Lawyer: Handan student murder case may become the first case to be prosecuted after the criminal age is lowered. Lawyer Yue Qishan from Beijing Yue Cheng Law Firm said that the Supreme People's Procuratorate in this case will most likely activate Paragraph 3 of Article 17 of the Criminal Law.
This provision is a new provision in the "Criminal Law Amendment (Eleven)" that will be implemented on March 1, 2021. It lowers the age of criminal responsibility and stipulates that persons who are over 12 years old and under 14 years old are guilty of intentional homicide.