Summary of criminal judgments of the travelling court in Vietnam

Travelling trial of a criminal case is to bring that criminal case to trial in the locality where the case occurs (not at the court's office). Moreover, they are often key cases of a serious nature.

At present, travelling court is considered one of the effective measures to propagate, disseminate, deter and educate the law to the masses.

Below are the court judgments of the criminal courts:

1. Judgment No. 30/2019/HS-ST for illegal possession of narcotics 

- Level of trial: First instance

- Judicial agency: People's Court of district T, city H.

- Quoting the content: "Around 12:30 on December 4, 2018, the Task Force of the Drug Crime Investigation Police Team of District T Police combined with the Coast Guard force, the Traffic Police Station L and the T commune police on duty discovered that Do Van K showed signs of illegally hiding drugs. During the inspection, the police force seized K's left front breast pocket with 01 plastic bag inside with 05 white paper packages containing white powder (suspected to be drugs) and 01 car. motorcycle. The working group brought K and the evidence to the police station of T commune to make a record to arrest the person who committed the crime in the red."

2. Judgment No. 20/2018/HS-ST of property theft 

- Level of trial: First instance

- Judicial agency: People's Court of Cua Lo town, Nghe An province.

- Quote content: “Around 22:00, on April 14, 2018, Nguyen Van T walked alone from his house in block 9, NT ward, town C to the embankment area in block 3, Nghi Tan ward. While sitting on the embankment playing until about 00:30 on April 15, 2018, T walked into the cultural house area of block 4, Nghi Tan ward, and discovered that there was a house under construction (the house of Mr. Q). Because he did not see anyone to watch, T had stolen property. After that, T pulled the door into the house and discovered that there was a spare light on the plastic cabinet in the kitchen, T took that light, then went out near the door to detect and steal two more coils of electricity 2.5 cups and 1.5 cups to take home and hide. Through investigation and initial verification, the police of Nghi T ward identified Nguyen Van T as the subject of the act of stealing Mr. Q's property on the evening of April 14, 2018 and then Nguyen Van T voluntarily handed over Mr. surrender the stolen property to the police.

3. Judgment No. 127/2017/HS-PT for illegal possession of narcotics 

- Judgment level: Appellate

- Judicial body:  Tay Ninh People's Court.

- Quoting the content: "Around the beginning of June 2017, P went to Hoc Mon district, Ho Chi Minh City to meet Xe and buy 1,000,000 VND of drugs. Then, X told P, "On June 12, 2017 I brought drugs to Tay Ninh to sell", after hearing that, P ordered Xo 4,000,000 VND of drugs. At about 9 a.m. on June 12, 2017, X called P to ask if he had bought drugs and P said to buy VND 4,000,000. Around 12 o'clock on the same day, X called P to get drugs. During this time, P went to Nguyen Van M's house to borrow M's 01 car and said he was going to drink coffee, but he went to X to buy 02 bags of drugs. After buying drugs, P looked for a place to use it, but was arrested by the Drug Crime Investigation Team of the Police and seized with evidence.

4. Judgment No. 14/2017/HS-ST for illegal possession of narcotics 

- Level of trial: First instance

- Judicial body:  People's Court of Krong A Na District - Dak Lak.

- Quoting the content: "About 15 o'clock on June 17, 2017, Nguyen C picked up a car to buy drugs for use. Here, C found and bought drugs from a man in the amount of 500,000 VND, this man gave C 01 white foil package, inside containing Heroin. Then C took the bus home and took some drugs to use, the rest C put in a pack of Jet brand cigarettes and kept them in his body. At about 10 o'clock on June 18, 2017, C was caught by the police of district K and seized in his bag when he was going to the area of ​​residential group 2, town B, district K to use drugs. In C's left pants, there is 01 pack of Jet medicine, inside there is a package of white foil containing brownish-white powder, C declares that it is Heroin."

5. Judgment No. 29/2017/HS-ST for property theft 

- Level of trial: First instance

- Judicial agency: People's Court of District A, An Giang province.

- Quote from the content: "About 12 o'clock on May 17, 2017, Le Hoang C1 drove a car carrying Nguyen Tuan P from city C to town A, district A, An Giang province looking for an acquaintance named H. When H did not meet, they discussed appropriating other people's properties to sell for money to spend. Around 13 o'clock on the same day, both went to the area of ​​hamlet A, town A, district A, An Giang province, and discovered the house. Mr. Nguyen C opened the door, inside there was 01 cal of plastic containing "Tuong An" cooking oil, thinking it was gasoline, so C1 stopped the car for P to get in. When P went in to get a cal of cooking oil and brought it to the car, Mr. C found him holding P and C1 and then reported the police of town A to come and catch him with the evidence."