Lawyer

Chapter 318 The Best Result!

"There is no one who does not get his shoes wet when he often walks by the river. It is the same for you to do non-litigation projects. If you catch up with an irresponsible team leader who dares to issue any legal documents and knock on any chapters, the risk is absolute. It's out of control, and it won't be long before the team's lawyers have to resign.

Therefore, whether the project makes money is one thing, and whether the legal risk is controllable or not is another matter. The risk still needs to be assessed, otherwise it will be very dangerous. "Xie Youhe said with a smile.

"So you chose to be a case lawyer instead of doing projects or cases, right?" Mei Xiaoting said with a chuckle.

Xie Youhe was drinking a drink, and was almost choked by Mei Xiaoting's words: "Ahem, Xiaomei, your mouth is really powerful, be careful not to find your in-law's family."

"Cut, what is the in-law's family? If my aunt is rich, she will rush to post it. Before, there were two female lawyers in our team. They stayed in the valley for two years for an IPO project, and their boyfriends blew it." , how is he doing now?" Mei Xiaoting said nonchalantly.

"How is it?" Fang Yi asked curiously.

"What else can I do, keep looking for a boyfriend!" Xie Youhe interrupted.

As soon as his words came out, Fang Yi laughed out loud.

"Lawyer Xie, your vision is low. Now those two female lawyers are the main force of the IPO project in our team. They live in a villa at home and drive a BMW to and from get off work all day. I don't know how many men pursue them. There are always flowers. .

Lawyer Sima is right, a woman must be financially independent. "Mei Xiaoting said confidently.

"Well, what you said is right!" Xie Youhe said with a smile.

At the beginning of April, when the winter jasmine bloomed, the judgment of Guo Guanghuai's case came down. The court found that the defendant Guo Guanghuai committed the crime of intentional homicide and sentenced him to death (immediate execution) and deprivation of political rights for life.

After the verdict, Fang Yi invited Mr. Guo to the law firm. Because Mrs. Guo couldn't bear the excitement of her son's execution, she was admitted to the hospital on the day she got the news and never came out.

"Lawyer Fang, my son deserves what he deserves. I understand what you said, so let's do it!" Mr. Guo said disheartened.

"I think I can try to appeal, what if it succeeds. I have communicated with Director Wan before that there is no need to pay additional fees for the second trial, and the [-] yuan includes the first and second trial." Fang Yi said.

Mr. Guo was taken aback. Originally, he didn't want to spend any more money for that unworthy son. After all, his family was poor. Before compensating the victim's family, he had already taken out the coffin.If I hadn't been working as a manager in the company before retirement and had some capital in hand, I would have sold the house and land long ago.

"What you said is true?" Mr. Guo looked at Fang Yi, who nodded, "If you don't believe me, you can call Lawyer Wan to verify."

"Okay, then I will trouble you and write an appeal." No matter how heinous the son is, he is his own flesh and blood. Not everyone can do the righteous killing of relatives. At this time, although Mr. Guo knows that the hope is slim, he also wants to try. try.

After Fang Yi wrote the petition, he went to the detention center to meet with Guo Guanghuai. After telling him about the appeal, Guo Guanghuai signed his name on the petition.Anyone who has a glimmer of hope in life would not want to try, after all, it is better to live than to die.

The appeal was filed soon.Fang Yi also knew that there was little hope, but he still wanted to try his luck, but luck was not on his side this time.The result of the second trial came down quickly, the appeal was rejected and the original judgment was upheld, and it was reported to the Supreme People's Court for approval according to law.

The power to review the death penalty was in the hands of the provincial high courts until 31. Later, in order to strictly apply the death penalty, on October 20, [-], the Fourth Session of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress No.[-] A legal amendment was voted to transfer the approval power of death penalty cases to the Supreme People's Court.

This is the most significant reform of the most severe punishment in China - the death penalty.This decision came into effect on January [-], [-].

(Interested readers can refer to Article No. 17 of the Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China)
After the results of the second trial came out, even Fang Yi was paralyzed, this time it was completely hopeless.But just when everyone felt that Guo Guanghuai was bound to die, the Supreme People's Court ruled not to approve the death sentence of the defendant Guo Guanghuai based on the facts confirmed by the review and the fact that the defendant's father assisted in the arrest of the defendant, and sent it back to the Provincial Higher People's Court for a new trial. .

After Fang Yi got the news, he immediately told Wan Kefa. The fat old man said it was incredible. The Supreme Court did not approve the death penalty, which meant that Guo Guanghuai would not die.

Fang Yi also kept expressing emotion in his heart: If this case had been judged before [-], Guo Guanghuai would have been in the cold by now.

After Mr. Guo got the news, he immediately ran to the hospital and told his wife who was lying on the hospital bed. Mrs. Guo was refreshed and shouted to be discharged from the hospital to go home. This made Mr. Guo think that she was returning to the past, so he called for a doctor to examine her. After going through it again, I was relieved to go through the discharge procedures.

The Provincial High Court opened the trial again, and Fang Yi participated in the trial as a defender. Although the facts remained the same, the defense remained the same, and the procedures were still followed, his mood at this time was very different from before.

In the end, the Provincial High Court commuted the sentence of the defendant Guo Guanghuai to death for the crime of intentional homicide, with a two-year reprieve (also known as "death reprieve"), depriving him of political rights for life, and at the same time deciding to limit the commutation of his sentence.

Although it is still a death sentence, it does not need to be executed immediately, with a two-year reprieve, there is a high probability that Guo Guanghuai will not die.Although the son's release from prison is far away, the old couple of the Guo family miss their son, so they can go to the prison to see Guo Guanghuai, so they don't always have to wipe their tears in front of the photos.This is the best result!
Although Fang Yi felt that this case did not help much, the old couple of the Guo family were very grateful to him. When they were all desperate, it was Fang Yi who persuaded them not to give up and continue to appeal, and did not charge an extra lawyer's fee ( In fact, Fang Yi was afraid that the Guo family members would be dissatisfied with the outcome of the case, so he ran to Director Wan to complain and complain).

Wan Kefa was also very satisfied with Fang Yi's work, at least he didn't complain like some lawyers did, who shirked the case, treated the client very responsibly, and settled the client without the presence of Director Wan.Especially in this kind of relationship case, Wankefa really didn't want to participate.

After Fang Yi reported the Guo family's case, he was about to turn around and leave, but Wan Kefa stopped him.

"Lawyer Fang, you are a doctor of criminal law, and you have done a lot of criminal cases in the past few years. What do you think of criminal lawyers?" Wan Kefa looked at Fang Yi seriously.

“I remember someone saying this: criminal defense lawyers are such a group of people—they are destined to work hard to save the life of their clients, and they are also destined to cry for their clients to regain their freedom or get closer to freedom. I think this What you said makes sense." Fang Yi was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said.

　Due to review issues, this chapter was posted late, please forgive me!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)