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鈥檚 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鈥檚 lawyers, the Hebei Higher People鈥檚 Court refused to show them the complete case files.
Last December, the Shandong Higher People鈥檚 Court, under orders from the Supreme People鈥檚 Court, began reviewing Nie鈥檚 case and, on Monday, allowed Nie鈥檚 lawyers, Li Shuting and Chen Guangwu, access to the files, The Beijing News reported.
鈥淗aving gone through the full files, I found the verdict was made on shaky ground and there were severe procedural problems,鈥 Li said. Li told the newspaper that they would also be reading Wang鈥檚 case files.
Currently, Nie鈥檚 verdict stands because the Hebei higher court didn鈥檛 believe Wang鈥檚 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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