J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “What is the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony?”
The Chinese government is in the midst of revising and reissuing various criminal statutes. The changes are wide-ranging and impact dozens of categories of crimes, leading to a sweeping overhaul of criminal laws in the most populous country on earth. One of those categories being overhauled concerns sexual offenses and, more specifically, the definition of rape.