As soon as I got the notice of the conclusion, I couldn’t wait to turn to the last page, where I saw a line clearly marked in the conclusion — “Chen Zhi has been identified as not suffering from mental illness and is fully capable of criminal responsibility in the course of committing the crime.” On a white background, in black, with a red signature, “It depends on how you act. This farce is finally over.” I was secretly excited.
Early the next morning, my colleagues and I came to the interrogation room of the detention center with the certificate of identification and the notice of conclusion. When Chen Zhi was taken out by the discipline police, he still looked like winking his eyes, scratching his left and scratching his right. I waved the paperwork in my hand. “Don’t play any more. The verdict is in.
Chen Zhi gave a sudden jolt and suddenly stood up, pulling the handcuffs to rattle.
“Yes, here you are, and sign your notice of conclusion when you have finished.” I handed the document in through the iron railing. Chen Zhi took the document, looked around for a long time, suddenly threatened to tear, shocked the police immediately came forward to hold him down.
I clapped my hands on the table and stood up. “That’s enough, Chen Zhi,” I said. “This conclusion is only a copy. But this copy is stamped and fully legal. You tear it up when the court sees the trial, will it be heavy.” Say that finish I point the DV machine on the desk, “your every word and action, this can clap clear.”
Chen Zhi lost his strength and collapsed on the chair. After another minute or two, he finally raised his hand, picked up his pen, signed the notice of expert conclusion, and put his fingerprints on it.
When Chen Zhijin was sent to the cell, his discipline police said to us: “Thank you, brother.” Looking at his happy appearance, I guess this period of time was also Chen Zhi make enough.
1
Speaking of Chen Zhi, we have to start with a case in late July 2012.
That day, a grocery store in Section C of the South Side Seafood Market was smashed up. The grocery store mainly sells frozen goods and dry goods. The storefront is limited. The owner, Zhao, rents A cold storage in Area A. It was past six o ‘clock last Wednesday morning, and the man in the shop, as usual, was riding his tricycle through the crowded market to haul goods from the cold storage. While dodging a pedestrian, he accidentally swerved off the front of the car and ran over the instep of one’s right foot.
The man, Hu Yuhang, was astride a motorcycle, his right foot on the ground, bargaining with a peddler. As soon as this thing came out, the onlookers immediately crowded up and surrounded the inside and outside three floors. With the help of passers-by, Hu yuhang parked his motorcycle and took off his shoes, revealing his red and swollen instep. His eyes and nose were twisted into a ball, and he made a painful “hiss” sound.
Ten minutes later, Boss Zhao arrived at the scene. Seeing this, he knew it was inevitable that he would lose money, so he took out all the 100 yuan bills in his pocket, about more than 1,000 yuan, and handed them to Hu Yuhang, telling him to go to the hospital for a check-up. Hu Yuhang took the money and zhao boss to the phone and address.
That afternoon, Hu yuhang’s phone rang, but the voice on the other end was not his. “Are you the damned Zhao? My brother’s foot was crushed like that by you. He’s in the hospital and he can’t move. You can’t even look at it. I warn you, if you don’t come in an hour, I’ll give you a good time.” Zhao boss was frightened, hurriedly took 3000 yuan money again, came to orthopaedic hospital.
When Zhao found Hu Yuhang in the hospital room, he was spraying Yunnan white medicine on the instep. On the other two beds sat four young men with evil spirits. The dragon and the tiger gave an arm.
“Are you afraid to ask?” A comb airplane head of the short man “Ho” to stand up, to the boss zhao chest a push: “don’t you see my brother’s foot are you crushed fracture?”
Although before coming into the ward, the doctor had told Boss Zhao that Hu Yuhang had no serious problems and would recover after a few days of rest. But for now, I can only laugh: “I know that. I just want to get this right.”
“Want to solve is, line, we also don’t do you, 10 thousand, two clear. My brother is in the midnight snack business. You make him so at least a week can’t go out booth, add nutrition cost, medical treatment cost, labor loss cost, I calculate you only 10 thousand, enough to give you face!”
“Look, brother…” Zhao turned to hu Yuhang, who had been silent.
Before Hu Yuhang could speak, the head of the plane interjected again: “You can’t understand people’s words, can you? A word, either give money, or disassemble two parts (break hands and feet), you see!” Say that finish, “airplane head” opposite the bedside “yellow hair” made a look in the eyes, yellow hair immediately took out a fruit knife, turn a head to pick up an apple on the bedside table to cut up, “this knife still quite fast…” Then, the other two boys sat near the door of the bed, boss Zhao “surrounded”.
“I really don’t have that much money with me…” Boss Zhao has no choice.
“How much have you got for me? I owe the rest, and two days later they will come to me.” The head of the plane came straight forward with a sinister look in his eyes. Zhao boss took out the 3000 yuan prepared in advance, the plane head grabbed, “still owe 7000, remember to return back as soon as possible.”
From beginning to end, Hu didn’t say a word.
2
Two days later, the head of the plane came with a group of people, some of them with baseball bats, directly smashed the two glass doors of the shop to pieces, and the store laid the goods overturned several piles, and threatened that if they did not give the money, the next time they would hit boss Zhao’s head. Zhao boss finally understand blindly compromise is not for peace, had to report to the police.
According to the information provided by Zhao, we found Hu Yuhang that night. Ask him foot after all is what hurt, he says it is an ordinary trauma, did not hurt bones and muscles, ask him again why want to seek zhao boss to knock brushstroke, his face reveals bitterness again.
Originally, when zhao boss on the spot compensation to him more than 1,000 yuan, to the hospital to do the examination, prescription spent several hundred. He was doing midnight snack business, and his foot was hurt, so he could not afford to spend a little money. Feeling reluctant, he thought of Chen Zhi, the head of the plane — Chen Zhi used to come to his stall for midnight snack before, and he always said that he could “help people solve their difficulties” — Hu Yuhang decided to call Chen Zhi and ask him what he could do.
Soon Chen Zhi came to the hospital with his little brother and fruit. After some polite, Chen Zhi asked Hu Yuhang how much money he wanted. Hu Yuhang calculated in his mind that he only had two tables for his midnight snack. Listen to zhao boss said so, Chen Zhi immediately patted his chest and made a promise.
Unexpectedly, when Boss Zhao came, Chen Zhi opened his mouth for 10,000 yuan. Hu Yuhang wanted to make a circle, but Chen Zhi rudely interrupted him. Especially when a group of people on the other side showed their knives, even he was frightened and shivered and dared not open his mouth any more. After taking 3, 000 yuan from Zhao, Chen gave Hu only 1, 000 yuan and pocketed the rest.
Later, Chen Zhi also made several phone calls to Hu Yuhang, saying that he had done him such a great favor, but he did not show any sign of it. Hu Yuhang had to endure the foot injury reluctantly out of the stall, invited Chen Zhi to have a snack. Unexpectedly, Chen Zhi had a quarrel with one of his deskmates before he ate two mouthfuls. The table was turned over and the dishes were smashed to pieces. The scene was a mess.
“Chen Zhi is too unjust!” Hu Yuhang sighed at last.
Soon, Chen zhi and his party were caught in a hotel. In this way, with the case of zhao Boss store as the center, we successfully tried out a number of the gang to stir up trouble, extortion cases, Chen Zhi and his group were detained, followed by the procuratorate approved the arrest.
3
The turning point came just after the arrest.
Originally, this case was also considered to be a comprehensive one. In addition to the three who were under 16 years old and could not be handled, those who should have been arrested and those who could be verified were investigated. The records were complete and the evidence was complete, and according to the usual practice, they could be transferred to prosecution in time. But just when we thought we were done, the detention center called: “Is this Chen Zhi sick?”
“Oh?” I was a little confused. “When we caught him, we asked him, and he said he wasn’t sick!”
“Chen zhi often complains of headaches and often faints for no reason. The last time our director gave a lecture on the rule of law to the suspects in custody, Chen Zhi suddenly fell from his chair, his eyes rolled white and his whole body twitched, which scared him to death. The corrections rushed him to the infirmary, and it took most of the time to wake him up. He said he had been walking so much before that his head had been damaged.”
“And that?” I wondered. Although Chen is in the habit of taking Ma Gu, the drug does cause damage to the central nervous system, but such exaggeration is unheard of.
“Brother, you take him to the hospital to check.” “Asked the other, tentatively.
When a suspect is sent to a detention center, we sign a letter of commitment, promising to take him for examination and treatment if there is a physical problem. “Don’t worry, brother, we’ll go tomorrow.”
The next day, we went through the formalities and went to the detention center to pick up people. When I saw Chen Zhi again, he was wearing a yellow mandarin jacket, a pair of shorts and slippers. I guess it’s because I haven’t basked in the sun for a long time. My original dark skin is whiter and my mouth has grown some whiskers. After being handcuffed, he handed over a note saying that uncle Chen’s phone number was on it and that he would meet us directly at the designated hospital of the municipal public Security Bureau.
Arriving at the hospital, Uncle Chen Zhi wore a shirt and trousers and a pair of glasses. He had the air of an intellectual. The result of the whole body examination came out very soon. To be honest, looking at the “no obvious abnormal condition” on Chen Zhi’s ELECTROcardiogram, I was very envious — after work, my physical examination report had not been normal. Soon, there’s only one more item left: enhanced BRAIN MRI.
While Chen Zhi was doing an MRI, I chatted with his uncle.
Chen Zhi was born in a rural traditional heavy, father comes in third at home, with two aunts, below is the uncle, Chen Zhi is complete the eldest branch grandson, the pet as a child, every time ran, grandma and grandpa always will come out in the first place “HuDuZi”, not will also be back “three points”. And so big, but also with reading. At first, I thought it was because the teaching conditions in the countryside were not good. Just then, uncle Chen Zhi got a firm foothold in a public institution in the city. Chen Zhi’s parents begged uncle all day long to take Chen Zhi to the city to go to school.
When His uncle Chen Zhi was in college, his father provided most of the tuition and expenses for him, so he was naturally duty-bound to do this request. It took a lot of effort to get Chen Zhi into a better boarding school in the city. In the first half year, uncle Chen Zhi was invited to school almost every week by his teacher for his nephew’s violation of school rules. When he returned home, he could not help but say something more. “At home, my parents dare not control me,” he said. Enraged, Uncle Chen decided to halve his school allowance.
Good intentions, however, lead to evil. At the beginning, Chen zhi only secretly blocked a junior student during the next night study, and threatened to get 20 yuan. Having tasted his sweet taste, he even began to engage in extortion “trading” during the day. Most of the students dare not speak, until the amount of money was too large, the school found out, directly out of a “notice of expulsion,” let Chen zhi back to his hometown.
Mix reluctantly in the hometown junior high school graduation, the family sent Chen Zhi to technical school again, not long also was dropped from school.
In this way, Chen Zhi loitered in his hometown until he was 22 years old. In 2011, decided to stay in the city. Before leaving, Chen zhi asked his father to call his uncle and tell him that he wanted to go to the city to do business. He asked his uncle to lend him 10,000 yuan. Although everybody knows this money is meat steamed stuffed bun to play dog certainly, but uncle still took out 10 thousand, just did not think of, return only 3 months, Chen Zhi knocked on his door again.
This time, Chen zhi has changed his appearance, including a plane head, a tight T-shirt and a frightening tattoo on his body. As soon as he entered the house, he sat down on a chair with his feet on the table and leaned his head to tell his uncle what he had come for. “The money you gave me last time was accidentally trapped in my business, so I had to ask you to lend me another 10,000 yuan.
Uncle due to the elderly in the home and brother and sister-in-law face, did not attack on the spot, finally took out 500 yuan to send Chen Zhi. But from then on, Chen Zhi came from time to time and asked for several times. At the beginning, Chen Zhi’s uncle was afraid that people at home would poke his spine and say that he “forgot his roots”. Finally, after many times, he finally couldn’t bear it. First, he kicked Chen Zhi out with a scolding, and then he called His father directly, saying that he would never make money again in the future.
This thought finally got rid of this “cancer”, did not expect two days ago he received a phone call from Chen Zhi’s father, entrusted him to bring Chen Zhi to “see a doctor”.
“It’s all my family’s habit. I don’t care since I was a child, I still don’t care now. Now I’ve finally sent myself in!” Finally, Uncle Chen said with hatred.
The result of magnetic resonance should get in the afternoon, at noon a group of people plan to have a steamed vegetable snack together. Looking at the white rice, steamed eggs and braised cauliflowers on the plate in front of him, Chen managed to swallow a few mouthfuls of rice before pleading to his uncle: “Uncle, I want to have steamed ribs with sauce.”
His uncle directly hit Chen Zhi on the forehead with a chopstick. “I am not good at learning English,” he said. “I played with myself in the cell and took me to suffer with me.” Chen zhi raised his hand and tried to rub the top of the head. The gloves on his wrist were pulled to a “rattle”.
I kindly reminded him, “I didn’t mean to deny you the meat, just think about it for yourself, what you ate in the detention house was clear soup and water, now I’ll give you a big fish and meat, which will make you squat down in the toilet tonight! You have a good understanding of your criminal behavior, try to come out early, you can eat and drink.”
Lunch break is in the car, two colleagues fell asleep very quickly, I dare not close my eyes, for fear of what to make. Barely past 3 p.m., the results came back, “no obvious abnormalities in the brain” — that is, Chen zhi was not ill at all.
When getting on the bus again, Chen Zhi suddenly shouted to his uncle: “Uncle, make some medicine for me to eat, or I really will die!”
“Have no disease to take what medicine! Give me a good transformation inside, try to get out as soon as possible.” “The uncle angrily replied.
Chen Zhi was silent all the way and soon fell asleep. But as he neared the detention center, the guy suddenly opened his eyes, gasped, retched, and then slammed his head into the seat in front of him. As we pulled over quickly, I grabbed him by the collar and shouted, “Stop fooling me!” Chen Zhi then stopped.
When he came back to the detention center, Chen Zhi suddenly rolled his eyes and lay down on the ground. He refused to open his eyes and let the other people pull and scold him. The police seemed to have expected that he would come to the detention center.
4
The case finally moved to the procuratorate, I thought I could breathe a sigh of relief.
The telephone of can procuratorate also chased after to come unexpectedly, say Chen Zhi this case wants “return compensatory investigation”. I bravely went to the public prosecution Section of the procuratorate to get the case file. When I opened the “supplementary investigation evidence page”, it read: “It is suggested to the criminal suspect Chen Zhi to do special identification of mental illness.”
“When we went to the detention center for questioning, Chen Zhi did not look like a normal person at all. To be on the safe side, you’d better give him a special evaluation of mental illness. By the way, Chen Zhi’s family sent a collective certificate these days, saying that some of Chen Zhi’s grandparents had suffered from mental diseases.” After saying this, the prosecutor turned over the file and found several words scrawled on a piece of paper full of signatures and red handprints: “We certify that Chen Zhi of our village is suffering from shenjing disease.”
“Who sent this certificate? We don’t know.” I asked.
“It’s the uncle of the suspect Chen Zhi.”
“It’s really him. This is the first collective proof that someone is mentally ill, and that it is written as’ psychosis’.” I gave a sneer. When I took the file and left, the prosecutor called me again: “Remember to find two signed villagers to make a record, it is best to find the village secretary talk about a conversation.”
When I got back to the team, I reported the situation to the team leader and made a phone call to Uncle Chen Zhi. Before I opened my mouth, uncle Chen apologized first: “I’m really sorry officer, I really didn’t want to cause you any trouble. We will pay the appraisal cost ourselves, so we won’t add any burden to you.”
Finally, he added, “Officer, I can’t help it, you know…”
Psychiatric appraisal institution set up in the provincial brain hospital, we took the certificate of authorization to register, was notified to queue for 3 days. We decided to visit Chen Zhi’s hometown first.
Chen Zhi’s hometown is a small village in the western part of the province. Following the guide, we made our way around to Chen Zhi’s house, a two-story building with no tiles on the outside walls and only a few simple pieces of furniture. In the corner hung dried red peppers and large yellow tobacco leaves. Chen Zhi’s father came to meet him. He was just over 40 years old, with many wrinkles on his swarthy face and gray hair.
After explaining the purpose of his visit, Chen Zhi’s father took out a chair and gave us tea and cigarettes, but we didn’t answer, and directly explained the purpose of his visit. We hoped that he would cooperate with us to find two villagers who signed their names and fingerprints to take notes for us, and it would be better to find the village party secretary. Chen Zhi’s father went to the surrounding area to find two people, the village people love to see lively, heard that the police came down to deal with the case, immediately gathered a lot of people, laughing happily around the side, after checking the signature and the person, we took the person into the inner room.
Before the recording began, one villager opened a small, delicate iron box. It was divided into two compartments, one for paper and the other for crushed tobacco. He first took out a bit of broken cigarette and sprinkled it evenly on the paper. Then he skillfully rolled the paper into a small tube, licked the corner of the wet paper with the tip of his tongue and glued it together. Then he took out a lighter and lit it.
I soon asked the question about the collective proof that Chen Zhi was mentally ill. The villagers suddenly choked, beat their chest, coughed a few times, and smiled with embarrassment: “All the villagers are from the countryside. They come to me for help, but they are ashamed not to help. Of course, it is not really sick, but also to the hospital to identify.”
“This certificate says that someone in Chen Zhi’s previous generation had a mental illness. What specific circumstances do you know?”
“I’ve heard it, I’ve heard it.” The villager coughed dryly again and said with a smile, “It was said before that this is why one of Chen Zhi’s uncles died.”
“Are you sure you don’t know the truth about this?”
“I really don’t know.”
After a few more questions, I made him sign and fingerprint the transcript. After coming out, I exchanged a few words with another colleague, the situation can be right. I almost know in my mind.
At this time the village secretary has come, and sitting outside and the villagers chat, see us out, warmly approached to greet. In the transcript, we asked Chen zhi whether he had ever suffered from mental illness in his family. The party secretary of the village thought for a while and said that Chen Zhi had a uncle and grandpa, but he was not a villager. The old man loved drinking before he died. After drinking, he liked to go crazy with alcohol.
We asked if Chen Zhi’s uncle and grandfather had a special examination or appraisal done in the hospital. The village party secretary immediately said, “There is no such thing. How can a villager make such appraisal?”
5
Soon, the appraisal agency called and said it was ok to bring someone, and asked us to prepare a statement of Chen Zhi’s situation with the staff in the cell. The next day, we brought Chen Zhi out. I glanced at the “instructions” and wanted to laugh. It said that Chen Zhi often beat his heart and stamped his feet in the cell, suddenly fainted, and even picked up garbage and put it in his mouth.
When they arrived at the brain hospital, Chen’s uncle and mother were already there. His mother is short, with short hair, short black sleeves and a little fat. As soon as I saw Chen Zhi, I was about to pounce on him with tears, “My cub ah — how do you want your mother to live? Did you get beaten up in there? Are you hungry?” Uncle Chen Zhi immediately came forward to hold her up: “sister-in-law, sister-in-law, mo excited cough up…”
After settling Chen Zhi’s mother down, we went to the sick room. There were three doctors in the room. One of them was an old man with glasses and white hair. He took Chen Zhi for the basic examination.
When testing the sense of smell, I was far away to smell the sour taste, But Chen Zhi smelled for a long time, halfway also sneezed, looked up quite seriously and said: “Good sweet ah, this is honey, I love to drink!” Then he wanted to catch the bottle, but the doctor stopped him. When he was blind, Chen zhi said it was a deer but a horse. A female doctor laughed and laughed: “Others refer to a deer as a horse, but you refer to a horse as a deer.”
When the doctor asked him to introduce himself, the boy incredibly said, “my name is Chen xiaoqiang, this name is my own take, I remember that night, wearing a white dress flew down from the moon, the old woman said I later call Chen xiaoqiang, also say I am living in the moon, because I want to the science of uniting the world, so we came to the earth. When I am 25, I will fly to the moon.”
I immediately some anger, loudly shouted: “Chen Zhi, you don’t give me!”
The doctor interrupted me, “Officer, we have our own test methods. Don’t get excited.”
In the morning is the basic test, in the afternoon is the medical test, at noon, the doctor gave us a set of test questions, about more than 200, said to Chen Zhi to finish, the afternoon to bring. We had to bring Chen Zhi back to the team, and his mother and uncle followed.
At noon I brought Chen Zhi some food from the canteen and asked him to do some exercises in my office. His mother had been squatting in the corner of our corridor. I could not bear to see that, so I asked his uncle to take her to dinner and rest. However, no matter how much we tried, his mother would not move at all, so his uncle said that he would go to have dinner and then pack a meal for her. As he went down the stairs, his uncle sighed and said, “It is the mother who has done something wrong.”
Entering the office, Chen Zhi has finished the problem, I put the lunch box in front of him: “Eat, I give you add a drumstick, not oil, eat will not loose bowels.”
When Chen Zhi saw the drumstick, he grabbed the handcuffs and began to eat them. Chen Zhi ate the rest of the vegetarian dishes at random, then said to me: “Officer, I’ve had enough!” As he spoke, his eyes glanced several times at the smoke on the table.
I pulled one out and gave it to him to light. Chen Zhi inhaled and closed his eyes. See him this quite enjoy appearance, I can’t help but think of still squatting outside Chen Zhi mother, “your mother is still squatting outside, you have no idea?”
Chen Zhi sighed. “Officer, I know you look down on me. Let alone you, I look down on myself. The last ten years of my life have been wasted, and I know I have had many conversations with the corrections staff in the camp.”
“Did your parents say you were expelled for robbing your classmates?”
“No, they said that if a child knows anything, he will know it when he grows up.”
“Do you blame your parents?”
“Some.”
After a little chat, we’re heading back to the hospital. In the afternoon, we went to the medical building to have various examinations. Mom Chen Zhi followed us in a timid way. She wanted to see the examination results several times, but she shrank back after we found her.
Finally, he had to have an EEG check. When Chen Zhi looked at the wires attached to his head, his mother grabbed the corners of his clothes tightly and came to me timidly. “Officer, will this hurt very much? “It doesn’t hurt,” I explained. “It’s just a normal test.”
Chen Zhi last check finished, I knew I had to go back, go to the first floor hall, he suddenly a bowl, whole body sprawled directly lying on the ground, I immediately froze, only to hear his mother shouted, whole body fell on him, and cried aloud: “pups ah, don’t frighten niang, you really so, are you going to niang how to live!”
I knew Chen Zhi was pretending again, so I couldn’t help getting angry. I grabbed his hand and pulled it sharply. Then I grabbed him around his waist, put him in his waist and strode out. I just took two steps, Chen Zhi mother suddenly ran up, knees in front of me, hands clasped, kowtowed to me, marble floor “dong Dong” sound: “Police officer, please don’t shoot my baby! If you want to shoot me, shoot me!” I unconsciously looked to my waist. When I picked up Chen Zhi just now, I showed the gun on my waist. Today, my squadron was on duty and needed to wear guns as required.
At this pause, I lost my grip and Chen Zhi rolled down, but he still closed his eyes and lay on his back on the ground. I went to help Chen Zhi’s mother at once, but she just banged her head mechanically, with a bruised and swollen forehead, but refused to get up.
Uncle Chen zhi quickly stepped forward, seized Chen Zhi and shook him violently in the chest twice, Shouting: “You animal, you really want your mother to die!” Chen Zhi still looked like a block of mud, but he did not open his eyes. His uncle gnashed his teeth and slapped Chen Zhi in the face. The slap was supposed to be heavy. Chen Zhi sat up like a ghost and made loud retching sounds. He looked at his mother, who was still kowtowing.
A colleague separated the crowd of onlookers. My colleague and I took Chen Zhi into the police car. Through the glass, I saw uncle Chen Zhi try his best to hold on to Chen Zhi’s mother, who seemed to be extremely sad. I shouted to Chen Zhi: “Are you worthy of your mother? You don’t even have a word to say to your mother when she’s like this?” Chen Zhi stared blankly at the roof of the car, his mouth twitching as if he were saying something, but he never said anything.
back to the detention center, Chen Zhi finally did not play like last time, under the guidance of discipline, silently into the supervision area.
A few days later, we received the notification of the result of the appraisal. Because Chen Zhi’s family members actively performed the compensation, they got the victim’s letter of understanding in the transfer stage, which played a great role in his lenient sentence.
During an interrogation at the detention center, I came across Chen’s old discipline. He told me that the night after the psychiatric evaluation, Chen had cried under the covers all night. I don’t know what he was crying about.
(The names and places in this article are all pseudonyms)
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