A senior lawyer surnamed Yao worked as a judicial scalper for cheating money. He was sentenced to 1 year in the first trial.

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[Reporter Yang Guowen/Taipei Report] 68-year-old senior lawyer surnamed Yao, 8 years ago helped an official surnamed Wen of the Immigration Department involved in corruption. Wen Xin thought he had paid 300,000 yuan, but he was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in the second trial without a suspended sentence. Only then did he learn that a lawyer surnamed Yao pretended to be a judicial scalper to defraud him. The man was sentenced to 1 year in prison; after the appeal of the whole case, the High Court denounced Yao Nan as a serious vicious person and greatly increased his criminal responsibility.

The lawyer surnamed Yao has not heard the sentence today, so it is impossible to know his views on the heavy sentence and the need to go to prison;

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According to the investigation by the prosecution, a member of the Special Service Team of the Immigration Department surnamed Wen, who asked for a bribe of 35,000 yuan in 2013 to indulge the escaped foreign worker who was arrested, was prosecuted for corruption. In 2015, Wen hired a lawyer surnamed Yao as a defense lawyer, and Yao persuaded Wen to plead guilty. Striving for a lighter sentence, the first trial was sentenced to 3 years in August and suspended for 4 years.

At the second instance of the appeal, the lawyer surnamed Yao told Wen that he knew a certain judge of the collegial panel of the second instance very well and often played mahjong together.

Wen Nan borrowed money from his elder brother and handed over 300,000 in cash to Yao. Although the High Court commuted his sentence to 3 years and 6 months, Wen Nan was not given a suspended sentence. Yao argued to Wen that only one of the 3 judges accepted the money, and it was impossible to buy. He was deceived and filed a lawsuit against Yao.

Wen was later sentenced to Dingqiao and sent to prison, but has been released on parole.

During the investigation by the Shilin District Prosecutor's Office, Yao argued that the 300,000 yuan included attorney fees, appeal fees, and legal opinion fees. He intended to defraud money, and prosecuted Yao for the crime of obtaining money by fraud.

During the Shilin District Court trial, Yao still denied defrauding 300,000 yuan, arguing that he had passed out and had a concussion, memory loss, and could not remember the detailed reasons for the asking price. , you will be charged more.

However, the Academy of Scholars believes that the retrial is an extraordinary relief procedure after the third trial. When Yao charged 300,000 yuan to Wen, the case was still in the second trial stage, and it had nothing to do with the retrial. It is used to clear up the judge, so Yao’s defense is not accepted, and he is determined to defraud money deliberately. As a lawyer, Yao is severely criticized for playing the role of a judicial scalper, which seriously damages the image of judicial justice. Yao is sentenced to 1 year in prison without a fine .

After the appeal, the High Court annulled the first-instance judgment this morning, aggravated Yao's sentence to 3 years in prison, and confiscated 100,000 yuan of criminal income that was not confiscated.