1. The criminal understanding shall be signed by the victim, the victim's guardian, legal representative or relatives. Criminal understanding is a unilateral legal document and a unilateral act. As long as it is issued, it has legal effect without the signature of both parties.
2. Legal basis: Article 288 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
In the following cases of public prosecution, the criminal suspect or defendant sincerely repents and obtains the understanding of the victim by means of compensation for losses, apology, etc. , and the victim voluntarily reconciled, both parties can reconcile:
(a) due to a civil dispute, suspected of criminal cases stipulated in Chapters IV and V of the Specific Provisions of the Criminal Law, and may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years;
(two) criminal cases of negligence other than dereliction of duty that may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than seven years.
If a criminal suspect or defendant intentionally commits a crime within five years, the procedures specified in this chapter shall not apply.
Second, what is a letter of understanding?
The correct way to write a letter of understanding. The number of criminal cases that can issue letters of understanding is limited, and the specific writing is as follows:
1, which should include the title, basic information of victims and defendants, the name of the submitting court and other information;
2, the letter of understanding should be clearly written because of what events, who expressed understanding to whom;
3. If the victim has made economic compensation or returned stolen goods, it needs to be clearly written in the understanding;
4. In the letter of understanding, the type of responsibility not to be investigated should be clearly written, that is, not to be investigated at all or not to be investigated by the department.