UNDER THE SAME BOAT

Kindness is a universal value, but if the price of kindness is 18 years in prison, would you still choose it?
人性本善是普世的價值觀，但如果善良的代價是被法院判下18年的刑期，你還會選擇善良嗎？

20 years ago, CHEN Huo-sheng was a captain and also the central figure in a drug trafficking case. He believed the justice system would eventually clear his name, not knowing that the clouds of injustice are harder to escape than pirates at sea. The formation of a wrongful conviction seems complex, but upon closer examination, it’s not difficult to understand. But the question is, does injustice only have one face? CHEN may have been wronged, but the drugs were indeed brought back through him, and a seemingly unintentional mistake resulted in an 18-year sentence. So, let us use this case to explore Taiwan’s judicial structure in depth.
20年前，陳火盛是一名船長，同時也是一宗運毒案的主角。他以為司法終會還他一個清白，卻不知道受冤的烏雲比海上的海盜還難纏。一個冤案的形成，看似複雜，但其實也不難理解。只是，冤，難道只有一種樣子嗎？陳火盛或許有冤，但毒品確實也是從他手上帶回來的，一個看似無心之過就得扛上18年的刑期。那麼，讓我們以這個案子來深探台灣司法的結構。