A criminal defender generally refers to a person who helps criminal suspects and defendants to exercise their right of defense in order to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. The criminal defender can be a lawyer; Persons recommended by people's organizations or units; Or guardians, relatives and friends of criminal suspects or defendants.
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Related knowledge of criminal defenders. I. Concept and Scope of Defender A defender is a litigation participant who is entrusted or appointed to participate in litigation according to law to defend criminal suspects and defendants. A defender may be a lawyer, a relative or guardian of the defendant, or a person recommended by a people's organization or the unit to which the criminal suspect or defendant belongs. Article 38 of the Criminal Procedure Law stipulates: "Defense lawyers and other defenders shall not help criminal suspects and defendants to conceal, destroy, forge evidence or collude with confessions, and shall not threaten or induce witnesses to change their testimony or commit perjury or engage in other acts that hinder judicial procedures." Defenders who violate the above obligations shall be investigated for their responsibilities according to law. Article 306 of China's Criminal Law stipulates: "In criminal proceedings, defenders and agents ad litem who destroy or falsify evidence, help the parties to destroy or falsify evidence, threaten or induce witnesses to change their testimony or commit perjury shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years. " Second, the rights of defenders ① The right to accept entrustment as a defender. ② check