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In China, Gu Kailai confesses in murder trial, court says

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Simpson was acquitted of murder in 1995, a well-connected Chinese lawyer pointed to the case as proof of the failure of the American judicial system."); gigya.socialize.showShareBarUI(showShareBarUI_params); }); 1 2 next |   single page By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times August 9, 2012, 8:52 p.m.

BEIJING — AfterO.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder in 1995, a well-connected Chinese lawyer pointed to the case as proof of the failure of the American judicial system.

"An American trial always gives bad people a chance to take advantage of the loopholes," the lawyer, Gu Kailai, wrote in a 1998 book about her experiences working in the United States. "The Chinese judicial system is fairest.... If you kill somebody, they'll arrest you, try you and shoot you."

On Thursday, Gu, the wife of former Politburo member Bo Xilai, was on the receiving end of Chinese justice. She appeared in court on charges of poisoning British businessman Neil Heywood.

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Lawyers needed all of seven hours to present evidence in the case. There was no jury at Hefei Intermediate People's Court, no defense counsel to cross-examine witnesses — in fact hardly any witnesses at all. The evidence was presented in the form of prepared statements, with the exception of forensic evidence showing that Heywood had been poisoned.

At the end of the session, a court official held a news conference at a nearby hotel to announce that Gu, 53, and a codefendant, Zhang Xiaojun, 33, her family's butler, had confessed to murdering Heywood.

"The defendants did not dispute the accusation of intentional homicide," the deputy director of the court, Tang Yigan, told foreign reporters, who had been kept away from the courthouse, waiting in the rain behind a police cordon.

Despite the reported confessions, the court's official verdict will be handed down at the same time as sentencing.

The 41-year-old Heywood, a longtime family friend, was found dead Nov. 15 in a hotel room in Chongqing, the central city where Bo was Communist Party secretary.

Reading a statement, Tang said Gu had invited Heywood to visit her in Chongqing with the intention of murdering him because of a financial dispute.

At the hotel, she and Heywood drank. After getting drunk and vomiting, Heywood requested water. But the water he was given was poisoned.

"All the facts are clear and the evidence sufficient," Tang said.

Although Heywood's body was promptly cremated, a police official had taken a blood sample. And closed-circuit video showed Gu going into the hotel room where the body was later discovered.

To a large extent, the Chinese legal system has been as much on trial as the defendants.

Gu was taken into custody in March, under a form of extrajudicial detention known as shuanggui, which is reserved for Communist Party members and officials. Although her family and Zhang's hired defense lawyers, they were not permitted to meet with the defendants and the lawyers were not in court. Instead, the court assigned attorneys to represent them.

"The criminal law says a defendant can hire his own lawyer, but in a sensitive case like this, the government didn't want to take any chances," said Si Weijiang, a criminal defense attorney in Beijing. "They wanted to control the outcome and make sure the lawyers didn't leak to the press."

Even without her own lawyer, it appears that Gu enjoyed privileges not accorded to ordinary criminal defendants. Chinese television Thursday showed her in business attire, a black suit over a white blouse, instead of the orange prison garb that defendants usually wear in court. She appeared to have gained weight as well, so much so that bloggers Thursday night were questioning whether it was really Gu who appeared on television.

Chinese law carries the death penalty for premeditated murder, but there are hints she will be spared, with the blame increasingly placed on Heywood.

The statement read by Tang said Gu believed that "Heywood physically endangered the physical safety of her son."

"The victim is partially responsible for causing the crime," Tang said at the news briefing, which was later broadcast on state television. "When Bogu Kailai committed her crime, her ability to control her actions was weaker than an ordinary person."

The statement also said Zhang should get a lesser sentence than hers because he was only an "accessory to the crime."

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Sure the Chinese sysem is tough.  But still, the United States, with 5% of the world's population, has 25% of the world's prisoners, with the highest incarceration rate in the world.  We have more prisoners than China, with nearly four times the U.S. population; our jails are overflowing with poor people awaiting trial, sometimes on quite petty charges, simply because they can't make bail.  (And don't fall for the canard that China just shoots theirs.  That is NOT true.)

upWising at 9:25 PM August 09, 2012

The vast majority of cases in the United States at all levels never even go to trial.  The Government never really has to mount a case, the police never really have to organize and present evidence, a jury never has to be formed, much less listen to evidence and weigh outcomes.  In roughly 90% of more of all cases, pre-trial bargaining arrives at a decision that is then rubber-stamped by a judge.  So it is the immense power of the State against a solitary defendant, who may or may not have money for an attorney, and who may or may not understand the process, or even the charges against him.  The defendant may be locked up for months on end, income gone and bills piling up, faced with "bargainng" from a jail cell with an orange jump suit on.

No lawyer, you say?  It was ONLY IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR, that the Supreme Court, 5-4 as always, decided that defendants DO have right to attorney's help in pre-trial plea bargaining. What a novel idea! What kind of help you ask?  That is subject to much more litigation and, for a long time, will vary tremendously from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and from defendant to defendant.  Money, of course, will be the deciding factor in who gets good advice, and who gets 5 minutes from an over-worked public defender.

Osaka48 at 8:35 PM August 09, 2012

This has all been planned out carefully by China's medieval justice system...no "jury of her peers" of course as such a system would be a "threat" to the Party's leadership...totally corrupt.  Don't expect any "improvement" to China's justice systme anytime soon as corruption is rampant in "high offices" and nobody there is going to vote for a more "just" system...that would be like hanging yourself.  China is still like a 3rd world country...rampant human rights violations...a corrupt government at EVERY level...and BRIBERY will get you everything you need down to an early dentist's appointment.  THIS is exactly what caused the Tienanmen Square riots more than a decade ago...NOTHING has changed. 

The Chinese say that they are proud of their IMPROVEMENTS.  What improvements?  Scholars and the rich are fleeing China in droves...the current government seems to be in CHAOS, and the PLA (military) seems to be CHOMPING AT THE BIT to excercise more control and initiate more aggressive action in the So. and East China Seas.  DANGEROUS.  WHO will prevail over the ANXIOUS PLA? 

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