It is understood that the case took a long time because of its long time span, many charges, complicated case and a large number of normative documents involved in the procedure. At the same time, the trial of this case is expected to take two and a half days and may not be pronounced in court.
The voice outside the courtroom
A red windbreaker has been crushed for nearly 30 years.
On the morning of July 18, Baiyin Intermediate People's Court held a hearing on the "Silver Serial Murder Case". Because the road around the Intermediate People's Court of Baiyin City was under construction, Gao was transferred to the first trial court of Baiyin District Court for trial after confirmation by the collegial panel. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the police car escorting the defendant Gao arrived at the Baiyin District Court. Subsequently, the families of the victims came to the Baiyin District Court one after another. Because the case was not heard in public, the court only allowed one immediate family member of the victim to participate in the trial, and the rest of the family members could only stand at the door of the court and anxiously wait for the news of the trial.
/kloc-on the morning of 0/7, the Intermediate People's Court of Baiyin City, Gansu Province held a press conference. A spokesman for the Baiyin Intermediate People's Court said that the charges against the defendant Gao involved intentional homicide, rape, robbery and insulting the body.
At the press conference, Baiyin Intermediate People's Court introduced that in order to fully guarantee the defendant's high exercise of litigation rights, Baiyin Intermediate People's Court has appointed an aid lawyer for him, consulted and extracted the file according to law, and served a copy of the indictment of the procuratorate and the complaint of criminal incidental civil action according to law. At the same time, Baiyin Intermediate People's Court informed the close relatives of the victims that they have the right to bring criminal incidental civil proceedings according to law in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 99 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is understood that at the same time as the criminal case, 1 1 the victim's family also filed an incidental civil compensation request.
According to a bailiff who asked not to be named, Gao tried to commit suicide several times in the detention center, but all failed. Two days before the trial, Gao even hit his head against the wall and was stopped by the prison guard in time. According to the reporter's understanding, in order to prevent accidents in the trial, Baiyin Intermediate People's Court mobilized more than 20 bailiffs from the courts of three counties and two districts in Baiyin City to participate in maintaining order the day before the trial.
A woman surnamed Zhang said that the silver serial murder case has made her unforgettable so far, and the red trench coat locked in the closet for nearly 30 years is the best witness. "At that time, I was in my twenties and bought a trench coat. As a result, just after wearing it for one day, I heard that someone had killed the woman in red. I took it off when I got home and never dared to wear it again. " Ms. Zhang said that she heard that the case was in court and specially came to listen to the news. She said that after years of fear, she finally felt at ease from the day he was arrested.
Lawyer's voice
Gao was calm in court and didn't apologize.
It is understood that the morning trial lasted until about noon 1 1: 45. A civil litigation attorney hired by the victim's family told the media waiting outside the court that Gao was very calm in court and did not say much or apologize to the victim's family. The trial process was conducted in the chronological order, and two cases were heard in the morning.
At noon yesterday, the reporter called Gao's defense lawyer Zhu, but the phone was always turned off. Later, Zhu sent a text message to reply that he could not answer the phone for the time being. Earlier, in an interview with the media, Mr. Zhu said that 18 was in court all day except for a short recess at noon. These three days were all used for court hearings, and no other work was handled. The mobile phone was turned off.
In response to Gao's previous mention of organ donation, the court said that Gao never mentioned this matter to the members of the collegiate bench. In this regard, lawyer Zhu said that when meeting with Gao before, when listening to a lawyer asking how to compensate the families of the victims, Gao had expressed his willingness to donate organs, but the organ donation process was complicated and it was necessary to find suitable recipients. Zhu believes that surgery is unlikely.
At about 8 o'clock on July 81,Zhu, the defendant Gao's defense lawyer, told the reporter that according to the time sequence of the crimes, Baiyin Intermediate People's Court tried seven of the 1 1 criminal facts prosecuted by the prosecution. "During the trial, Gao confessed to all the criminal facts."
Voice of the family
My mother was only eight when she was killed.
Wang Yun (pseudonym), the victim's family in the fourth case, told reporters after attending the trial that the case was tried for more than an hour, and the defendant Gao was calm when he told the story of the crime in court, as if the crime was a matter of course, with no remorse.
Wang Yun told reporters that he was only eight years old when his mother died. It was more than three months after the incident that he learned that his mother had been killed. "Said high to find my dad, my mother let him in. My mom paged my dad, too. I was afraid that things would be exposed, so I started. "
According to public reports, Deng, who lives in Shuichuan Road, Baiyin District, followed him into his home at 5 pm on June 1998+1October19 and killed him.
According to the victim's family, this trial is divided into 1 1 cases, and each case will be tried separately.
A victim's attorney told the reporter that in the case he represented, the victim's family raised more than 570,000 yuan in civil compensation, including funeral expenses, death compensation and mental damages. "Every family is different, and some family members have offered compensation of more than 654.38+0 million."
Earlier, the reporter had contacted Cui Xiangping, the younger brother of one of the victims. He said, "Actually, I didn't ask for anything. I just hope that Gao will be brought to justice and compensated. He has no assets and no way to compensate. "
Cui Xiangping said that economic compensation is just a gesture, and no amount of money can make up for the harm to the family or save the life of my sister.
Let the criminals pay the price of their lives and give the victims an account.