1. Criminal proceedings are different from civil proceedings. If the parties do not entrust a lawyer to defend, their own interests may not be guaranteed. Therefore, if you are suspected of theft, it is recommended to entrust a lawyer to help you.
2. The plot and details of a criminal case are very important. Can decide whether the parties are guilty, innocent, charged, light, heavy or sentenced. Therefore, when the case is too rough, it is difficult to judge the outcome of future trials. A lawyer must read this book when defending and study the whole process of the case.
3. Specific to the case, is it theft? If it has been identified as theft, then the problem of "crime" and "non-crime" does not exist. Whether to hire a lawyer can be decided according to one's own economic conditions. If you still have questions about the procedure and the severity of sentencing, please ask a lawyer to defend you. Otherwise, if the facts are clear, the evidence is conclusive and the procedure is legal, then it is ok not to hire a lawyer. Whether you need to hire a lawyer depends on the specific circumstances of the case and the parties themselves. In criminal proceedings, the defender's duty is to put forward evidence and opinions to prove the innocence, light crime or reduction or exemption of criminal responsibility of criminal suspects and defendants according to facts and laws, and to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. Therefore, if the parties have doubts about legal procedures and evidence, or need legal aid, they can consult professional lawyers to obtain better legal services.
Theft refers to the act of stealing a large amount of property occupied by others for the purpose of illegal possession, or stealing it many times. This is the oldest crime against property. The public security organ shall accept, register and seriously investigate and deal with theft cases that have been reported to the police, regardless of the amount of stolen property. Among them, those who reach the local standard of the amount of theft crimes are classified as criminal cases; Breaking houses, breaking windows, pickpocketing, using tools such as blades or carrying weapons to break into houses, regardless of the amount of stolen property, shall be treated as criminal cases; Obviously, it is a recidivist crime or one person commits crimes many times, and the circumstances or consequences are serious, and other cases do not meet the prescribed amount standard, which is also a criminal case; The rest are investigated as public security cases, and if they are found to constitute criminal cases through work, they shall be established as criminal cases in time.
To sum up, the differences between theft and embezzlement include different criminal objects, different objective aspects of crime, and different intentional contents and time of crime. In order to distinguish these two crimes, we should not confuse them.
Legal basis:
Criminal law of the people's Republic of China
Article 264
Whoever steals public or private property in a large amount, or repeatedly steals, enters a house, carries a murder weapon or pickpockets, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated.