Half an hour passed in a flash.
Soon, it was time for court to begin.
Led by a staff member, Su Bai, Li Xuezhen, and Xie Jingmei entered the courtroom.
As the court clerk read out the courtroom rules and other relevant matters, the proceedings began.
The three Collegial Panel Members walked up to the trial bench.
Zhou Guangyu, serving as presiding judge, struck the gavel. "Court is now in session."
At the sound of the gavel, everyone sat down.
Immediately afterward.
Zhou Guangyu began a brief preliminary conference for the hearing.
The general content followed the same procedure as before: verifying the participants' identities and information.
And announcing the identities of the collegial panel members.
For this hearing at the Sudu High Court, the three Collegial Panel Members were Presiding Judge Zhou Guangyu and Judges Yang Qifan and Li Peng.
Meanwhile.
The prosecution had two lawyers: lead counsel Wang Kai and Assistant Lawyer Sun Meng.
At the defendants' seats, since the cases were being heard jointly, several people were present.
Wu Guoxing, the man who had killed Fang Zhihui, his parents, and his Litigation Lawyer were all in attendance.
At the defendants' seats on the other side were Wang Yuan, her parents, and her litigation counsel.
This case was relatively complicated.
Because this hearing combined two cases.
First, the appellant's request was to overturn the first-instance judgment against Wu Guoxing.
Second, a determination and judgment were needed regarding the case filed against Wang Yuan and the charges against her.
These two cases were closely connected.
The Sudu High Court therefore attached considerable importance to the case, assigning Vice President Zhou Guangyu and two other mid-level officials to hear it together.
The participants' information was verified and confirmed to be correct.
Presiding Judge Zhou Guangyu began asking about and confirming