The farmer picked a few flowers on the mountain and was sentenced? What's the situation?
Recently, the people's Court of Lushi County, Henan Province, sentenced Qin to three years' imprisonment, three years' probation and a fine of 3000 yuan for the crime of illegally cutting key state protected plants. Inadvertently digging three 'weeds' constitutes a crime, which greatly shakes Qin's thoughts and gives the surrounding people profound legal education.
If you pick three wild grasses, you will be sentenced to three years and fined 3000 yuan. Everyone will be shocked to see that. It seems that the punishment is too heavy. However, it can be seen from the report that this is not an ordinary roadside weed, but a key state protected plant Cymbidium. Qin's behavior is suspected of illegal logging of key state protected plants, and is punished according to law.
In fact, Cymbidium is a key protected plant of the state, and its resources are scarce. If it is cut at will, it will damage the ecosystem of rare and protected plants, and it is difficult to recover. Therefore, for the purpose of protecting the ecological environment, the State adopts relatively rigid legal provisions for this kind of criminal behavior. Once it is violated, it belongs to a crime and should be punished by law.
According to Qin's confession, he saw that there were "wild grass" similar to orchid grass growing on the hillside near the farmland, so he picked three plants when he came home after finishing his farm work. It may not be clear that they belong to the national key protected plants, and the plot is not too serious. However, no matter it is intentional or unintentional, it has violated the relevant laws, and it is also responsible for being punished. Moreover, judging from the result of the judgment, the probation measures are adopted, which are also based on the illegal consequences. There is a certain degree of leniency in sentencing, with the meaning of forgiveness, mainly warning and education.
Just last month, the people's Court of Shennongjia Forest Region heard a case of illegal destruction of state key protected plants. The defendants Yue and Zhu pleaded guilty to illegally damaging 9 and 4 Taxus chinensis plants under state protection. The collegial panel announced that Yue was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and a fine of 5000 yuan; Zhu was sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment and a fine of 3000 yuan. The plot of this case is more serious than that of Qin, and the sentencing is also heavier. The purpose of this case is to severely punish the crime of illegally picking and selling state key protected plants.
It can also be seen from Qin's case that many people do not understand the state's key protected plant varieties and the consequences of logging, which also shows that some people have weak legal awareness and lack of grass-roots law popularization. At present, many grassroots simply publicize the relevant laws, but they do not tell the public which animals and plants belong to the scope of national protection and can not be felled, killed or sold at will. As a result, the public may inadvertently violate the law. For example, some people were arrested for killing toads not long ago, and the reason is that they didn't know it was illegal.
Therefore, the public should strengthen the study of legal knowledge, understand the relevant information through multiple channels, and it is better not to easily cut and kill wild animals and plants, so as not to violate the law. Moreover, modern civilized society also advocates protecting the environment and living in harmony with animals and plants. The public should also enhance their personal civilization and not destroy the natural environment. As for the grass-roots legal popularization, in addition to the conventional Legal Popularization methods, we should also conform to the trend of the times, use network information technology to spread legal knowledge to the public, and carry out the cognitive work of animal and plant protection varieties.