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Chapter 319 - Chapter 162: The Judgment Below the Statutory Punishment!_4

Looking at the verdict, Qin Mu couldn't help but suck in a sharp breath.

The case's verdict had actually come from the High Court! And it had been filed with the Supreme Court for approval.

According to his understanding of litigation procedures, judgments made by courts at any level needed to be submitted to the Supreme Court for approval in two types of situations.

The first was the death penalty. Any death sentence had to go through a review process by the Supreme Court before it could become effective and be carried out.

The second concerned sentences below the statutory penalty. If a criminal act, for various reasons, was to be sentenced below the statutory penalty, it had to be reported for review. Only after the review was approved could the sentence be implemented.

Take Song Yun's verdict, for example. Originally a twelve-year fixed-term imprisonment, it had been reduced to less than ten years, which necessitated this filing.

"Uncle Qin? Uncle Qin?"

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