Introduction of criminal defense lawyer
Criminal defense lawyer is the abbreviation of criminal defense lawyer, which refers to a lawyer who has obtained the Lawyer's Practice Certificate of People's Republic of China (PRC) and takes criminal defense legal services as his whole business or main business, and provides criminal defense for criminal suspects and defendants. The duty of criminal defense lawyers is to accept the entrustment of criminal suspects, defendants or their families and provide evidence of criminal suspects according to facts and laws.
Materials and opinions to prove the defendant's innocence, light crime or reduce or exempt his criminal responsibility, so as to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants. Criminal defense is generally divided into three stages, namely, criminal investigation stage, criminal examination and prosecution stage, criminal trial first instance and second instance stage. In different stages of criminal proceedings, lawyers' work content is different.
The legal status of criminal defense lawyers in criminal proceedings is an independent participant and a special defender of the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants. Criminal defense lawyers share defense functions with criminal suspects and defendants.