The iron-faced selfless spirit is self-reliant and remembers Yang Jun, president of the criminal division of the Shashi District Court in Jingzhou, Hubei Province

The iron-faced selfless spirit is self-reliant and remembers Yang Jun, president of the criminal division of the Shashi District Court in Jingzhou, Hubei Province

□ Reporters Zhao Jie and Liu Zhiyue

He served as a judge, handling nearly 4,000 cases, without a single wrong judgment, and none of them were complained about because of unfair judgments;

He served as the president of the court, led his colleagues to conclude 2570 criminal cases of various types in 5 years, and sentenced 2836 defendants according to law;

At the age of 52, he was in his prime, but he left his relatives, friends, colleagues and work forever due to illness...

He is the president of the criminal trial division of the Shashi District People's Court in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, a first-class judge, and the director of the office of the Shacheng District Court's Leading Group for the Special Struggle to Eliminate Organized Crime and Evil Forces. Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Supreme People's Court posthumously awarded him the title of "National Model Judge".

Folding bed that has not been unopened

In the eyes of others, Yang Jun is a tireless person, except for the court meeting, always sitting at his desk reading the file and writing the verdict. He did not have the habit of taking a lunch break and continued to work after lunch. Some have described him as "clockwork superman".

Behind Yang Jun's chair, leaning on the window sill stood a folding bed, which was uniformly equipped for judges in the court to facilitate everyone's lunch break, but until his death, Yang Jun's folding bed was not unpacked.

Behind selflessness, diligence and research are ideals, beliefs, and responsibilities.

In the late summer of 2016, a pseudo base station case was brought to court. The defendant installed a pseudo base station on the rented car and sent more than 40,000 advertising text messages. At the time, there was little precedent for such cases. Whether it is the crime of sabotaging public telecommunications facilities or disrupting the order of radio communication management, the sentencing of the two crimes is very different, and the prosecutor and the defendant's defense lawyer have their own opinions. Yang Jun carefully studied the legal provisions, analyzed and compared relevant cases, and finally made up his mind - sentenced the defendant to 1 year in prison and fined 3,000 yuan for the crime of disrupting the management order of radio communications. This case became an important reference for the Hubei court to hear similar cases at that time.

In Yang Jun, the "iron surface" and "temperature" never contradict each other.

In January 2020, Yang Jun used the expedited criminal procedure to try a case of suspected casino opening, and sentenced the defendant to short-term detention and suspension of execution.

It turned out that the defendant was a rural woman in her 50s who opened a mahjong hall in her house for entertainment by surrounding villagers. She did not know that her actions were suspected of crime, but faced with the facts, she voluntarily admitted guilt and accepted punishment. Yang Jun learned that the defendant's husband was home alone with a stroke and was left unattended. Yang Jun quickly concluded the matter and hurried to make this "temperature" referee before the Spring Festival.

At the end of 2019, Yang Jun undertook a case involving more than 1.3 billion yuan and involving 4,152 participants in the fundraising to illegally absorb public deposits. In the face of complex cases, he was meticulous, carefully verifying every detail, carefully deliberating every sentence of testimony, and "nibbling" dozens of files within the statutory time.

What is amazing is that the 148-page judgment of nearly 100,000 words is clear, the facts are clear, the legal relationship is clear, and each money of the 4152 victims is clearly checked, and each refund is clearly calculated. These data are exchanged by Yang Jun for one sleepless night after another; these data carry Yang Jun's original intention of safeguarding fairness and justice and protecting the peace of one side.

At the beginning of 2018, the rallying cry of the special struggle against organized crime and evil was sounded, and as an "old criminal court", Yang Jun was appointed as the head of the anti-gang crime office of the Shacheng District Court. The circumstances of the cases involving criminal syndicates and evil forces are complex, the number of people involved in the cases is relatively large, and the evidentiary materials are complicated; Yang Jun carefully sorts out each case, patiently listens to defense opinions, conscientiously reads the file materials, and works day and night without forgetting himself.

Yang Jun's body had already issued a warning signal. In September 2018, during a court session, Yang Jun's nose suddenly bleeds non-stop, and the blood stains the robe red. Colleagues advised him to adjourn the trial, and he pressed his hands to the sides of his nose, and after a simple cessation of bleeding, continued until the end of the trial.

The last word of your life

Saturday, July 25, 2020, is the birthday of Yang Chang, the son of Yang Jun.

Yang Jun was going to go to Wuhan with his wife to reunite with his son, who had just joined the work. A full-day trial committee meeting failed to allow him to travel with his wife. At about 4:30 p.m., Yang Jun sent a WeChat message to his son: Stay in a hotel or a dormitory tonight?

Yang Chang replied: Dormitory.

Yang Jun: Is the bed in the dormitory so narrow that you can sleep? Don't make your mother miserable.

Yang Chang replied: There is only half a bed.

Yang Jun: Give a good place for your mother to sleep.

No one expected that this WeChat full of affection would become his last conversation with his son.

In the eyes of his wife Zhang Jin, Yang Jun is an introverted person, not sociable, in addition to liking to drink strong tea and no other hobbies, doing housework is even if you exercise.

Every weekend, as long as he has time, Yang Jun will cook a delicious meal for his wife, and then plunge into the study to do work-related things. The chair in the study still has the imprint of his sitting for a long time.

After 30 years of marriage, Yang Jun and his wife have never had a red face, and the only "red face" is because of the case. One year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, a distant relative came to the door because of the case, Yang Jun insisted on not seeing, Zhang Jin was afraid of hurting his family affection, and advised him to see him and explain the principles clearly. Yang Jun immediately became angry: "See you today, tomorrow other relatives will come to the door, and in the future, they may be friends, classmates, and even parties to the case. Since then, he has made "three no's" demands on his family that "they are not allowed to greet the case, are not allowed to accept gifts, and are not allowed to inquire about the facts of the case." The "three no's" have never been made an exception in this family.

Zhang Jin still remembers a sentence from Yang Jun: If you offend people, you can; sorry for the law, no!

On July 25, Yang Jun's colleagues were also unforgettable.

At the meeting of the review committee in the morning, Yang Jun got up from time to time and took a few steps and then sat down, repeating it several times... It was the pain that made him fidgety. Colleagues present saw his abnormality and persuaded him to go to the hospital, but he refused. At 6 p.m., the meeting ended, and he continued to discuss a case involving a triad with his colleagues.

This was the twenty-second day of Yang Jun's continuous work.

At about 9 p.m., Yang Jun suddenly felt severe pain in his chest and back, and was taken to the hospital by his colleagues, and the diagnosis result was that the main artery dissection ruptured. Doctors recommend urgent transfer to a hospital in Wuhan for surgery. Although the operation was successful, due to complicated subarachnoid hemorrhage and serious brain injury, Yang Jun fell into a severe coma without getting off the operating table.

In the early morning of July 29, Yang Jun passed away.

Just before entering the operating room, Yang Jun, who had been forbidden to speak by the doctor, forcibly endured the pain and called the hospital leader: "The black-related case I have at hand cannot be solved, please ask my colleagues to help grasp it." ”

This was Yang Jun's last phone call and the last one in his life.

Two buttons on a pen

"Comrade Xiao Ting, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Xiao Ting, the judge's assistant, still keeps a note written to her by Yang Jun in July 2018. Taking out this note written on the scratch paper, Xiao Ting couldn't help but blush: "I'm still too slow to refuel, if I can be alone early, I can share a few more cases for President Yang." At most, he had to hold seven or eight court sessions a day, because the defendants were detained in different places, sometimes running several places a day. ”

"After President Yang died, another judge and I cut a button on his robe and treasured it." Xiao Ting said that this button always reminds herself to be like President Yang and adhere to the duties and beliefs of a judge.

Judge Zhang Zhihao was Yang Jun's apprentice. Zhang Zhihao said that President Yang is a person who uses his life to safeguard fairness and justice. In order to ensure justice, regardless of the size of the case, he must synthesize multiple pieces of evidence to corroborate each other and form a chain of evidence before making a judgment.

What impressed Zhang Zhihao was the case of illegally absorbing deposits from the public. "Because of the complexity of the case, President Yang asked me to check whether there were any errors in the appraisal materials, and I didn't think so at first, but when I checked the materials, I found that the identity cards of several fundraising participants were wrong, which would lead to the execution of the money not being given to me, and the losses could not be recovered." This incident woke me up and made me gradually develop the habit of carefully reviewing every aspect of the case. ”

"He always patiently teaches young people to use legal thinking to think about work." Zhang Zhihao's voice trembled a little, "He once said to me that in handling cases, we must strictly follow the provisions of the law and the principle of evidence, and the parties ask you not to go, and do not take benefits to you. ”

Zhang Zhihao is now using the original Yang Jun's desk, and there is a gray "Hero 100" pen in the pen holder, which was commonly used by Yang Jun before he died. "As I sat at his desk and used his fountain pen, I had a conviction that I would be like him, with fairness and justice in every case."

"He is our leader 'Yang', and his concern for his colleagues can be seen everywhere in his work." Female judge Yuan Xin recalled that once when she went to Songzi City for a trial, Yang Jun could not bear the female colleague to drive a long distance, and she held the steering wheel herself, and after arriving in Songzi, she did not have time to catch her breath before the court was held. Looking at The tired Yang Jun, Yuan Xin asked half-jokingly: "You are working intensively every day, what if you bow down to the trial work?" ”

Yang Jun replied that if there really was a day, it would be a correct path.

"I didn't expect it, it became a slur." When he said this, Yuan Xin's tears burst out of his eyes.