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In 2020, courts across the country upheld the principle that every
judicial miscarriage must be corrected, changing original rulings of
1,818 criminal cases after retrials, according to the annual work report
of China's top court. The report was submitted by the Supreme People's Court to the ongoing
fourth session of 13th National People's Congress, the country's top
legislature, for deliberation, on Monday. The report took a high-profile case involving Zhang Yuhuan as an example. Zhang, a native of Jiangxi province, had his name cleared in August
after the Jiangxi High People's Court ruled that there was insufficient
evidence for his intentional homicide conviction after a retrial. Before
that, he had been detained for about 27 years. According to the report, a total of 1,040 people were announced not
guilty last year as evidence in their cases could not prove their
convictions. To guarantee defendants' legitimate rights in trials, courts
nationwide also offered lawyer-related services 122,000 times last year,
the report says. Additionally, 414,000 defendants with minor offenses were given
non-custodial punishments, and 12,000 others were exempt from criminal
penalties, according to the report.
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