2004年4月18日,中国社会科学院法学研究所的几十名博士研究生、硕士研究生正在进行一场特殊的研讨会。会议内容是对承德“四次发回重审、四次死刑判决”一案进行“法律会诊”。会议主持人,社科院法学所研究员、诉讼法研究室主任王敏远对本刊记者说:我们之所以选择这一案件作为专题讨论的典型案例,是因为此案暴露出了中国刑事司法制度中存在的一系列问题,从程序到实体,从口供定罪到证据定罪,从 On April 18, 2004, dozens of doctoral students and graduate students from the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences are conducting a special seminar. The contents of the meeting were “legal consultation” on the case of Chengde “four retrials, four death sentences ”. Conference host, researcher at the Academy of Social Sciences, Lawrence Wang, director of the litigation research laboratory, told the reporter: "We chose this case as a typical case of a thematic discussion because the case revealed the existence of China’s criminal justice system A series of questions, from procedure to entity, from confession to conviction of evidence