ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an interview of two Taiwanese appellate court judges, Jong-Yi Chiou and Meng-Hwang Lin. Both judges are presently criminal court judges. Interviews with Judges Chiou and Lin were conducted in Mandarin, and the author later translated the judges' response into English. District courts are the primary trial courts that have original jurisdiction for almost all types of cases. There are 19 district courts and one juvenile/family court under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan High Court, plus two district courts under the jurisdiction of the Kinmen Branch of the Fuchien High Court. He worked in the Department of Prosecutorial Affairs within the Ministry of Justice of Taiwan. He began his judgeship at the Hsinchu District Court and then was promoted to be a criminal-division judge at the Taiwan High Court. Judge Lin had been a lower court judge at the Taipei District Court before he was appointed to the Taiwan High Court in September 2015 as criminal-division judge.
