In order to stand up for a friend's car collision sentence
One month to go until Huo Min's 27th birthday in Chang'an District of Xi'an, however, he received a death penalty court verdict before his birthday. This morning (November 8), a criminal case was handed down in the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court. The defendant in this case, Huo Min, was sentenced to death for endangering public safety by dangerous methods. It is regrettable that he drove his car into the fighting crowd in order to stand up for his friends, causing one of them to die and one to be slightly injured.
At about 21:00 on October 7, 2015, when Huo Min and his friend Lu and other five people walked to the door of a restaurant on Chang'an West Road after dinner, Lu had a dispute with Yue, who was about to leave the restaurant, and beat him. Huo Min and others also participated in the beating. Then the friend of Yue, the victim Zhao and more than ten others, saw this and stopped Huo Min and others from leaving, and the two sides fought.
Taking the opportunity to leave the scene, he drove a gray car parked on the west side of the hotel entrance, and ran into the crowd fighting at the hotel entrance along the north side of Changan West Road, injuring Zhao and six others. Zhao was sent to the hospital for rescue and died on April 21, 2016. After forensic identification, Zhao died of systemic failure after traumatic craniocerebral injury. Deng's injury was a minor injury of the first degree, and the disability was caused by the ninth degree of disability. After investigation by the public security organs, Huo Min's car was driving at a speed of about 60km/h when it hit people.
The court held that Huo Min disregarded the safety of an unspecified majority of people and drove his car into a crowd, causing one death, one minor injury, and many injuries, and his behavior constituted the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means. The facts of the crime charged by the Xi'an Municipal People's Procuratorate against the defendant Huo Min are clear, and the charges and applicable laws are correct and should be supported. The public prosecution organ's accusation against Huo Min for the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means was brought by Huo Min's defender. Huo Min's behavior should constitute a defense for the crime of traffic accident. After investigation, the crime of traffic accident is a negligent crime. Huo Min knew that driving a motor vehicle at high speed into a crowd would cause casualties to others, but he deliberately carried out the act of driving into an unspecified majority of people, which subjectively had obvious criminal intent and objectively caused casualties to others. Therefore, the public prosecution accused Huo Min of committing the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means. Therefore, the defense reason of the defender is not admissible.
In the end, Huo Min was sentenced to death for the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous methods, deprived of political rights for life; and compensated the plaintiffs Zhao, Pan, Tu, Zhao, Zhao for material losses of RMB 636,636.50000 yuan, and the plaintiff Deng for material losses of RMB 62,835 yuan.
The court held that Huo Min, regardless of the safety of the unspecified majority, drove his car into the crowd, killing one person and injuring many others, and his behavior constituted the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means. When the presiding judge pronounced the death penalty, Huo Min buried his head and closed his eyes tightly. When the bailiffs took him away, his legs were weak and he could not walk, and he was eventually helped away by the bailiffs.
