Lawyers study 1995 execution case files
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Lawyers yesterday finished studying the case files in a possible wrongful conviction case from 1995, the first time they had been granted full access to the documentation.
Nie Shubin, a 21-year-old factory worker, was executed for raping and killing a woman in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China’s Hebei Province.
In 2005, Wang Shujin, who was wanted for three other rape-murder cases, confessed to the crime. But, despite repeated requests from Nie’s lawyers, the Hebei Higher People’s Court refused to show them the complete case files.
Last December, the Shandong Higher People’s Court, under orders from the Supreme People’s Court, began reviewing Nie’s case and, on Monday, allowed Nie’s lawyers, Li Shuting and Chen Guangwu, access to the files, The Beijing News reported.
“Having gone through the full files, I found the verdict was made on shaky ground and there were severe procedural problems,” Li said. Li told the newspaper that they would also be reading Wang’s case files.
Currently, Nie’s verdict stands because the Hebei higher court didn’t believe Wang’s claim at an appeal hearing in 2007.
Wang, who was sentenced to death in March that year for raping three women and killing two of them, had hoped to earn leniency because of his confession. He is currently in jail.
When judges from the Shandong higher court questioned Wang last week, he said he had been forced to deny involvement in the Shijiazhuang case.
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