After 27 years of injustice in prison, I was released from prison covered with scars, amputated toes and broken fingernails! What happened?

On April 20th, 20 18, Liu Zhonglin was acquitted.

Liu Zhonglin was originally a farmer in Huimin Village, Dongfeng County, Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province.

1990 10, a female body was dug up by the villagers in Huimin Village, Lingyun Township, dongliao county City, Jilin Province. At that time, 22-year-old Liu Zhonglin was identified as a suspect. 1In July, 994, Liaoyuan Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liu Zhonglin to death for intentional homicide, with a two-year suspension. In August of the following year, the Jilin Provincial High Court ruled that Liu Zhonglin's death sentence was suspended.

After commutation, Liu Zhonglin was 48 years old when he was released from prison.

After waiting for more than two years, on April 20, 20 18, the Higher People's Court of Jilin Province retrial found that Liu Zhonglin's intentional homicide case was "unclear in facts and insufficient in evidence" and declared Liu Zhonglin innocent.

5 1 year-old received state compensation of 4.6 million yuan, which was the highest in similar cases at that time.

From Fat Man to "Murderer"

At that time, he was still a farmer who dropped out of primary school and began to grow corn. His family called him "Little Fatty".

1990101On October 28th, a female corpse was dug up in the crops of Huimin Village, and it was identified as Zheng, a girl who had been lost in the same village for one year. According to the cover news 20 18, on the night when the female body was found, the police dragged Liu Zhonglin out of bed, stuffed him into a police car and sent him to Liaoyuan detention center.

Cousin Chang Chunxiang said that shortly after the incident, his brother went back to the village once, sold his house and land for more than 4,000 yuan, left 200 yuan in the detention center for his brother, and then went to work in the south, and was adopted by his wife to a family in Shanxi, and never asked about the Liu family again.

Chang Chunxiang doesn't believe that little fatty can kill people. Every few months, he goes to the detention center by bike for two hours, leaving a new shirt, a pair of black square-toed shoes and 50 yuan or 100 yuan in cash. At that time, his monthly salary was 28 yuan, and the money was collected from relatives and friends.

After more than four years of investigation, prosecution and trial, Liu Zhonglin, as a criminal suspect and defendant, was not allowed to meet his relatives. It was not until July 1994, when the Liu Zhonglin case was pronounced in the first instance, that Chang Chunxiang saw Little Fatty again in court.

Although there was only Liu Zhonglin's own confession, no witnesses and no material evidence, Liaoyuan Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liu Zhonglin to intentional homicide and suspended his execution for two years. Chang Chunxiang was far away from Liu Zhonglin in the dock, only remembering that he was not fluent and was busy crying.

"clumsy"

After the verdict, Liu Zhonglin was transferred from Liaoyuan Detention Center to Changchun Prison.

Dongfeng county is more than 60 kilometers away from Changchun/kloc-0. It takes three or four hours to get to the prison, and it's already dusk when I come back from the visit. In those years, Chang Chunxiang suffered from cirrhosis, and it was not good to travel between the two places. The source of income has also been cut off, and the family owes a lot of money for medical treatment. He can't care about the little fat man in prison.

Liu Zhonglin felt forgotten. He wrote to the villagers, hoping that they would help him avenge his death and begged them to visit him, but no one visited him in the first ten years.

He is more withdrawn and talks less than before. In the cell of 12 people, he only talks to a person who claims to be wronged, ignores others and never explains his grievances. He thinks that everyone else deserves it, and he "has nothing in common".

In prison, every prisoner has to work, knit sweaters and make door and window frames, but Liu Zhonglin won't do it: I'm not guilty. Why should I work? He said he was beaten a lot for it, covered in injuries and bleeding nose. But he still disobeyed and refused to work, so that the old injury did not heal and added new injuries.

After being beaten, he still refused to communicate with others. When he gets angry, he breaks things, stainless steel pot, his job. When he catches something, he slaps it heavily on the ground, or hits it on the window glass, waiting for another beating.

Because he didn't work or smash anything, Liu Zhonglin was sent to the "trumpet"-the brig. In his memory, it was a cell with only a single bed, and there was nothing in it except an open toilet.

The trumpet is not in the main building of the prison. The wall is thin and ventilated on all sides. In winter, there are only two thin radiators at home, which are heated twice in the morning and evening. It was January when Liu Zhonglin was sent in, and the average daily temperature in Changchun was about minus 10 degrees Celsius. Although he is wearing cotton-padded clothes and trousers, his hands and feet are still cold.

Coming out of the "trumpet", Liu Zhonglin got the privilege of not having to work. On weekdays, he was only responsible for the hygiene of the prison room. Sweep the floor, mop the floor and clean the table. He did what he didn't do. When he is in a bad mood, he simply unfolds the quilt and sleeps under it.

He called his life style in prison "clumsy"-swearing in Northeast dialect, which means dull and stupid.

Liu Zhonglin was so "clumsy" for more than ten years, and then gradually calmed down. He pleaded guilty and got a reduced sentence. He also took part in labor, made doors and windows and tied brooms. After graduating from elementary school, he also borrowed a Xinhua dictionary from the subject, turned it over word for word, wrote down his experience of being wronged and sent it to the Jilin Provincial High Court. He wanted to complain for himself, but the letter sank to the bottom of the sea again and again.

26 years of scars

In Liaoyuan's hometown, Liu Zhonglin's elder sister-in-law and aunt always miss this nephew. They believe that he didn't kill anyone. Cousin Chang Chunxiang once knocked on the door from door to door in the village, hoping to find witnesses to the female corpse case or persuade someone to stand up and prove his cousin's character. Aunt persuaded her son-in-law Wang Guizhen to help her nephew.

Wang Guizhen promised to celebrate the Spring Festival in 2008. Later, he met Liu Zhonglin in Changchun's prison interview room. He asked Liu Zhonglin a question: "Did you kill anyone? If you kill him, you will serve a good sentence. You didn't kill him, my brother-in-law helped you complain. "

On the other side, Liu Zhonglin, in tears, stretched out his hands-ten broken blood-stained fingers were still swollen, and the nails on his fingertips were broken and scabbed. Liu Zhonglin said that's why he confessed more than ten years ago. "Brother-in-law, please complain for me, I can't go on."

Since then, Wang Guizhen has put down the fleet business of Inner Mongolia Coal Mine, frequently traveled between Changchun and Beijing, and started a 10 complaint journey. He always burns the midnight oil to save money for the hotel. When he arrived in Beijing, he stayed in a small hotel next to Tiantan Hospital for tens of dollars a night. Sometimes when the weather is fine and money is tight, he makes do with the underground passage in bridge opening. These two documents add up to more than 1000 pages. Wang Guizhen copied them and took them away. Every time you see a lawyer, you should leave a copy, and the consultation fee is at least several hundred yuan at a time.

The efforts of Liu Zhonglin, Wang Guizhen and lawyers finally paid off. On March 28th, 20 12, the Higher People's Court of Jilin Province put the case on file for retrial, but there was no court session since then. 2065 438+06 10 month, 16, Liu Zhonglin was released from prison, not acquitted, but released after serving his sentence.

My aunt's daughter, Wang Guizhen's wife, Wang Huanzhen, remembers that when my cousin left the prison, it was an afternoon when the cold wind hit people's hearts in the twelfth month. She hired a driver and waited at the prison gate in Changchun at 7 am. However, several groups of released prisoners came out, and she never heard her cousin's name again.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, someone read Liu Zhonglin, and a group of people in gray clothes and trousers came out. Wang Huanzhen tried to identify and saw the familiar round face. She didn't dare to call Little Fatty and asked, "Are you Liu Zhonglin?" The teenager 26 years ago is almost fifty years old. He looked down at the woman. "Are you my second sister?"

Wang Huanzhen began to wipe away tears, dragged her cousin to the car, changed her underwear into cotton-padded jacket and trousers, and fastened them one by one. Liu Zhonglin said, "Sister, don't cry. Everyone is out. Why are you crying? " He wanted to leave his new suede shoes in prison, but his cousin stopped him. She said, "Don't take anything out."

Compared with the little fat man in prison, Liu Zhonglin had many scars of different shades when he was released from prison. His right big toe was amputated and ten fingernails were broken. Chang Chunxiang said that his nails were gray, his fingertips were swollen, and blood occasionally oozed from the scab. He can barely hold chopsticks with his forefinger and thumb. The disability of his toes made it difficult for him to move. The two brothers climbed the mountain together, and they were fine when they climbed the mountain. When they went down the mountain, Liu Zhonglin could only move slowly sideways.