Chapter 153 - Chapter 122 Zhang Wei: Good Thing I Didn't Take Their Case_3

If they added a few more charges, and the original twenty-seven-year total sentence, when accumulated upwards, exceeded thirty-five years, the actual sentence would be capped at twenty-five years! Under criminal law, a twenty-five-year sentence is considered the maximum, already on par with life imprisonment. This is because, during a life sentence, reductions can still be obtained through various acts of repentance and meritorious service. Criminal law stipulates that for prisoners serving life sentences or suspended death sentences, after two years of imprisonment, their sentences can be lawfully reduced to no less than eighteen years and no more than twenty years, depending on their conduct! The minimum can even be reduced to thirteen years. In a sense, the twenty-five-year maximum term for multiple concurrent sentences is already comparable to life imprisonment.