On November 22, upstream journalists (weChat: shangyounews) learned from the Sichuan Provincial High People's Court that in response to the November 21 publication of Upstream News, "Li Jin, the Wrongdoer: When the Murder Occurred, I Was 700 Kilometers Away" reported that the Sichuan Provincial High Court had launched a retrial review procedure, "currently under review, the work has not yet reached relevant results."
Li Jin said that he looked forward to the Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court to give him a conclusion at an early date.
On November 7, 2019, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, talked about what happened that year, and Li Jin wept bitterly. Photo / Upstream journalist Hu Lei
On December 26, 2002, the Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court rendered the (1999) Chuan Xing Zhong Zi No. 444 Final Ruling, upholding the Chengdu Railway Transport Intermediate Court's judgment that Li Jin had been convicted of robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, and found that "(Li Jin) entered the house with a crowbar and a dagger and hit and stabbed Yao Suhua and Bai Helin, who were sleeping in the window and on the adjacent bed, to the head and chest, which eventually led to the death of the two victims.
Li Jin said that when he was working in Yingjiang, Yunnan Province, 700 kilometers away, when the case occurred, Li Jin's boss also confirmed this statement to Li Jin's lawyer and upstream journalists.
The reporter learned in the interview that in the first and second trials of the robbery cases involving Li Jin, there was no objective evidence to confirm that he appeared at the scene of the murder, the fingerprints and footprints collected at the scene could not be confirmed to be left by Li Jin, and the Chengdu Railway Transportation Branch of the Sichuan Provincial People's Procuratorate also held in the first-instance protest of the case that the trial procedure of the case was seriously illegal.
The prosecution's counter-appeal and Lee Jin's 2004 complaint in prison. Photo / Upstream journalist Hu Lei
On November 22, the staff of the Propaganda and Education Office of the Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court responded to the upstream news reporter that they had noticed the relevant reports on Li Jin's case, "According to our understanding, the current case has entered the retrial review stage, the review is not over, and our attitude is still very high." After the retrial review is completed, we will issue a relevant information circular in due course. ”
Li Jin, who is working in Yunnan, said that he thanked the media and the majority of netizens for their concern for the case, and at present, while working at home, he waited for the results of the retrial review of the Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court, "My retrial application was submitted through the lawyer on May 27 this year, and it is almost half a year since then, and I hope that the judges of the Sichuan Provincial High Court will complete the review as soon as possible and give me a conclusion." ”
Upstream journalist Hu Lei