Draft complete civil or criminal judgments based on the document-production standards of Chinese people's courts. Use this skill when the user asks to "draft a judgment", "generate a judicial document", "write a civil judgment", "write a criminal judgment", "prepare a document from the case file", or provides case-file materials and requests a judgment document. While drafting each section, autonomously invoke atomic skills (e.g., dispute-issue identification, statutory retrieval, deductive reasoning, evidence-efficacy evaluation).
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Draft complete civil or criminal judgments based on the document-production standards of Chinese people's courts. Use this skill when the user asks to "draft a judgment", "generate a judicial document", "write a civil judgment", "write a criminal judgment", "prepare a document from the case file", or provides case-file materials and requests a judgment document. While drafting each section, autonomously invoke atomic skills (e.g., dispute-issue identification, statutory retrieval, deductive reasoning, evidence-efficacy evaluation).
Convert case-file materials into format-compliant civil or criminal judicial documents. This skill does not itself perform statutory retrieval or evidence evaluation; rather, while drafting each section of the document, it identifies what legal judgment is currently required, explicitly invokes the corresponding atomic skill, and integrates that skill's result into the document text. Before drafting each paragraph, first determine which capability must be invoked, invoke it, and only then proceed with drafting.
Instruction Steps
Step 1: Input
Read all case-file materials provided by the user and complete the following two steps:
Determine civil vs. criminal, based on these signals:
Plaintiff is a natural person / legal person → civil; prosecuting authority is a people's procuratorate → criminal; if the plaintiff is a natural person but the cause of action or claims seek criminal liability (e.g., intentional injury, defamation), classify as a criminal (private prosecution) case → criminal
Core dispute concerns civil rights and obligations → civil; core dispute concerns whether a crime is constituted → criminal
If materials are insufficient to decide → pause and ask the user to supplement
Invoke Legal Core Element Extraction (Skill #4) to extract and register from the case file: party information, legal relationship (preliminary), claims or charges, key factual timeline, evidence list, and procedural information. Mark each item as "complete" or "missing".
Note: If party identity information is severely incomplete (unable to identify plaintiff/defendant or the accused), pause drafting and list the missing items for the user.
Outcome routing: civil → Step 2-A; criminal → Step 2-B; if pause is triggered → immediately terminate this skill run, output the missing-items list, and wait for the user's reply.
Step 2-A: Drafting a Civil Judgment
Draft in the following seven-section order. Before drafting each section, confirm whether an atomic skill must be invoked; if so, invoke it and record the result.
A-1. Caption / Title
Court name (prefix provincial name for basic-level / intermediate courts; for foreign-related cases, prefix "People's Republic of China")
Document name (Civil Judgment)
Case number: (year) court abbreviation + type abbreviation + serial number + "号". Year in Arabic numerals; full-width parentheses.
A-2. Opening — Parties and Procedural History
Natural person: name, sex, date of birth, ethnicity, occupation / unit and position, domicile (per ID card / household registration)
Legal person: full name, domicile, legal representative's name and position
Litigation-status order: first instance — plaintiff → defendant → third party; second instance — appellant (note first-instance status in parentheses) → appellee → others
Appointed litigation agents on a separate line; for lawyers write "Name, lawyer of XX Law Firm"
Punctuation: colon after litigation status; comma after the name
Case origin: state case name and source; procedural history: filing date, applicable procedure, hearing modality, persons appearing in court
Invoke:Dispute Issues and Legal Relationship Identification (Skill #6) → confirm the cause of action is accurate.
A-3. Facts Section
Draft three parts in order:
(1) Pleadings / arguments: Plaintiff's claims + factual grounds → defendant's defense → third-party statements. Synthesize the complaint and trial submissions; do not copy verbatim. After "the defendant argued" use a comma; after "××× submitted the following claims to this Court" use a colon.
(2) Evidence exchange / cross-examination overview: Start a new paragraph: "The parties in this case submitted evidence in accordance with law around the claims, and this Court organized evidence exchange and cross-examination."
(3) Evidence findings and fact findings:
Undisputed evidence: "Evidence to which the parties raised no objection is confirmed by this Court and is on file for corroboration."
Disputed evidence: Invoke Evidence Efficacy (Skill #12) → evaluate authenticity, legality, and relevance (the "three attributes") and probative force item by item → state the evidence name, the court's finding, and the reasons.
Narrate fact findings chronologically; may use the lead-in "It is further found that" for supplements.
Note (three situations that require a mandatory pause):
Plaintiff and defendant give completely contradictory accounts of the same fact and both have evidence → invoke Evidence Efficacy (Skill #12) + Conflict Resolution and Priority Determination (Skill #20); reach a conclusion before continuing
Key evidence's three attributes are in doubt (unclear source; photocopy without original for comparison) → invoke Evidence Efficacy (Skill #12) and first conclude whether the evidence is admitted
Characterization of the legal relationship is disputed (e.g., dispute over contract nature) → invoke Dispute Issues and Legal Relationship Identification (Skill #6) + Legal Concept Comprehension (Skill #5); the characterization conclusion determines how facts are narrated
A-4. Reasoning Section ("This Court holds")
Begin with "This Court holds," (note: followed by a comma). This is the core paragraph of the document; apply the following skill-invocation rules:
Step
Atomic skill invoked
Purpose
1
Dispute Issues and Legal Relationship Identification (Skill #6)
Determine dispute nature; list dispute issues
2
Statutory Retrieval (Skill #8)
Retrieve laws, regulations, and judicial interpretations corresponding to the dispute issues; if legal conflict exists, determine priority
3
Conflict Resolution and Priority Determination (Skill #20)
If rights conflict exists, determine priority
4
Deductive Reasoning (Skill #16)
Syllogism: major premise (legal norm) + minor premise (found facts) → conclusion; argue each dispute issue one by one
5
Case Retrieval (Skill #9)
When Guiding Cases must be cited
6
Judicial Value Judgment (Skill #22)
Weighing of civil interests in adjudication
Reasoning structure requirements:
Unfold issue by issue around the dispute foci, with clear hierarchy
When citing law, always state: full official title of the normative document + article/paragraph/item numbers
When citing an "item" (项), always use Chinese characters without parentheses (e.g., "第一项", not "第（一）项")
The closing paragraph may use "In summary" to introduce an overall assessment of whether the claims are supported
Note:
Conflict among statutes → invoke Statutory Retrieval (Skill #8); determine hierarchy under the Legislation Law before continuing
Subsumption between facts and statutory elements is ambiguous → invoke Legal Concept Comprehension (Skill #5) to define the concept's extension first, then judge whether the facts fall within it
Interest balancing or proportionality review is needed → invoke Judicial Value Judgment (Skill #22); make the balancing process explicit; do not avoid it
A-5. Legal Basis for Adjudication
After "Pursuant to", list the statutory provisions relied on for judgment, in this citation order:
Laws and legislative interpretations → administrative regulations → local regulations → judicial interpretations
Same tier: basic laws first, other laws later
Substantive law before procedural law
Prohibited citations: the Constitution; trial guidance documents of courts at any level; meeting minutes; reply opinions (their principles may be elaborated in reasoning but may not serve as adjudicative basis).
Format: "Pursuant to Article ×, Paragraph ×, Item × of the ××× …, the judgment is as follows:" (use a colon after "the judgment is as follows")
A-6. Operative Provisions (Judgment Main Text)
Serial numbers in Chinese numerals (一、二、三……), followed by a 顿号 (enumeration comma)
Use parties' full names
Money judgments must state: principal for interest calculation, interest rate, start and end dates
For multiple monetary awards, first list each item name and amount, then the aggregate amount
Performance deadlines must be definite
A-7. Closing and Signature Block
Litigation costs: separate paragraph (not part of the operative provisions); state case acceptance fee and who bears it
Delayed-performance notice (mandatory when there is a monetary payment obligation): "If the monetary payment obligation is not performed within the period designated by this judgment, debt interest for the period of delayed performance shall be paid in double pursuant to Article 264 of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China."
Appeal rights notice: "If dissatisfied with this judgment, an appeal petition may be submitted to this Court within fifteen days from the date of service of the judgment, with copies according to the number of opposing parties or their representatives, appealing to the ×××× People's Court."
Signature block: signatures of the presiding judge / judges / people's assessors → date in Chinese numerals (e.g., 二〇二四年八月二十九日) → "This copy has been verified against the original" → clerk's signature
Step 2-B: Drafting a Criminal Judgment
Strictly follow the criminal judgment form (ordinary procedure for first-instance public prosecution cases), drafting in the following order.
B-1. Caption / Title
Same format as civil; change the document name to "Criminal Judgment" and the case-number type abbreviation to the criminal abbreviation.
B-2. Opening
Prosecuting authority: "Prosecuting authority ××× People's Procuratorate." (no punctuation or space between the name and "Prosecuting authority")
Defendant's basic information: name (note aliases / assumed names in parentheses), sex, date of birth (mandatory for minors), ethnicity, place of birth, education level, occupation / unit and position, domicile, prior convictions, compulsory measures (detention / arrest dates, for sentence offset), current place of custody
Multiple defendants ordered by principal–accessory relationship
Defense counsel on a separate line: name, work unit, and position; for assigned counsel write "Assigned defense counsel"
Procedural history: procuratorate indictment number and filing date → collegial panel composition → hearing modality → persons appearing → close with "The trial of this case is now concluded."
B-3. Facts Section
Write in four natural paragraphs:
Crimes charged by the procuratorate, evidence, and legal opinions → invoke Legal Core Element Extraction (Skill #4)
Defendant's confession, explanations, and self-defense opinions
Defense counsel's opinions and evidence
"It is found upon trial that ……" → facts found by the court + evidence relied on for conviction and its sources + analysis and authentication of disputed evidence
→ invoke Evidence Efficacy (Skill #12) + Dispute Issues and Legal Relationship Identification (Skill #6)
Fact-narration rules: chronological order; for one person with multiple crimes, narrate by primacy of offenses; for joint crimes, narrate along the principal offender as the main thread; for organized-group crimes, summarize first then detail separately.
Note: When prosecution and defense have major disputes over the criminal facts, you must first invoke Evidence Efficacy (Skill #12) to analyze and authenticate item by item. It is strictly forbidden to replace concrete authentication with vague formulations such as "the evidence is ample, the defendant also confessed without reservation, and the facts are sufficiently established."
B-4. Reasoning Section ("This Court holds")
Mandatory invocation chain:
Step
Atomic skill invoked
Purpose
1
Dispute Issues and Legal Relationship Identification (Skill #6)
Decide whether the defendant's conduct constitutes a crime and which crime
2
Statutory Retrieval (Skill #8)
Retrieve Criminal Law articles and related judicial interpretations
3
Deductive Reasoning (Skill #16)
Build a syllogism with constitutive elements as major premise and found facts as minor premise
4
Case Retrieval (Skill #9)
When Guiding Cases must be cited
5
Judicial Value Judgment (Skill #22)
Find circumstances for lighter, mitigated, exempted, or heavier punishment
Reasoning must cover: whether the charges are established → whether the conduct constitutes a crime → determination of the offense → sentencing circumstances → analytical acceptance or rejection of both sides' legal opinions, with reasons stated.
Citation order for adjudicative basis: conviction and sentencing-range articles → lighter / mitigated / aggravated articles → principal penalty articles → supplementary penalty articles; statutes before judicial interpretations.
B-5. Judgment Outcome
Conviction and sentence: "Defendant ××× is guilty of the crime of ×× and is sentenced to …… (principal penalty, supplementary penalty). (Explanation of sentence offset.)"
Conviction with exemption from punishment: "Defendant ××× is guilty of the crime of ×× and is exempted from criminal punishment."
Acquittal: "Defendant ××× is not guilty."
Notes:
Write full names of penalty types; no abbreviations (do not write "死缓"; write "sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution")
Fixed-term imprisonment must state penalty type, term, offset method, and start/end dates
Recovery / restitution / confiscation must state name, type, and amount
Concurrent punishment for multiple crimes: convict and sentence for each crime separately, then decide the sentence to be executed; do not "lump estimate" sentencing
Multiple defendants: adjudicate person by person by primacy of culpability or severity of penalty
B-6. Closing and Signature Block
Appeal rights notice: "If dissatisfied with this judgment, an appeal may be filed through this Court or directly with the ××× People's Court within ten days from the day after receipt of the judgment. For a written appeal, one original and × copies of the appeal petition shall be submitted."
Where Article 63, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Law applies, add: "This judgment takes effect upon approval by the Supreme People's Court in accordance with law."
Signature-block format same as civil (presiding judge / judges' signatures → Chinese-numeral date → "This copy has been verified against the original" → clerk's signature)
Step 3: Full-Text Format Compliance Check
After the full document is drafted, verify each item on the checklist below. If any item fails, return to the corresponding section, correct it, and re-verify.
Check item
Correct practice
Common error
Operative-provision serial numbers
Chinese numerals + 顿号 (一、二、三、)
Arabic numerals "1. 2. 3."
Signature-block date
Chinese numerals (二〇二四年八月二十九日)
Arabic numerals "2024年8月29日"
Case-number year
Arabic numerals + full-width parentheses （2024）
Chinese characters or half-width/Chinese parentheses
After "This Court holds"
Comma
Colon
After "the judgment is as follows"
Colon
Comma or period
After "the defendant argued"
Comma
Colon
Legal citation
Full title + book-title marks + article/paragraph/item numbers + text of the provision
Citing numbers only without the text
Citing an "item"
Chinese characters without parentheses ("第一项")
"第（一）项" or "第1项"
Location of litigation costs
Separate paragraph after the operative provisions; not part of them
Written into the operative provisions
Delayed-performance notice
Mandatory when there is a monetary payment obligation
Omitted
Party names
Consistent across opening, facts, and operative provisions
Inconsistent or abbreviated
Step 4: Output
Present the verified complete judgment to the user as plain text, preserving the formal layout of a judicial document.
Example output structure (civil):
××× People's Court
Civil Judgment
（2024）×民初×号
Plaintiff: ……
Defendant: ……
…… case origin and procedural history ……
Plaintiff ××× submitted the following claims to this Court: ……
Defendant ××× argued, ……
The parties in this case submitted evidence in accordance with law around the claims……
Based on the parties' statements and evidence confirmed upon review, this Court finds the facts as follows: ……
This Court holds, ……
Pursuant to Article × of the *……*, the judgment is as follows:
一、……
二、……
If the monetary payment obligation is not performed within the period designated by this judgment……
Case acceptance fee …… yuan, to be borne by …….
If dissatisfied with this judgment……
Presiding Judge ×××
Judge ×××
Judge ×××
二〇××年×月××日
This copy has been verified against the original
Clerk ×××
Example 1: Civil Judgment
Input
【Case-file summary】
Plaintiff Supply-Chain Co. and Defendant Trading Co. signed a Product Sales Contract providing for monthly settlement. Trading Co. owed RMB 1,355,570.49, issued a Payment Plan confirming the debt and installment schedule, and Zheng signed a Letter of Guarantee undertaking joint and several guarantee. After the plan was issued, Trading Co. paid RMB 231,884.63; the balance of RMB 1,123,685.86 remained unpaid. Plaintiff sued for payment of the balance and liquidated damages, with Zheng to bear joint and several liability. Zheng failed to appear after being summoned.
Claims: ① pay balance RMB 1,123,685.86 and liquidated damages; ② Zheng to bear joint and several liability
Procedure: first-instance ordinary procedure; Zheng in default
Court: Beijing Daxing District People's Court
Case number: （2025）京0115民初34164号
Dispute Issues and Legal Relationship Identification:
Cause of action: sales contract dispute
Dispute issues: ① whether the outstanding amount is established; ② liquidated-damages calculation standard and start date; ③ whether Zheng bears joint and several liability
Evidence Efficacy Evaluation:
Original Product Sales Contract: no objection by either side; admitted
Payment Plan and Letter of Guarantee: no objection by either side; admitted
Payment records: both sides confirm RMB 231,884.63 paid; admitted
Statutory Retrieval:
No statutory conflict; application priority: Civil Code ＞ Civil Procedure Law ＞ judicial interpretations
Civil Code Art. 509: "The parties shall fully perform their own obligations as agreed."
Civil Code Art. 577: "Where a party fails to perform its contractual obligations or its performance does not conform to the agreement, it shall bear default liability such as continuing performance, taking remedial measures, or compensating for losses."
Civil Code Art. 585: "The parties may agree that if one party breaches the contract it shall pay the other a certain amount of liquidated damages according to the breach, and may also agree on a method for calculating the amount of compensation for losses arising from the breach. Where the agreed liquidated damages are lower than the losses caused, the people's court or arbitration institution may, upon a party's request, increase them; where the agreed liquidated damages are excessively higher than the losses caused, the people's court or arbitration institution may, upon a party's request, appropriately reduce them. Where the parties agree on liquidated damages for delayed performance, after paying the liquidated damages the breaching party shall still perform the debt."
Civil Code Art. 626: "The buyer shall pay the price according to the agreed amount and method of payment. Where there is no agreement or the agreement is unclear as to the amount and method of payment, Articles 510 and 511, Items 2 and 5 of this Code apply."
Civil Code Art. 628: "The buyer shall pay the price at the agreed time. Where there is no agreement or the agreement is unclear as to the time of payment, and it still cannot be determined under Article 510 of this Code, the buyer shall pay at the same time as receiving the subject matter or the documents for taking delivery of the subject matter."
Civil Code Art. 688: "Where the parties to a guarantee contract agree that the guarantor and the debtor shall bear joint and several liability for the debt, it is a joint and several liability guarantee. Where the debtor under a joint and several liability guarantee fails to perform a due debt or a circumstance agreed by the parties occurs, the creditor may request the debtor to perform the debt, or may request the guarantor to assume guarantee liability within the scope of its guarantee."
Civil Procedure Law Art. 40: "When trying a first-instance civil case, a people's court shall form a collegial panel of judges and people's assessors or of judges. The number of members of a collegial panel must be odd."
Civil Procedure Law Art. 147: "Where a defendant, having been summoned by summons, refuses to appear in court without justified reason, or withdraws midway without the court's permission, a judgment by default may be rendered."
Conflict Resolution and Priority Determination:
No rights conflict in this case; only disagreement over the liquidated-damages claim. Norms apply by superior law over inferior law and primary law over judicial interpretation; no rights-priority determination is needed.
Deductive Reasoning:
Principal of goods: Major premise Civil Code Arts. 509 and 626 (perform payment obligation as agreed); minor premise contract valid, plaintiff performed, Trading Co. acknowledged unpaid RMB 1,123,685.86; conclusion support plaintiff's principal claim.
Liquidated-damages standard: Major premise Civil Code Art. 585 (excessive liquidated damages may be adjusted) and Art. 18 of the sales-contract judicial interpretation; minor premise plaintiff already reduced daily 1‰ liquidated damages to four times LPR, Trading Co. did not prove losses below that standard; conclusion support four-times-LPR standard.
Liquidated-damages start date: Major premise Civil Code Art. 577 (liquidated damages run from the date of breach); minor premise Trading Co. failed to pay the first installment under the payment plan on 2024-11-25; court adjusted the start point in light of the facts; conclusion start from 2024-12-26.
Joint and several liability: Major premise Civil Code Art. 688 (joint and several guarantee liability as agreed); minor premise Zheng signed the letter of guarantee undertaking joint and several guarantee, no exemption circumstance, and failed to appear to defend; conclusion Zheng bears joint and several liability.
Case Retrieval:
No need to cite Guiding Cases; the court adjudicates directly under statutes and judicial interpretations.
Judicial Value Judgment:
Uphold pacta sunt servanda, recognize the validity of the contract / instruments, and respect party autonomy;
Balance the principle of fairness, fine-tune the liquidated-damages start date, both condemning the breach and weighing both sides' interests;
Protect the creditor's rights, support a reasonable liquidated-damages standard, find joint and several guarantee liability, and strengthen debt recovery;
Give equal weight to procedure and substance: enter default judgment against Zheng, clarify the adverse consequences of waiving litigation rights, and balance procedural and substantive justice.
Generated Document
Routing: Prosecuting party is a legal person → civil. All elements complete → enter Step 2-A.
Case-number Arabic year + full-width parentheses ✓
Comma after "This Court holds" ✓
Colon after "the judgment is as follows" ✓
Delayed-performance notice ✓
Litigation costs not in operative provisions ✓
Party full names consistent ✓
→ Pass; output.
Example 2: Criminal Judgment
Input
【Case-file summary】
Defendant Yang 1, from 2017 to 2023, headed a department under a certain group, publicly promoted investment projects by word of mouth, promised high returns, and illegally absorbed funds totaling over RMB 100 million. Appeared after telephone summons; family remitted RMB 2.45 million on his behalf; over RMB 800,000 more remitted during litigation. Pleaded guilty and accepted punishment. Defense counsel argued accessory, voluntary surrender, restitution, and suspended sentence.
【Results already returned by atomic skills】
Legal Core Element Extraction:
Prosecuting authority: Beijing Changping District People's Procuratorate
Defendant: Yang 1, male, no prior convictions
Charged offense: illegally absorbing public deposits
Compulsory measures: (case file does not state specific detention/arrest dates)
Procedure: summary converted to ordinary procedure; collegial panel
Court: Beijing Changping District People's Court
Case number: （2025）京0114刑初679号
Dispute Issues and Legal Relationship Identification:
Dispute issues: ① whether overlapping amounts in the case should be deducted; ② whether voluntary surrender is constituted; ③ whether a suspended sentence may apply
Evidence Efficacy Evaluation:
Defendant's confession, witness testimony, company electronic data, and two judicial appraisal opinions confirmed after courtroom presentation and cross-examination
On overlapping statistics: based on witness testimony, electronic data, and two appraisal opinions on file, this is a joint crime; distribution of proceeds does not affect the amount of illegal absorption; basis for cross-deduction is insufficient
Statutory Retrieval:
Criminal Law Art. 176, Para. 1: "Whoever illegally absorbs public deposits or does so in a disguised form, thereby disrupting the financial order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; where the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and a fine; where the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years, and a fine." Para. 3: "Where a person who commits an act under the preceding two paragraphs actively returns stolen goods or makes restitution before public prosecution is initiated, thereby reducing the harmful consequences, a lighter or mitigated punishment may be given."
Criminal Law Art. 25, Para. 1: "A joint crime means an intentional crime committed by two or more persons jointly."
Criminal Law Art. 27: "An accessory is a person who plays a secondary or auxiliary role in a joint crime. An accessory shall be given a lighter or mitigated punishment or be exempted from punishment."
Criminal Law Art. 67, Para. 3: [voluntary surrender / truthful confession provisions as in the statute]
Criminal Law Art. 52: "The amount of a fine shall be determined according to the circumstances of the crime."
Criminal Law Art. 53: [rules on payment of fines]
Criminal Law Art. 61: "When deciding the punishment of a criminal, the court shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Law, base the decision on the facts, nature, and circumstances of the crime and the degree of harm to society."
Criminal Law Art. 64: [recovery, restitution, confiscation]
Criminal Procedure Law Art. 15: "Where a criminal suspect or defendant voluntarily and truthfully confesses his crimes, admits the charged criminal facts, and is willing to accept punishment, he may be dealt with leniently in accordance with law."
Deductive Reasoning:
No rights or norm conflict; only disagreement between prosecution and defense on sentencing circumstances. Apply Criminal Law special provisions ＞ general provisions and Criminal Procedure Law sentencing rules; no priority determination needed.
Deductive Reasoning:
Amount of illegal absorption: Major premise Criminal Law Arts. 176 and 25 (joint offenders responsible for the full amount); minor premise joint crime, evidence proves absorption of over RMB 100 million, no statutory basis to deduct relatives' investments; conclusion no deduction; find over RMB 100 million (especially huge amount).
Voluntary surrender: Major premise Criminal Law Art. 67, Para. 1 (voluntary appearance + truthful confession); minor premise Yang 1, after telephone summons, did not immediately disclose the criminal facts; conclusion not voluntary surrender; subsequent truthful confession treated as confession.
Accessory: Major premise Criminal Law Art. 27 (secondary/auxiliary role); minor premise Yang 1 was a subordinate department head with a secondary role; conclusion find accessory; mitigate punishment according to law.
Suspended sentence: Major premise suspension applies to relatively light circumstances, no risk of reoffending, etc.; minor premise especially huge amount and substantial social harm; conclusion does not meet suspension conditions; not applicable.
Lenient treatment: Major premise Criminal Procedure Law Art. 15 and Criminal Law Art. 67, Para. 3 (plea and acceptance of punishment, confession, restitution may warrant leniency); minor premise Yang 1 pleaded guilty and accepted punishment, confessed, and remitted all illegal proceeds; conclusion mitigate punishment according to law.
Case Retrieval:
No need to cite Guiding Cases; adjudicate under the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law in light of the facts.
Judicial Value Judgment:
Accessory (statutory mitigation): secondary/auxiliary role in the joint crime
Truthful confession (statutory lighter punishment): confessed after appearance but not immediately; not voluntary surrender
Plea and acceptance of punishment (statutory leniency)
Restitution (discretionary lighter punishment): remitted all illegal proceeds
Suspended sentence: insufficient basis given the facts; not applicable
Overall assessment: mitigate according to law; fixed-term imprisonment of three years and two months, and a fine of RMB 120,000
Generated Document
Routing: Prosecuting authority is a people's procuratorate → criminal. All elements complete → enter Step 2-B.
When drafting each section, select and invoke as needed from the following atomic skills:
Invocation scenario
Atomic skill
No.
Typical timing
Initial case-file parsing
Legal Core Element Extraction
#4
Step 1: after receiving the case file
Terminology delimitation
Legal Concept Comprehension
#5
When subsumption is ambiguous, define concept extension
Determining dispute issues
Dispute Issues and Legal Relationship Identification
#6
Before starting facts and reasoning sections
Finding the law
Statutory Retrieval
#8
Before drafting the reasoning section
Finding similar cases
Case Retrieval
#9
When Guiding Cases must be cited
Evidence examination
Evidence Efficacy Evaluation
#12
Evidence findings in the facts section
Characterizing legal relationships
Dispute Issues and Legal Relationship Identification
#6
Confirming cause of action; characterization in reasoning
Facts and reasoning
Deductive Reasoning
#16
Issue-by-issue argumentation in reasoning
Statutory or rights conflict
Conflict Resolution and Priority Determination
#20
When statutes or rights conflict
Sentencing / discretion
Judicial Value Judgment
#22
Criminal sentencing; civil interest balancing
Skill Boundaries and Troubleshooting Guide
What this skill does not do:
Does not replace a legal research system; primarily invokes Statutory Retrieval for provisions and does not maintain a built-in statute library
Does not invent facts; relies on case-file materials and Evidence Efficacy analysis results
Does not generate non-judgment legal documents (contracts, lawyer's letters, etc. are out of scope)
Does not handle documents outside Mainland China jurisdictions
Currently supports only civil and criminal judgments
Note:
In any of the following situations, never guess a ruling; must pause drafting, invoke the corresponding atomic skill, and obtain an objective conclusion before continuing:
Plaintiff and defendant assert contradictory claims and both have supporting evidence
Key evidence's three attributes are in doubt
Characterization of the legal relationship is disputed
Conflict of application among statutes
Insufficient case-file materials → return an "information-gap list" to the user
If Statutory Retrieval returns no result → at the corresponding place in the document mark "【To be supplemented: need to retrieve legal basis related to ×××】"
If Evidence Efficacy cannot decide → state "the authenticity / legality / relevance of this evidence is in doubt" and give reasons
No judgment document title may be bolded; "This Court holds" and "the judgment is as follows" are flush left; dispute issues are phrased as "一、××× 问题" and also not bolded.
Before "the judgment is as follows" there should be a string of cited legal provisions, in the form: Accordingly, pursuant to xxx (fill in the relevant articles), the judgment is as follows:
Common errors and corrections:
Error phenomenon
Cause
Correction
Colon after "This Court holds"
Confused punctuation rules
Change to comma
Arabic numerals for operative serial numbers
Confused numeral usage
Change to Chinese (一、二、三、)
Chinese characters for case-number year
Confused numeral usage
Change to Arabic numerals
Citing article numbers without text
Omitted citation requirement
Supply full text of the provision
Missing delayed-performance notice paragraph
Omitted mandatory notice
Check whether there is a monetary award; if so, add the notice
Vague authentication of evidence in criminal documents
Authentication not concrete
Analyze and authenticate evidence one by one or by category
