Qi Xiaoling, a senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, represented a police officer who was charged with organizing prostitution, and was sentenced to one year and nine months' imprisonment after an effective defense.

The first defendant in this case, represented by Qi Xiaoling, was a police officer of a county public security bureau for more than ten years, who was accused of organizing prostitution because a foot massage parlor in which he had a stake was found to be engaged in prostitution and was accused of organizing the crime of prostitution. Because of the defendant's special status, the case was supervised by the Supervisory Commission and was elevated to the investigative department of a municipal people's procuratorate. The owner of the foot massage parlor was dealt with in a separate case, and was sentenced to eight years in prison before the first trial of the case began.

Qi Xiaoling lawyers from the investigation stage to accept the commission, to the first trial verdict, lasted one year and four months, the defendant suffered greatly, the defender painstakingly, before and after more than twenty times to the detention center to meet with the defendant. Qi Xiaoling lawyer after careful study of the case, that the defendant of the foot massage parlor engaged in prostitution activities and did not know, although before accepting the commission of the defendant has for various reasons made a few plea statement, but Qi Xiaoling lawyer that should respect the objective facts of the case, can't in fact does not exist “know” the act of pleading guilty to the confusion, not to mention that organization The starting point for the crime of organizing prostitution is five years. After full communication with the family and the defendant, unanimously established the defense direction of not guilty.

The defense of this case is not easy, a total of three shareholders of the foot massage parlor, the store owner confessed that the first defendant knowledge and has been recognized by the effective judgment, the second defendant (auxiliary police) in the case of a working day before the trial by the prosecuting authorities to persuade to sign the plea of guilty and punishment of two and a half years' imprisonment and confession of knowledge of the first defendant, the formation of a two to one disadvantageous situation.

The trial of this case was quite exciting, the defense and the defendant tacit cooperation, the facts of the case in favor of the defendant fully presented to the court, so that the more than forty spectators in the gallery agreed that the defendant did not commit the crime. Six months after the trial to be sentenced, can be seen during the difficult game process. During this period, the defense continued to communicate with the contractor judge many times, repeatedly affirming the defendant's innocence of the defense point of view, and ultimately, the defendant was sentenced to one year and nine months of imprisonment for the crime of organizing prostitution, and with the simultaneous trial of another charge of abuse of power and decided to carry out the two years of imprisonment after the combination of several penalties.

The defense work in this case highlights several typical problems:

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For cases that are originally innocent, how the defense can stick to the direction of innocent defense when the defendant is distracted by the judicial policy of leniency in pleading guilty and severity in not pleading guilty;

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How to rise to the challenge when the defendant has already made several plea statements in the early stages and two co-defendants have identified him as constituting the crime;

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Refuse to ride the wall of defense, the defense of innocence to the end, what the lawyer needs the courage and commitment.