Late on the night of March 23, the reporter learned from Lao Rongzhi's family that there had been new developments in Lao Rongzhi's case. On the afternoon of March 22, the Supreme People's Court's death penalty review court in the Lao Rongzhi case heard Lao Rongzhi's defense lawyer's defense opinion in person, and the lawyer also submitted 282 pages of defense opinion materials of about 200,000 words, but the specific details are temporarily inconvenient to be made public.

Late on the night of the 23rd, Lao Rongzhi's family revealed to reporters that on the afternoon of March 22, the Supreme People's Court's death penalty review court in the Lao Rongzhi case heard the defense lawyer's defense opinion in person, and the lawyer also submitted 282 pages of defense opinion materials with about 200,000 words.

Subsequently, the reporter asked the defense lawyer for evidence in the Lao Rongzhi case, and this news was true.

The reporter further asked the defense lawyer for specific defense opinions, and the lawyer said that the overall opinion was that the second-instance death penalty ruling should not be approved, but the specific content could not be disclosed. At the same time, the review court also reported to the lawyer that the lawyer's application for procuratorial supervision of the death penalty review in labor cases was received and contacted by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate received and contacted the review tribunal, and will conduct procuratorial supervision as the case progresses.

The defense lawyers also said that the Supreme People's Court has done a very good job in ensuring that lawyers perform their defense duties, and they are very moved; The RRT also indicated to them that it could contact the RRT at any time if new observations and materials were subsequently available.

This also means that the lawyer's defense work in the review stage of the Lao Rongzhi case is basically completed, after which the Supreme Court will make a review ruling on the case, and generally speaking, the result of the ruling is only two, one is to approve the death penalty and the other is not to approve the death penalty.

Previously, the reporter had repeatedly followed up and reported on the Lao Rongzhi case, and also observed the whole process of the trial and judgment of the first and second instance of the case. On the morning of November 30, 2022, the Jiangxi Provincial Higher People's Court publicly pronounced a second-instance verdict on Lao Rongzhi's appeal case of intentional homicide, robbery, and kidnapping. The ruling dismissed the appeal, upheld the original sentence, and submitted the death sentence ruling against Lao Rongzhi to the Supreme People's Court for approval in accordance with the law.