How long does it take for the court to plead guilty and admit punishment according to the expedited procedure?

Pleading guilty and admitting punishment is in line with the quick ruling procedure. The court will open in ten days. There is no clear stipulation on how long to hold a court session after pleading guilty, but the facts are clear and the evidence is sufficient for cases under the jurisdiction of the basic people's courts that may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years; If the parties have no dispute over the applicable law and the defendant pleads guilty and agrees to apply the expedited procedure, the expedited procedure may be applied and a decision shall be made within 1 days. If the term of imprisonment may exceed one year, it may be extended to fifteen days.

Benefits of voluntary confession and punishment:

1. Legal help. For criminal suspects and defendants who have not hired defenders, the lawyers on duty will provide them with legal advice, suggestions on procedure selection, applications for changing compulsory measures and suggestions on handling cases;

2. lenient treatment. The leniency system can be applied to three stages: investigation, prosecution and trial. The sooner you confess leniency, the sooner you will return to society.

3. Deal with it quickly. Simplify handling procedures, save judicial resources, and let criminal suspects know in advance what punishment they should receive.

A complete criminal procedure includes:

1. Investigation stage (public security stage): from the time a person is arrested to the time the case is transferred to the procuratorate, this stage is called "investigation stage" and generally lasts about three months. It mainly includes detention for more than one month and arrest for about two months. The focus of this stage is to find out the ins and outs of the case and the basic facts through the investigation of the public security department;

2. review and prosecution stage (procuratorate stage): after the case is transferred from the public security organ to the prosecution department of the procuratorate, it enters the review and prosecution stage;

3. Trial stage (trial stage): At this stage, after the people's court has examined the case in which public prosecution was initiated, if the facts of the crime alleged in the indictment are clear, and the evidence list, witness list and copies or photos of the main evidence are attached, it shall decide to hold a trial. Except for cases involving state secrets or personal privacy, the people's courts try cases of first instance in public.

To sum up, the trial period of the summary procedure of confession and punishment is generally ten days. If the case may need to be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than one year, it may be extended to 15 days. For cases that may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, if the facts of the case are clear, summary procedures may be applied.

Legal basis:

Article 172 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)

The people's procuratorate shall make a decision on the case transferred for prosecution by the supervisory organ or the public security organ within one month, and major and complicated cases may be extended for fifteen days; If a criminal suspect pleads guilty and admits punishment and meets the applicable conditions of summary procedure, he shall make a decision within ten days, and may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than one year, which may be extended to fifteen days.

if the people's procuratorate examines and prosecutes a case and changes its jurisdiction, the time limit for examination and prosecution shall be counted from the date when the changed people's procuratorate receives the case.