《中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法》经八届全国人民代表大会第四次会议审议通过了修正案,并于1997年元月1日实施。新法进一步维护了公民的合法权益,但各地司法机关却遇到了一些原来没有遇到的问题。下面这起案件依照新法经历了从当庭释放到当庭判处有期徒刑12年的过程,读者也许可以从中明白些什么。 The Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China examined and adopted the amendment at the fourth session of the Eighth National People’s Congress and was implemented on January 1, 1997. The new law further upholds the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, but various judicial departments have encountered some problems that they had not encountered before. The following case, under the new law, has undergone 12 years of imprisonment from the time of release from court to tribunal, from which readers may understand it.