Legal analysis: What does a written statement mean? A written statement of confession and punishment is a legal document that the criminal suspect and the defendant voluntarily admit their mistakes or crimes, earnestly repent and make a new start, confess their criminal acts, and are willing to bear corresponding legal responsibilities. As a basis for lenient treatment by the court, a written statement has its existence significance.

legal basis: article 272 of the criminal procedure rules of the people's procuratorate. if a criminal suspect voluntarily pleads guilty and admits punishment, and agrees to the application of sentencing suggestions and procedures, he shall sign a statement of guilty plea and confession in the presence of a defender or a lawyer on duty. The written statement shall include the criminal suspect's truthful confession of the crime, his consent to sentencing suggestions and the application of procedures, and shall be signed by the criminal suspect, his defender and the lawyer on duty. A criminal suspect is blind, deaf or dumb, or a mental patient who has not completely lost the ability to recognize or control his own behavior; (two) the legal representative or defender of the juvenile criminal suspect has any objection to the juvenile's confession and punishment; (3) Other circumstances in which it is not necessary to sign a confession and punishment statement. In the circumstances mentioned in the preceding paragraph, if the criminal suspect fails to sign a statement of confession and punishment, it will not affect the application of the lenient system of confession and punishment.