Lawyers have the right to defend bad guys. As a legal profession, lawyers have professional technical literacy, professional ethics and independent evaluation standards. my country's Lawyers Law clearly stipulates that a lawyer is a practitioner who is entrusted or assigned to provide legal services to clients. To this end, lawyers provide legal services to all potential clients, which naturally includes suspects and defendants involved in crimes. Lawyers must not only abide by the general ethics of ordinary legal persons, but also abide by professional ethics-the first thing is to seek the best interests of the client within the scope of the law. Therefore, the lawyer's legal system and its professional rules have specially constructed a barrier to place the client and the lawyer in the same interest category, giving priority to protecting the client's legitimate rights and interests, and determining the boundaries and benchmarks of behavior. For example, when serving the parties, there are naturally requirements for confidentiality, requirements for striving for the greatest interests as much as possible, and requirements for using all legal conditions and opportunities to compete with the prosecutors. In this sense, the lawyer is the development and self-realization of the client's personality and is "selfish" and self-interested. As a professional group, lawyers cannot refuse defense, just like prosecutors cannot refuse prosecution and judges cannot refuse trial. Even in criminal cases, lawyers must provide legal services to the so-called "bad guys" from the perspective of the general public. This is due to their professional status, just like doctors should serve patients and actors should serve roles. From a normative perspective, there are no institutional barriers to defending “bad guys.” The mechanism is as follows: First, as a suspect or defendant in a criminal case, he is presumed innocent until a fair trial. Since he is innocent, he cannot make legal or even moral judgments about good or bad. When a lawyer accepts a commission, he cannot, cannot and does not need to distinguish between the parties suspected of committing a crime to decide whether to provide defense. They only need to use their professional judgment to weigh whether it is appropriate to accept the commission. Second, even suspects with clear criminal facts cannot be equated with the so-called "bad guys" in our daily lives, because the former is a legal judgment with rigid norms, while the latter is a moral judgment that will change with the times. Change with change. Third, even if criminal suspects should be classified as "bad guys", once social concepts and even systems do not support the provision of legal services to them, some people will inevitably lose the opportunity and right to a fair trial, which may easily lead to unjust, false or wrongful convictions or improper criminalization. Responsibility occurs. However, the biggest drawback of the theory that "bad people should not be defended by lawyers" lies not in the legal system itself, but in the moral condemnation and derogation of lawyers engaged in this profession in public psychology, which makes it difficult for lawyers to practice law. Intellectually, as we all know, the law stipulates that any criminal suspect has the right to entrust a lawyer for defense. However, in terms of psychological concepts and even behavior, some people "despise" or even "dislike" this behavior, complaining and rolling their eyes in public opinion. To change this misunderstanding of social mentality, we need to understand another important issue, which is why the so-called "bad guys" have the right to defense.
Legal objectivity:
Article 33 of the Criminal Procedure Law: In addition to exercising the right to defend, criminal suspects and defendants may also entrust one or two people as defenders. The following people may be entrusted as defenders: (1) Lawyers; (2) People recommended by people's organizations or the unit where the criminal suspect or defendant works; (3) Guardians, relatives and friends of the criminal suspect or defendant. Persons who have been sentenced to a criminal penalty or deprived or restricted of personal freedom in accordance with the law may not serve as defenders.