On New Year's Eve, Mr. Xu Wei, a partner of King&Capital Law Firm, and Mr. He Shunqi, a trainee lawyer, represented a client who was detained for the crime of damaging the computer information system and was successfully released from bail during the retrial of the first trial, so that he was finally reunited with his family for the Chinese New Year after being separated from them for a number of days.

This is a case involving specialized knowledge of computer information system with complicated background. L, a technician of an internet company, was involved in a suspected conflict of interest between Company A and Company B. The case was filed after a report was made by Company B. L had been detained, released on bail, placed under residential surveillance, detained, and arrested in a variety of criminal coercive measures.

The case was remanded by the court of second instance for a retrial due to unclear facts, and the prosecution and defense sides disagreed significantly on the “causality” and “seriousness” of the acts of sabotage at the first instance stage of the retrial. On the premise of the prosecution to change the indictment to increase the term of imprisonment of the client, Xu Wei's team of lawyers, based on the facts of the case, combined with computer-related knowledge and experience in defending similar cases, argued for the client.

In the end, the court decided to change the compulsory measure to release on bail pending trial, and the client regained his freedom. New Year's Eve, is the most important day of the year, is also a day of family reunion, can get today's results, the client and his family on the lawyer's work expressed great satisfaction.