A number of rural people are found to be in the wrong zone, with poppy growing, ready to eat as vegetables, and small-scale cultivation. It is unknown that opium poppy has never been a common dish and that private cultivation is an offence. On 3 september, zhou to the district people's court moved the trial site to the maktung village council for public sittings in order to solve the deeply rooted legal errors in the countrysideOld peopleIllicit cultivation of narcotic plantsCase, conducted in a ground-to-ground mannerPublicityI don't know。
The accused in this case is an 85-year-old villager with many difficulties in day-to-day operations, and it is extremely difficult to travel to and from court to attend the trial. In order to fully guarantee the rights of the elderly and reduce the burden of litigation, and to facilitate the presence of villagers in the neighbourhood, access to law and order education, co-chairing of judges and coordination of communication among the various parties, it was decided to open the maiton village councilCircuit trialsI don't know。
After trial, it was found that the accused, due to a low level of legal awareness, mistakenly thought that opium poppy could be used as a vegetable and without knowing that the act was an offence, planted 570 opium poppy plants in the open area of his home. Although the accused subjectively sought no illegal gain and committed drug offences with the intention that the cultivation should be used only for the daily consumption of his family, opium poppy is a drug plant that the state has expressly prohibited from being grown privately, regardless of its purpose or quantity, in violation of the criminal law of the state. The trial was conducted in an orderly and orderly manner, and the presiding judge, having due regard to the circumstances of the accused's surrender, advanced age, poor physical condition, first-time offender, minor subjectivity, sincerity of guilty pleas, sentenced him to a lighter penalty in accordance with the law and sentenced him to four months ' imprisonment, six months ' probation and two thousand yuan。
At the end of the trial, the presiding judge conducted a public information campaign on the ground, taking into account the facts of the case, focusing on correcting the villagers' misperceptions that “a little food is good” and that “an old man has always been so”, detailing the identity of the opium poppy, the ban and the legal consequences, so that the people present could understand that poppy was grown in a vegetable garden, not a vegetable, and that it was a crime。
This rural circuit, which takes into account the strength and temperature of the judiciary, maximizes the access of older persons to justice, and transforms the trial into a “rule of law classroom at the door of the home”, effectively breaking down the lawless districts of the grass-roots population and effectively raising awareness of drug law enforcement among the population in the districts。
As a next step, zhou to the county people's courts will continue to deepen the new era's maple bridge experience, regularize the conduct of village circuits, focus on the needs of grass-roots mass justice, move the court sites to fields, village compounds, and, while the cases are being handled by the public, introduce a common interpretation of the law, stop the illicit cultivation of narcotic plants from the source, and establish anti-drug lines within the jurisdiction and protect the safety and stability of villages。
