King&Capital Law Firm lawyer Xu Wei handled the case of Zhang Mou suspected of opening a casino, due to the timely intervention of the lawyer, the client was released on bail pending trial. After the lawyer's defense, Zhang does not need to be held criminally liable, the investigating authorities lifted Zhang's bail pending trial, Zhang was finally acquitted.
Zhang is a company executive, because the company business and overseas casinos have links, by the foreign case authorities criminal detention. Due to the lawyer in recent years in the field of casinos have a lot of effective defense cases, the family came and quickly signed the commission. When the lawyer intervened in the case, the client was being detained in a foreign detention center.
This case is a special case, the number of people involved in dozens of people, the amount of more than 100 million, the first step of the work carried out - meeting, faced great challenges. The lawyers of the same prisoner shall not meet with each other at the same time, so the lawyers need to agree with each other in advance to meet with the time period, otherwise it will be “empty”, in the race against time during the detention period, the time period of meeting with the limitations, which has brought great challenges to the defense. The understanding of the case, the need for adequate meeting time to ensure that lawyers also have enough time to listen to the client's defense, to understand the client's claims. Important time point, or “fight” or “talk” strategy, more need to meet frequently to maintain unity with the client, to avoid the awkward effect of each talking. In the early stage of this case, through the most stupid “squatting” strategy, the lawyer was able to get more time to meet with the client, understand the basic situation of the case and the client's most realistic ideas, and finally achieve the result of effective defense. The meeting is not a trivial matter, and must be treated with caution.
After the meeting, the lawyer initially believed that: firstly, the jurisdiction of the case was controversial; secondly, the characterization of the case was controversial; thirdly, the content of the work that the client was in charge of did not have much intersection with the facts of the crime that he was mainly accused of.
The lawyer drew up a preliminary defense opinion, after obtaining the approval of the client and the case authorities and specific contractor for face-to-face in-depth communication, not only on the case itself there are doubts expressed opinions, but also combined with the specific circumstances of the client and the complexity of the case, standing in the case authorities on the point of view to analyze for the client to handle the bail after the benefits outweighs the disadvantages of the effect, and finally impressed the case officer. After this in-depth communication, the case authorities after discussion decided to first Zhang for bail. Lawyers in the follow-up work to assist Zhang and the case together with the authorities to find out Zhang involved in the case facts, and finally the investigating authorities that Zhang does not need to be held criminally responsible, will be removed from the list of suspects, not with other suspects and transferred to the examination and prosecution, and lifting the bail, the client was finally acquitted of the treatment.
