The role of a lawyer is to understand the case and strive for the best interests of the parties. If the facts are clear, the role that lawyers can play is very limited.
For example, dangerous drivers are caught red-handed and released on bail pending trial. Generally, there is little or no room for defense in such cases, so the role of lawyers is not great. At most, they may express an opinion of first-time offenders with a good guilty attitude in court.
In more complicated criminal cases, especially those with defective evidence collection, lawyers can often grasp the key points of defense with the help of professional knowledge in academia and practice.
But in fact, whether the case is complicated or simple, and whether there are arguments, only professionals can know. It's hard for ordinary people to understand. For example, a simple dangerous driving case may also have a great impact on the admissibility of evidence because the disinfectant used for blood drawing is alcohol or something else.
What's more, lawyers have two very important powers, that is, to meet the parties and read papers during the examination and prosecution stage. Through reading papers at meetings, we can find loopholes in the handling of cases by investigation organs and procuratorial organs and strive for the best interests of the parties. Therefore, professional matters are entrusted to professional people, or lawyers are required.
The role of lawyers in criminal cases;
Criminal cases are divided into three stages: investigation stage, prosecution stage and trial stage. In these three stages, only criminal lawyers can contact criminal suspects, except judicial organs.
The role of lawyers in the criminal field can be divided into professional and non-professional, and the non-professional role is to provide psychological counseling for the parties and their families, thus avoiding unpredictable consequences; The role of professionalism and the burden of defense lawyers are beyond the ordinary people's ability. Let's answer the question about the role of professionalism.
As we all know, 37 days after criminal detention is the period with the highest success rate of bail pending trial, and there is no arrest or acquittal, so it is also called the "golden rescue period".
In some cases with minor criminal circumstances, the best hope is actually not in the trial, but in the investigation stage. What I am most afraid of is that in order to save money, the first trial did not invite lawyers from non-professional fields, and the second trial filled the loopholes in the first trial, but killed the goose that lays the golden egg.
Entrusted by criminal suspects, defendants or their families, according to the facts and laws, put forward materials and opinions to prove that criminal suspects and defendants are innocent, light or have their criminal responsibilities reduced or exempted, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants.
Most criminal suspects sign the interrogation record made by the investigation organ without reading it or glancing at it, which is unfavorable to them at the trial stage.
The criminal suspect can't grasp the key points of the case, so that the facts of the case that are beneficial to him are not stated and recorded, and the important facts that are beneficial to him are ignored, making statements that are unfavorable to him and inconsistent with the facts.