Break sb.' s bones on the issue of dropping charges

1, you are guilty of intentional injury. The maximum penalty for intentional injury is death, and the prosecution period is 20 years. 20 years later, if it is deemed necessary to prosecute, it shall be submitted to the Supreme People's Procuratorate for approval.

2. Legal basis:

1) Criminal Law (revised by 1997) Article 87 A crime with a limitation period shall not be prosecuted after the following period:

(1) Five years have passed if the statutory maximum penalty is less than five years of fixed-term imprisonment;

(2) Ten years if the statutory maximum penalty is fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years;

(3) Fifteen years if the statutory maximum penalty is fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years;

(4) Twenty years have passed if the maximum legal punishment is life imprisonment or death penalty. 20 years later, if it is deemed necessary to prosecute, it shall be submitted to the Supreme People's Procuratorate for approval.

2) Article 234 of the Criminal Law (revised by 1997) intentionally hurts another person's body, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance.

Whoever commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph and causes serious injuries shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; Whoever causes death or serious disability by particularly cruel means shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.

So he can sue you as long as the prosecution period hasn't expired.