Xinhua News, 2009-04-26
At the appeal hearing of He Xiaoguo and Zhao Qiang, earlier sentenced to death and 15 years imprisonment for robbing, killing and burning the body of a local railway employee, the Shanxi High Court's Second Criminal Court arranged for five “citizen representatives”—two People's Congress delegates, two Political Consultative Conference members and a school teacher, according to another article—to offer their opinions on how the court should adjudicate the case. The representatives' participation was meant “to increase the degree of recognition among the victim's family and society that the case was justly adjudicated and to urge the defendants to admit their crimes and obey the law,” as well as to allow the court to “fully grasp the opinion of the masses about this case.”
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