Chapter 314: The verdict, confession and acceptance of punishment, an apology thirteen years late
Honestly, not even a movie would dare depict the way the real culprit was found.
Movies needed logic. Reality did not.
When the public prosecutor from the second hearing in Pingyuan Province sent Su Bai a message saying that the real culprit had been found,
Su Bai was a little surprised too.
They found the real culprit?
At such a conveniently timed moment?
It inevitably reminded Su Bai of another case.
A man had been convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
Yet after that sentence, just a few months before his execution,
his wife came back!
As it turned out, she had not died. The dead woman was someone else!
Someone had mistaken the woman for his wife, and he had ended up under arrest.
Never mind an incomplete chain of evidence-the victim in that case was not even the right person!
All sorts of coincidences had piled up, nearly leading to the execution of an innocent man!
Was that a coincidence or what?
Did it make any logical sense?
It made no sense. You could not have made up a case like that, yet it had actually happened.
That case had circulated in the legal community for a long time.
If that man's wife had returned a few months later, then that case...
Well...
What could one say? It would have ranked among the country's most egregious wrongful convictions.
Returning to this case, its circumstances and the real culprit
also made Su Bai curious about who it was, so he sent a reply asking.
"Prosecutor Wang, how was the real culprit in this case caught?"
"How did you suddenly find him?"
Prosecutor Wang sent a voice message straight