Lin Zhijian, former mayor of Hsinchu City, was accused by investigator Yu Zhenghuang of plagiarizing papers. The two parties first appeared in court at the Taipei District Court on the 11th. Lin insisted that he wrote the paper using internal poll data he spent on his own money, and refuted plagiarism. Lawyer Wu Junda appointed by Yu broke the news following the trial. The judge asked Lin, “How did you write your thesis?” He replied “very tactfully and implicitly”, and kept jumping the needle, “I wrote it in the laboratory.” Can’t say anything else. As soon as this news came out, netizens rioted, and they all said they mightn’t believe it.
Wu Junda was interviewed by “China Times News Network” yesterday (12th) and said that on the day of the trial, the judge asked Lin Zhijian, “How did you write your thesis?” But he spoke very tactfully and implicitly, and replied, “I wrote it in Taipei and Hsinchu. I wrote it in my lab.”
Not only that, when the judge further asked Lin Zhijian, “Then how did you write it?” He mightn’t quite explain it. At most, he might only describe it as “I just wrote it in these two places!”
Lin Zhijian’s reaction not only surprised Wu Junda, but also caused heated discussions on the Internet as soon as the news came out. Netizens poured into PTT forums and related news links to leave messages: “Xiao Zhi! You have been given so much time to prepare, Xue Lun will have been ridiculed for not daring to go, and now you can’t even tell a story regarding how to write it? “” Seriously? It’s too funny”, “Can they broadcast live in court? I want to see how ridiculous it can be”, “At least it’s not written by hand”, “I don’t even know how to review questions, this is not an idiot, what is it? yes?”
