CRI听力:Court Hearing Set to Review Nie Shubin's Case

A court in east China's Shandong Province says it will review a 1994 rape and murder case involving a man executed for a crime which another person later confessed to having committed.

Nie Shubin was found guilty of the rape and murder of a woman and received a death penalty in 1995 by a local court in Hebei.

Ten years later, another man named Wang Shujin confessed to the crime.

Last December the Supreme People's Court ordered the case be reviewed in Shandong.

The court hearing is scheduled for next week.

Besides the two parties of the case, fifteen people will attend the hearing as independent witnesses including lawyers, lawmakers, political advisors and representatives of the public.

The presiding judge of the review team, Zhu Yunsan, gave the selection criteria of the independent witnesses.

"The basis and criteria of our selection have taken three points in to consideration. Firstly, the independent witness should be objective, impartial and well behaved. Secondly, the chosen person should have some working experience. Lastly, the person should not make any public comments regarding to Nie's case in the past."

Earlier last month, the attorneys acting for Nie claimed to have found several "evident errors" while duplicating Nie's case files, most of which involve legal procedure.

Nie's case drew further public attention following the acquittal of an executed convict in another rape-murder case last December.

A teenager named Huugjilt from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was executed for the rape and murder of a woman in June 1996.

Then in 2005, a self-confessed serial rapist and killer, Zhao Zhihong, admitted to that murder upon his arrest.