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| Justice at the click of a mouse in China |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 09/15/2006 |
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BEIJING, CHINA - A court in China has used a software programme to help decide prison sentences in more than 1,500 criminal cases, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Wednesday. The software, tested for two years in a court in Zibo, a city in the eastern coastal province of Shandong, covered about 100 different crimes, including robbery, rape, murder and state security offences, the South China Morning Post said, citing the software's developer, Qin Ye. "The software is aimed at ensuring standardised decisions on prison terms. Our programmes set standard terms for any subtle distinctions in different cases of the same crime," Qin was quoted as saying. A Beijing-based software company had worked with the Zichuan District Court in Zibo since 2003 to develop the programme and input mainland criminal law, the paper said. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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