Court Observation Recruitment | Third Criminal Retrial of Former Handball National Team Athlete Ch'en Ching-k'ai Case: Pre-Retrial Investigation Hearing to Summon Associate Professor Chang Ch'ien-hui
Last edited: 2026-07-27
Ch'en Ching-k'ai lost his sight due to a car accident in 2009. After working hard to rehabilitate and return to daily life, he was reported for alleged malingering of blindness. Despite evaluations from National Taiwan University, diagnostic reports from multiple hospitals, and testimony from an orientation and mobility specialist for the blind, the court still concluded that Ch'en was not blind because he could catch a frisbee, play ball, and write, determining that he committed "malingered blindness" to defraud car insurance payouts. Ch'en was convicted of fraud by a final judgment on February 14, 2018.
Four years have passed, and Ch'en Ching-k'ai's first two applications for a criminal retrial were both dismissed.
Fortunately, he successively won two civil retrial lawsuits in August and December 2020, yet he has not yet reached the final mile toward criminal exoneration.
This criminal retrial is the third retrial application in this case, and it is a retrial initiated by prosecutors from the Kaohsiung Branch of the High Prosecutors Office following a resolution by the Conviction Review Committee of the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office. The Kaohsiung Branch Court of the Taiwan High Court held a retrial investigation hearing on April 1 to investigate whether there is a necessity to initiate a retrial in this case.
The second pre-trial investigation hearing for this case will be held on Friday, July 1, to summon expert Associate Professor Chang Ch'ien-hui (Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University) regarding the functional vision assessment report on cerebral visual impairment commissioned by the Control Yuan.
We sincerely invite everyone to attend the hearing, follow the subsequent developments of the case, and walk the path to exoneration together with Ching-k'ai!
Time
Friday, July 1, 2022, at 10:00
Location
Third Courtroom, 1st Floor, Kaohsiung Branch Court, Taiwan High Court (No. 586, Mingsheng 3rd Rd., Gushan Dist., Kaohsiung City)
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