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Real-life drama in China over crime and punishment of toll dodgers

By Douglas A. Berman

As effectively explained in this BBC article, many fascinating aspects of China's criminal justice system is brought to light in an amazing and still developing story of massive toll evasion.  Here are the details: The younger brother of a Chinese man sentenced to life in prison for dodging road tolls has turned himself into police, state media reports.  Shi Junfeng said he -- and not his elder brother - had put military number plates on the vehicles to evade tolls of 3.7m yuan (£350,000;$560,000). The case caused an outcry in China, with many questioning the harsh sentence given to Shi Jianfeng.  The court in Henan province had already ordered a retrial. Shi Jianfeng had been found guilty last week of evading the fees over a nine-month period while delivering sand and gravel in two trucks...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 16, 2011 (boomark / email).