He was wronged in prison for 27 years, and when he got out of prison, he was covered with scars, his toes were amputated and his fingernails were broken! What happened?

On April 20th, 20 18, Liu Zhonglin was acquitted.

Liu Zhonglin was originally a farmer in Huimin Village, Dongfeng County, Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province.

1990 10, a female body was dug up by the villagers in Huimin Village, Lingyun Township, dongliao county City, Jilin Province. Liu Zhonglin, then 22, was identified as a suspect. In July, Liaoyuan Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liu Zhonglin to death for intentional homicide, with a two-year suspension. In August of the following year, the Jilin Provincial High Court ruled that Liu Zhonglin's death was suspended.

Through commutation, Liu Zhonglin was 48 years old when he was released from prison.

After waiting for more than two years, on April 20, 20 18, the Higher People's Court of Jilin Province retrial found that Liu Zhonglin's intentional homicide case was "unclear in facts and insufficient in evidence" and declared Liu Zhonglin innocent.

At the age of 5 1 year, he received 4.6 million yuan of state compensation, and he received the highest state compensation in similar cases at that time.

From Fat Man to "Murderer"

At that time, he was still a farmer who dropped out of primary school and began to grow corn. His family called him "Little Fatty".

1990101On 28th October, a female corpse was dug up in the crops of Huimin village, and it was identified as Zheng, a girl who had been lost in the same village for one year. According to the cover news 20 18, on the night when the female body was found, the police dragged Liu Zhonglin out of bed, stuffed him into a police car and sent him to Liaoyuan detention center.

Cousin Chang Chunxiang said that shortly after the incident, his brother went back to the village once, sold his house and land for more than 4,000 yuan, left 200 yuan in the detention center for his brother, and then went to work in the south. Then he was adopted by his wife to a family in Shanxi, and never asked about the Liu family again.

Chang Chunxiang doesn't believe that this little fat man can kill people. Every few months, he would ride a bicycle for two hours to the detention center, leaving a new shirt, black square-toed shoes and 50 yuan RMB or 65,438+000 yuan in cash. At that time, his monthly salary was 28 yuan, and the money was collected from relatives and friends.

After more than four years of investigation, prosecution and trial, Liu Zhonglin, as a suspect and defendant, was unable to meet his relatives. It was not until July 1994, when the Liu Zhonglin case was pronounced in the first instance, that Chang Chunxiang saw Little Fatty again in court.

Although there was only Liu Zhonglin's own confession and no witnesses and physical evidence, Liaoyuan Intermediate People's Court still found Liu Zhonglin guilty of intentional homicide and suspended his execution for two years. Chang Chunxiang was far away from Liu Zhonglin in the dock, only remembering that he was not fluent and was busy crying.

"clumsy"

After the verdict, Liu Zhonglin was transferred from Liaoyuan Detention Center to Changchun Prison.

Dongfeng county is more than 60 kilometers away from Changchun/kloc-0. It takes three or four hours to get to the prison, and it will be dusk when you come back from the visit. In those years, Chang Chunxiang suffered from cirrhosis and was in poor health. The source of income has also been cut off, and the family owes a lot of treatment fees. He can't care about the little fat man in prison.

Liu Zhonglin felt forgotten. He wrote to the villagers, hoping that they could help him avenge his death and begged them to visit him, but no one visited him in the first ten years.

He is more withdrawn and less talkative than in the past. In the cell of 12 people, he only talked to one person who claimed to be wronged, ignored others and never explained his grievances. He thinks everyone else deserves it, and he "doesn't have the same language".

In prison, every prisoner has to work, knitting sweaters and making door and window frames, but Liu Zhonglin won't do it: I'm not guilty. Why should I work? He said he was beaten many times for this, covered in injuries and bleeding. But he still disobeyed and refused to work, so that the old injury did not heal and added new ones.

After being beaten, he still refused to communicate with others. When he gets angry, he breaks things, stainless steel pot and his job. When he catches anything, he slaps it hard on the ground, or hits it on the window glass, waiting for another beating.

Because he didn't work or break anything, Liu Zhonglin was sent to the "trumpet"-the brig. In his memory, this is a prison room with only one bed, and there is nothing in it except an open toilet.

The trumpet is not in the main building of the prison. The walls are thin and airy on all sides. In winter, there are only two thin radiators at home, which are heated twice in the morning and evening. When Liu Zhonglin was sent to Changchun, it was already January, and the average daily temperature in Changchun was about-65,438 degrees Celsius. Although he is wearing cotton-padded clothes and trousers, his hands and feet are still cold.

After coming out of the trumpet, Liu Zhonglin got the privilege of not working. He was only responsible for the sanitation of the prison room on weekdays. Sweep the floor, mop the floor and clean the table. He did what he didn't do. When he was in a bad mood, he simply unfolded the quilt and slept under it.

He called his lifestyle in prison "clumsy"-a dirty word in Northeast China, meaning dull and stupid.

Liu Zhonglin was so "clumsy" for more than ten years, and then gradually calmed down. He pleaded guilty to get a reduced sentence, and also took part in labor, made doors and windows and tied a broom. After graduating from elementary school, he also borrowed a Xinhua Dictionary from the discipline, rummaged through it word by word and wrote down his experience of being wronged, and sent it to the Jilin Provincial High Court. He wanted to appeal for himself, but the letter sank into the sea again and again.

26 years of scars

In Liaoyuan's hometown, Liu Zhonglin's elder sister-in-law and aunt have always missed this nephew. They don't think he killed anyone. Cousin Chang Chunxiang once knocked on the door from door to door in the village, hoping to find a witness in the female corpse case or persuade someone to stand up and prove his cousin's character. Aunt persuaded her son-in-law Wang Guizhen to help her nephew.

Wang Guizhen promised to hold the Spring Festival in 2008. Later, he met Liu Zhonglin in Changchun's prison interview room. He asked Liu Zhonglin a question: "Have you ever killed anyone? If you kill him, you will serve a good sentence. You didn't kill him, my brother-in-law helped you complain. "

On the other side, Liu Zhonglin, in tears, stretched out his hands-the ten fingers that had been smashed were still swollen, and the nails on the fingertips had broken and scabbed. Liu Zhonglin said that's why he repented more than ten years ago. "Brother-in-law, please appeal for me, I can't go on."

Since then, Wang Guizhen has put down the fleet business of Inner Mongolia Coal Mine, frequently traveled between Changchun and Beijing, and started a 10 complaint journey. He always burns the midnight oil to save money for the hotel. After arriving in Beijing, he stayed in a small hotel next to Tiantan Hospital, which cost tens of dollars a night. Sometimes when the weather is fine and money is tight, he makes do with building an underground passage in bridge opening. These two files add up to more than 1000 pages. Wang Guizhen copied them and took them away. Every time you see a lawyer, you should leave a copy, and the consultation fee should be at least several hundred yuan at a time.

The efforts of Liu Zhonglin, Wang Guizhen and lawyers finally paid off. On March 28th, 20 12, the Higher People's Court of Jilin Province initiated a retrial of the case, but it has not held a court session since then. On October 20 16 10, Liu Zhonglin was released from prison. He was not acquitted, but was released after serving his sentence.

Wang Huanzhen, my aunt's daughter and Wang Guizhen's wife, remembers that when my cousin left the prison, it was an afternoon when the cold wind hit people's hearts in the twelfth month. She hired a driver and waited at the prison gate in Changchun at 7 am. But several groups of released prisoners came out, and she never heard her cousin's name again.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, someone was reading Liu Zhonglin, and a group of people in gray clothes and trousers came out. Wang Huanzhen tried to identify and saw the familiar round face. She dared not call Little Fatty and asked, "Are you Liu Zhonglin?" The teenager 26 years ago was almost 50 years old. He looked down at the woman. "Are you my second sister?"

Wang Huanzhen began to wipe her tears, dragged her cousin to the car, changed her underwear into cotton-padded jacket and trousers, and fastened her buttons one by one. Liu Zhonglin said, "Sister, don't cry. Everyone is out. Why are you crying? " He also wanted to leave his new suede shoes in prison, but his cousin stopped him. She said, "Don't take anything out."

Compared with the little fat man in prison, Liu Zhonglin had many scars of different shades when he got out of prison. His right big toe was amputated and ten fingernails were broken. Chang Chunxiang said that his nails were gray, his fingertips were swollen, and blood occasionally oozed from the scab. He can barely hold chopsticks with his forefinger and thumb. The disability of his toes made it difficult for him to move. The two brothers climbed the mountain together, and they were fine when they climbed the mountain. When they went down the mountain, Liu Zhonglin could only move sideways slowly.