CHINA: MAN STANDS SECOND TRIAL, APPEALS DEATH PENALTY

Yang Jia, a jobless Beijing man who intruded into a Shanghai police bureau in China and allegedly killed six officers, stood on the second trial here, appealing against the death penalty handed down earlier by a Shanghai court. Lawyer Zhai Jian, who was appointed by the Shanghai Higher People's Court to defend Yang at the second trial, said that his defendant's fate would be largely on the new round of forensic psychiatric assessment at the trial. Yang Jia, 28, was sentenced to death on September 1 in the first trial at the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court for killing six officers and injuring four others in the assault on July 1.