Regarding the request for a supervisory review this time.
In one respect, Su Bai believed that, as far as the court was concerned,
establishing that it had perverted the law in judgment would be somewhat difficult.
His earlier arguments had been made from the standpoint of fairness under the law.
From that standpoint, Jiang Feng's judgment did indeed have problems.
But problems of this kind, while falling within the scope of supervision, did not necessarily constitute unlawful or criminal conduct.
However... the request submitted this time was not solely for a supervisory review of the court.
After all, during the first-instance proceedings, Wu Yan's and He Juan's relatives had failed to recuse themselves despite knowing that they should.
Although there was no evidence proving that their relatives had interfered with the first-instance judgment,
the matter could certainly be referred for a supervisory review under these circumstances.
Thus, the focus of the request for a supervisory review in this case was not the second-instance court's judgment or the second-instance prosecution.
Instead, it was whether recusal had taken place during the first-instance proceedings.
Phew...
After submitting the request for a supervisory review, Su Bai let out a long breath.
Meanwhile...
Li Xuezhen spoke quietly. "Lawyer Su..."
"Our request for a supervisory review focuses on whether there was proper recusal during the first-instance proceedings..."
"But the presiding judge in the second-instance trial was clearly biased, and he didn't make his judgment in accordance with procedural law..."
"He was obviously heavily biased."
"Why aren't we emphasizing that?"
Su Bai explained, "Because, in terms of trial procedure, Jiang Feng didn't do very much that was unlawful."
"Although he was biased, we have no evidence proving that he acted with subjective intent."
"So the main focus of this request for a supervisory review is the