According to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law, general criminal cases generally go through three stages, namely, investigation stage (public security organs), examination and prosecution stage (people's procuratorate) and trial stage (people's court).
First, the investigation stage:
Article 154? The period of investigation and detention of a criminal suspect after his arrest shall not exceed two months. If the case is complicated and cannot be concluded at the expiration of the time limit, it may be extended for one month with the approval of the people's procuratorate at the next higher level.
Article 160? When investigating a closed case, the public security organ shall ensure that the facts of the crime are clear and the evidence is true and sufficient, write a prosecution opinion and transfer it to the people's procuratorate at the same level for examination and decision together with the case file and evidence; At the same time, inform the criminal suspect and his defense lawyer about the transfer of the case.
Second, the review and prosecution stage:
Article 169? The people's procuratorate shall make a decision on the case transferred for prosecution by the public security organ within one month, and the major and complicated cases may be extended by half a month.
Article 172? If the people's procuratorate believes that the criminal facts of the criminal suspect have been ascertained and the evidence is true and sufficient, and criminal responsibility should be investigated according to law, it shall make a decision to prosecute, file a public prosecution with the people's court in accordance with the provisions of jurisdiction, and transfer the case files and evidence to the people's court.
Third, the trial stage:
Article 202? When trying a case of public prosecution, the people's court shall pronounce a judgment within two months after accepting it, and no later than three months. For a case that may be sentenced to death or an incidental civil lawsuit, if one of the circumstances stipulated in Article 156 of this Law occurs, it may be extended for three months with the approval of the people's court at the next higher level; Due to special circumstances need to be extended, it shall be submitted to the Supreme People's Court for approval.
Related information:
Although theft is usually secret, its original intention is also secret theft, but theft can not be limited to secret theft, otherwise it will lead to unfair punishment.
Article 264 of China's criminal law is "stealing public or private property", but it is not said to be "secret". However, the Supreme People's Court's Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in the Trial of Theft Cases (1998.3. 17) interprets "theft" as "secret theft", so China's criminal law generally believes that theft requires secret theft.