Is it useful to hire a lawyer in criminal cases? The answer is yes, criminal lawyers play a very important role in the case. In order to help you better understand the relevant legal knowledge, I will answer this question for you and show you other relevant legal knowledge, hoping to help your study and practical application. First, the role of lawyers in criminal cases is not great. It can be said with great certainty that lawyers play a very important role in criminal cases, and it is very necessary to hire professional criminal defense lawyers to help criminal suspects or defendants. In the investigation stage, lawyers can meet criminal suspects, relieve their anxiety and give them psychological comfort; Explain the accused charges and relevant legal knowledge to the criminal suspect, so that the criminal suspect can know whether he constitutes a crime or the possible consequences; Minimize the occurrence of extorting confessions by torture; It can also help criminal suspects to apply for bail pending trial according to the case. The order of review and prosecution can help us to understand the relevant cases more deeply from the review organs of the procuratorate, including consulting or copying all the files involved, and putting forward defense opinions to the procuratorate that the suspect is innocent, the crime is light, and this crime is another crime. At the trial stage, lawyers can meet the defendant to understand and collect evidence clues of misdemeanor or innocence; You can meet with the presiding judge, read and copy the file materials accusing the defendant of being guilty; Seriously study the case, fully argue in court, etc.
Second, how much does it cost to hire a lawyer in criminal cases? Fees for lawyers in criminal cases: Take Hunan Province as an example, provide legal advice, represent complaints, charges and apply for bail pending trial at the investigation stage: 1500- 10000 yuan/piece; Review and prosecution stage: 2000- 10000 yuan/piece; Preliminary stage: 3000-30000 yuan/piece. The charging standards vary slightly from place to place.
Third, the difference between a criminal case with a lawyer and a criminal case without a lawyer. If a criminal suspect or defendant has no lawyer to defend him, the case-handling organ will notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him, otherwise the legal procedure will be illegal. Article 32 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * A criminal suspect and defendant may entrust one or two persons as defenders in addition to exercising their right of defense. The following persons may be entrusted as defenders: (1) lawyers; (2) A person recommended by a people's organization or the unit to which the criminal suspect or defendant belongs; (3) Guardians, relatives and friends of criminal suspects and defendants. A person who has been sentenced to punishment according to law or deprived of or restricted personal freedom shall not act as a defender.
The above is to introduce the relevant knowledge about the role of lawyers in criminal cases in detail. Lawyers play a very important role in criminal cases.