Recently, the case of opening a casino, which was undertaken by Xu Wei's team of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, has achieved stage-by-stage defense results after several rounds of court hearings, in which the prosecuting authority changed the indictment based on the facts ascertained and the charge was changed from the crime of opening a casino to the crime of gambling, and the maximum sentence was changed from less than ten years to less than three years.

This case involves gambling money up to more than 10 million yuan, the amount is particularly huge, if convicted and sentenced for the crime of opening a casino, the maximum sentence can be up to ten years. The case is relatively unique, involving a certain industry goods transactions, the industry involved in gambling cases in the country is still the first, so the case is controversial, the impact of a wide range of dozens of people applied to participate in the first session of the hearing. After accepting the commission, the defense carefully read the file, met with the defendant to understand the facts of the case. On the basis of the team's systematic study and full argumentation, the team determined the idea of the defense of innocence and carried out a series of defense work.

The team of lawyers made several field visits, in-depth understanding of the industry model, summed up the industry's operating law and combined with the evidence in the case, formed the idea of not guilty defense, before the formal trial, internal organization of the mock court (screenshots) to consolidate not guilty of the defense, targeted collection of evidence of innocence, apply for witnesses for the defense to appear in the court, submit new electronic data and documentary evidence, the prosecutor in the court explicitly endorsed the trial to determine the key facts after two rounds of court hearings As well as continuous exchanges of views with the case unit, the current Prosecutor's Office has taken the initiative to withdraw the charge of opening a casino to change the prosecution to a gambling offense, and the charge has been changed from heavy to light. The maximum sentence was also reduced from less than ten years' imprisonment to less than three years' imprisonment, which greatly reduced the defendant's sentence and realized effective defense.

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