What is the role of forgiveness in the crime of causing traffic accidents?

1. What is the function of forgiveness for traffic accidents? 1, in the case of reaching a settlement agreement, the people's court shall give the defendant a lighter punishment; 2. If it meets the applicable conditions of non-imprisonment penalty, non-imprisonment penalty shall be applied; 3. If the statutory minimum penalty is still too heavy, the punishment may be mitigated; 4. Those who believe that the circumstances of the crime are minor and do not need to be sentenced to punishment may be exempted from criminal punishment. * * * In the same criminal case, if some defendants reach a settlement agreement with the victim, they can be given a lenient punishment according to law, but attention should be paid to the balance of sentencing in the whole case. Second, the writing method of the criminal letter of understanding has no fixed format. The purpose of issuing letters of understanding is to reduce the punishment of criminal suspects, and some can release criminal suspects on bail pending trial. Therefore, the letter of understanding is sent by the victim to the criminal's family, and the responsible lawyer will generally handle it for the criminal suspect. But if the circumstances are minor and you don't need to hire a lawyer, you can refer to the format of this letter of understanding. If the premise of the letter of understanding causes harm to the victim, it shall be clearly stated that the compensation has been reached and the actual compensation has ended. If there is no harm to the victim, there is no need to express it, but the focus of the letter of understanding should be clear that the victim has understood and the victim requests to be exempted from investigating the criminal responsibility of the defendant (criminal suspect). Third, how does the court decide the crime of causing traffic accidents? According to China's criminal law, those who violate traffic regulations and cause serious accidents, causing serious injuries, deaths or heavy losses to public and private property shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; Whoever escapes after a traffic accident or has other particularly bad circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years; Whoever escapes and causes death shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years. 1. Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years: (1) 1 Where more than three people are killed or seriously injured, and he is totally or heavily responsible for the accident; (2) more than 3 people were killed and were equally responsible for the accident; (three) caused direct losses to public or private property, bear all or the main responsibility, unable to compensate more than 300 thousand yuan. 2. Under any of the following circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years: (1) Causing two or more deaths or five or more serious injuries, and taking full or main responsibility for the accident; (2) more than 6 people were killed and were equally responsible for the accident; (three) caused direct losses to public or private property, bear all or major responsibilities, the amount of more than 600 thousand yuan is unable to compensate. 3. If the victim dies because he escaped without timely treatment, he may be sentenced to more than seven years' imprisonment. Because the criminal suspect who does not forgive the traffic accident crime belongs to the victim and his family, the lawyer of the criminal suspect and the criminal suspect themselves are not qualified to force the parties to choose the letter of forgiveness and compensate the victim, which is a legal obligation. You can't ask the parties to write a letter of forgiveness just because you have fulfilled your obligation of compensation. Even if a pardon is issued, it will not greatly affect the length of the sentence, and a lighter sentence can be imposed.