Tian said that he believed that he contracted the land and planted the trees himself. Of course, he has the right to cut down trees, and cutting down trees is also for the trees to grow better. So, without a logging license, he defined the scope of tree felling and found someone to cut down the trees. * * * Cut down more than 700 poplar trees.
After the incident, Tian was arrested. At the public security organ, the police warned Zhitian that cutting down trees without a license is illegal. Only then did Tian understand that the trees he planted could not be cut down casually. After Tian understood the situation, he actively cooperated with the judicial authorities in handling the case.
The court held that Tian’s behavior constituted the crime of deforestation, but it was subjectively harmless and his attitude of pleading guilty was good, so he was given a lighter punishment.
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Sentencing for the crime of deforestation
According to the provisions of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security on the filing and prosecution standards for criminal cases under the jurisdiction of public security organs, in the absence of Without a logging permit, logging more than 10 cubic meters of trees or 500 saplings owned by oneself is suspected of constituting the crime of indiscriminate logging.
At the same time, Paragraph 2 of Article 345 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that anyone who violates the provisions of the Forest Law and illegally logs forests or other trees in relatively large quantities shall be sentenced to a fixed term of not more than three years. Imprisonment, criminal detention or public surveillance, and concurrently or solely a fine; if the amount is huge, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.