about to bear, many people who feel sorry are appealing for him. In the eyes of outsiders, Zhou Yichao is a good student with excellent academic performance. He is kind and conscientious. According to Zhou Yichao's mother, his father died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 12. Monday's performance has been very good. He is an outstanding student in the eyes of classmates and teachers, and also a class cadre. He won many awards. According to students and teachers, Zhou Yichao has excellent academic performance, gentle introverted personality, good popularity, very diligent and meticulous work, and no bad records during his school days.
During the trial of the case, Zhou's class teacher, counselor and 60 students from the Agricultural College jointly wrote to the court asking for another chance. 12 1 Jiaxing citizens petitioned the court to give him a chance to live, and at the same time to give his desperate mother a chance to live. Forty colleagues of Cao Guowei's mother wrote to the court on Monday, expressing the same feelings. There are also 208 residents of Pingshan Community, Jianshe Street, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province who live in Zhouyichao, who jointly wrote to the court, pleading for a chance for Zhouyichao.
Yan Xuejun, a lawyer defending Zhou Yichao, is still very confident about the effect of the joint letter, and thinks that Zhou Yichao should be exempted from the death penalty. Mi Xuejun told reporters that the joint letter reflected the extraordinary performance on Monday, which is favorable evidence. In the process of his contact with Zhou Yichao and people who once lived together, I feel that Zhou Yichao is an excellent college student, such as being a class cadre at school and winning a scholarship. Yan Xuejun also emphasized one thing. Just this Monday, when the DPRK was in the detention center, it also expressed remorse to the victim's family, hoping that his mother would transfer the house to the victim's family for compensation to alleviate the pain of the victim's family. This shows that Zhou has a good attitude of repentance. According to these facts, Zhou's mother and classmates jointly wrote to the court.
According to Mi, the families of the victims did not express any opinions on the joint letter of more than 400 people, and they still hoped that Zhou would be severely punished by law. Mi said: "Zhou himself is a farmer. If he can save his life, he can also create wealth for society and atone for himself through labor. I hope the court can give him such an opportunity. " So in court, he said that he would "put people under the gun."
On September 4, 2003, the Intermediate People's Court of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province made a first-instance judgment on the case of Monday Chao:
The court held that the defendant Zhou Yichao was eager to be eliminated because he failed in the civil service examination and physical examination, and then doubted the fairness of the civil service recruitment process, held a grudge against the recruitment staff and retaliated for murder. In the process of doing something with a knife, Zhang was injured for no reason, causing one death and one serious injury. His behavior has constituted the crime of intentional homicide. The charges charged by the public prosecution agency were established. The defendant's criminal means are particularly cruel and the consequences are particularly serious, which should be severely punished according to law. Although the defendant proposed by the defender has a good attitude of pleading guilty and repenting, and has always performed well before committing the crime, he can set up a discretionary lighter punishment, but the defendant's criminal circumstances are particularly serious, which is not enough to punish the defendant lightly.
Accordingly, the Intermediate People's Court of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province sentenced him to death for intentional homicide and deprived him of his political rights for life.
After the judgment of the first instance, Monday Chao refused to accept it and appealed to the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province. On March 2, 2004, Zhejiang Higher People's Court made a final ruling:
During the civil service examination, the defendant Zhou Yichao doubted the fairness of the recruitment work because of his unqualified medical examination. He broke into the office of a government agency with a knife and killed one person and another, which constituted the crime of intentional homicide. Although he can confess his crimes after being brought to justice, the circumstances of his intentional homicide are particularly serious and do great harm to society. Zhou Yichao and his defenders in the second instance demanded a lighter punishment because of insufficient reasons and were not adopted. The original judgment, conviction and applicable law were correct and the sentence was appropriate.
On this basis, the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province finally ruled that Zhou Yichao's appeal was rejected and the first-instance judgment of Jiaxing Intermediate People's Court of Zhejiang Province on September 4, 2003 was upheld. And executed Chao according to law on Monday.