How long will a criminal case be prosecuted in the procuratorate?

Legal analysis: After the case arrives at the procuratorate, the prosecution time is generally within one month. 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 the 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.

Legal basis: Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 172 The People's Procuratorate shall make a decision on a case transferred for prosecution by a supervisory organ or a public security organ within one month. For major and complicated cases, it 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.

Article 173 When examining a case, the people's procuratorate shall interrogate the criminal suspect, listen to the opinions of the defender or the lawyer on duty, the victim and his agent ad litem, and put them on record. If the defender or the lawyer on duty, the victim and his agent ad litem put forward written opinions, they shall attach a volume. If a criminal suspect pleads guilty and admits punishment, the people's procuratorate shall inform him of his litigation rights and the legal provisions of pleading guilty and admitting punishment, listen to the opinions of the criminal suspect, defender or lawyer on duty, victim and his agent ad litem on the following matters, and record them: (1) Suspected criminal facts, charges and applicable legal provisions; (2) Suggestions on a lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment; (3) Procedures applicable to the trial of cases after pleading guilty and admitting punishment; (four) other matters that need to listen to opinions. If the people's procuratorate listens to the opinions of the lawyers on duty in accordance with the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, it shall provide necessary convenience for the lawyers on duty to know the relevant situation of the case in advance.