Human rights activists and family members gathered at the Taiwan High Court yesterday to show their concern about the Hsichih Trio murder case.
The court held an investigative hearing for the trio of defendants, Su Chien-ho (
Yesterday happened to be the 11th anniversary since the trio was first put behind bars.
Before the hearing, the supporting crowd, consisting of nearly 20 family members, friends and human rights activists from the Humanistic Education Foundation (
At the hearing yesterday, defense counsel Su You-chen (
The unclear forensic report and weak evidence are the main controversial items in the case.
They were also the reasons why former state public prosecutor-general Chen Han (
In March of 1991, Wu and Yeh were brutally murdered in their apartment home in Hsichih, Taipei County.
The police arrested four suspects on Aug. 14, 1991, and prosecutors charged them with murder on Oct. 4 in the same year. One of the suspects, Wang Wen-hsiao (
As a result, he was executed on Jan. 11, 1992, under the Military Law after he admitted that he committed the murder.
The other three, Su, Liu and Chuang, were sentenced to death after the first trial at the Shihlin District Court on Feb. 18, 1992. Three years later, after appeals, the Supreme Court came up with the final verdict for the trio and the result remained the same: The death penalty.
Other than Chen's three requests for extraordinary appeal that were all upheld, defense counsel Su You-chen also filed an appeal to the Supreme Court on Aug. 21, 1998.
On Sept. 23, 1999, the Supreme Court accepted the appeal and ordered the Taiwan High Court to hold rehearings and a retrial for the case. The first rehearing was held on Nov. 16, 2000.
The apartment of the murdered couple, which remains uninhabited, has been redecorated. All the furniture that was originally in the apartment has been removed, the walls repainted and floor tiles replaced.
There was no conclusion at yesterday's hearing. Judge Yeh Teng-juei (
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