“If involuntary to any degree, the admissibility of the confessions is in question,” said James Zimmerman, a managing partner at law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton and a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce China.
China commentators haven't been blinded to the idea that despite denouncing the Mao-era polices that Bo Xi Lai was criticized over in the last Party meeting seems now to have become de riguer .
Publicising confessions before a formal criminal process could reflect “a wider trend of returning to Mao-style criminal justice”, said Eva Pils, law professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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