Recently, in the death penalty review case of Lin Moumou's drug trafficking, which was handled by Mr. Tang Jianbin, a senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, the Supreme People's Court revoked the judgment of the Higher People's Court of Jiangsu Province that sentenced Lin Moumou to death, and commuted Lin Moumou's sentence to a suspended sentence of death with a two-year execution period.
The first and second trial judgment of the case found the facts of the crime as follows: on February 2, 2017, He Moumou drove from Nanjing to Lufeng City, Guangdong Province, and purchased 1.8 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from Lin Moumou's boyfriend, Gu Moumou, and transported it back to Nanjing to sell it, and Lin Moumou contacted a source of supply for Gu Moumou for this sale of drugs. on February 22, He Moumou came to Lufeng City again to find Lin Moumou to exchange 1 kilogram of crystal methamphetamine of a bad quality that was purchased last time and purchased a batch of methamphetamine from Lin Moumou, He Moumou was arrested after driving back to Nanjing, and the investigating authorities seized 5143.28 grams of methamphetamine from the trunk of the vehicle.
The case entered the death penalty review stage in October 2020, Tang Jianbin lawyer accepted the commission as Lin Moumou's defense, after reading the file and meeting with the defendant, found that the case exists between the upper and lower families of the drug trade death penalty is accurately applied, the quantity of drugs in exchange for the purchase of drugs, the number of drugs seized and the number of drugs confessed to the number of transactions are inconsistent with the quantity of the number of the determination of the death penalty review stage of the change in the attitude of pleading guilty, the female defendant based on the emotional reasons for committing drug offenses, the impact of flawed identification evidence on sentencing, and many other evidentiary and legal application issues.
In the case of nearly 3 years during the death penalty review, Tang Jianbin lawyers met with Lin Moumou many times, many appointments with the Supreme People's Court death penalty review judge to express defense opinions and communicate the case, and finally the Supreme People's Court adopted many of the defense opinions of the Tang Jianbin lawyers, and made the judgment of not approving the death penalty taking into account the emotional, rational, and legal aspects.