Chapter 322: Petition filed, High Court: accepted! Jurisdiction transferred
The request for a second-instance hearing was rejected outright by the Intermediate People's Court.
As for that, what could he say?
Honestly, it was very unreasonable.
The conditions for an appeal were having new factual grounds or believing that the judgment's interpretation of the law was unreasonable.
The evidence in this case was weak, so Su Bai had not submitted any new evidence.
He had merely appealed on the grounds that the law was inapplicable and that the authority for its interpretation was insufficient.
An appeal like this-
Honestly, it could easily lead to a certain situation. What situation?
The second-instance court would decide that the claim of an unreasonable legal interpretation was incorrect.
What did that mean?
It meant that the Intermediate People's Court believed there was nothing wrong with the Basic Court's application of the law in its judgment.
There were insufficient grounds to overturn the first-instance judgment or make any other changes to the ruling.
Then it rejected the appeal.
To put it bluntly, the second-instance court took the first-instance court's side.
It said the grounds for appeal were insufficient and dismissed it.
Was there any way to resolve a situation like this?
The victim's side could lodge a protest.
But once the defendant's appeal was rejected, he could only submit another application for a retrial.
That said.
Rejections of appeals like this were common, such as in a certain Lala case.
When the lawyer challenged the first-instance judgment and requested an appeal, the court rejected it.
Rejection of an appeal meant dismissal at the second instance.
At that point, a retrial had to be requested, and the request could be made to a higher court.
But...
As for this case, rejecting it was clearly not particularly reasonable.