"Chinese citizens, news media come to defense of accused police killer" by Cara Anna, Associated Press | August 28, 2008
SHANGHAI, China - The murder case was supposed to be simple: A jobless man accused of killing six police officers in a rare stabbing rampage in China's largest city.
But the Chinese public surprised authorities, sympathizing with Yang Jia despite the violent attack and asking whether he was driven to his alleged crime by police abuse of power.
Concerns grew when a state news media report said Yang tried but failed to sue Shanghai police for psychological damage he claimed to have suffered during an interrogation last year - indicating the killings were in revenge.
Several Chinese papers have hinted that Yang was wronged and demanded a fair trial. But some say he did not get one, pointing out that his assigned lawyer works for the same government that oversees the police station where the officers were killed.
One wonders where AmeriKa's papers are.
Oh, that's right, shoveling shit and pushing lies!!!
Shanghai news media this week have been silent on the increasingly sensitive trial, which was delayed until the Olympics were over. The verdict, reached Tuesday as reporters hovered outside the closed courtroom, has not been announced. A death sentence is likely.
"That's the so-called 'open, fair trial,' " Yan Lieshan, editor of the respected Southern Weekly newspaper, said yesterday in a phone interview. "I think people get what's going on. Let's see how this thing gets a happy ending."
Chinese have grown increasingly aware of their legal rights in recent years, but justice remains elusive. The country continues to have problems with closed trials and a lack of due process.
Take a look at the article below this and then tighten your colon!
You might want to blow some chunks when you take in the AMERIKAN MSM HYPOCRISY!!!
Only this summer, criminal defense lawyers got the right to meet with their clients without official permission, request evidence from prosecutors, and call witnesses in court.
Gitmo!
The attack came a month before the highly anticipated Summer Olympics, startling a host city that had already tightened its security. The 28-year-old Yang was accused of storming into a police station July 1 and knifing officers, killing five and wounding four. One of the wounded died the next day.
Yang, who is from Beijing, reportedly told police he was seeking revenge after officers from the station interrogated him last year for riding an unlicensed bicycle. There was public anger at the police killings, but another point of view quickly emerged.
Southern Weekend published a long, sympathetic front-page story asking what could have made a young, quiet man who liked to travel want to take so many lives. "I'd rather break the law than live with injustice my whole life," the newspaper said Yang told police.
The state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that Yang sued the officers who had interrogated him for psychological damage, but the claim was rejected. Last month, a man in the nearby city of Suzhou was arrested - by Shanghai police - and accused of spreading online rumors that the police interrogating Yang had damaged his genitals.
In their defense, Shanghai police last month released audio of last year's incident, showing Yang immediately arguing with the officer who stopped him. "Yang Jia's abnormal behavior is a measure of abnormality in our own society," said an editorial last month in the Pearl River Evening News, adding that putting Yang to death quickly would stir up a public already skeptical about how the case was handled.
Another editorial last month in The Beijing News called for Yang's appointed lawyer, Xie Youming, to drop the case because he's a legal adviser for Shanghai's Zhabei district, which oversees the police station where the attack occurred."Now digest this:
"US judge voices fear public will be shut out of detainee trials; Also concerned over rights of the defendants" by Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press | August 28, 2008
WASHINGTON - A federal judge overseeing cases against dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees said yesterday that he fears the public - and the detainees themselves - will be locked out of the courtroom when evidence in the case is scrutinized for the first time.
And the shit jew media of AmeriKa is criticizing China?
Will the HYPOCRITICAL CHUTZPAH ever end?
It's unclear what those hearings will look like, however. Normally, lawyers can cross-examine witnesses and hearsay evidence is prohibited. But since much of the evidence in these cases comes from intelligence sources, key witnesses won't be able to appear in court and lawyers will have a difficult time challenging the sources of some information.
China's system sounds BETTER than OURS!!!!!
Court rules, then, are up in the air and might change from judge to judge. "We're in uncharted territory here, all of us," US District Judge Richard J. Leon said.
He said he would also decide whether to assume that government evidence, simply because it comes from the government, is accurate and authentic.
Oh, I LIKE THIS JUDGE!!!! You SEE THAT?!
Maybe we got a CLOSET 9/11 TRUTHER on the BENCH, 'eh?
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