The Murder Case that Brought Down Chinese Communist Party Leader Bo Xilai
Former Chinese political leader Bo Xilai’s wife was charged with the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
Gu Kailai is accused of poisoning Heywood in his hotel room last November, and faces a death sentence.
Kailai is due in court this month.
But as The World’s correspondent Mary Kay Magistad tells anchor Aaron Schachter, some aspects of this judicial process may have already been decided for Kailai.
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