According to Article 35 of the Supreme People's Court's Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Implementation of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), Paragraph 2 of Article 317 of the Criminal Procedure Rules of the People's Procuratorate and Article 7 of the Code for Lawyers Handling Criminal Cases, a defender may not defend more than two criminal suspects and defendants in the same case.
At the same time, according to Article 83 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), public security organs and people's procuratorates shall file a case for investigation within their jurisdiction when they discover criminal facts or suspects. Conditions for filing a case: 1. There are criminal facts; 2. People who need to be investigated for criminal responsibility. The investigation organ may file a case on a case-by-case basis or on a case-by-case basis. Whether a case is filed by a person or a matter, the object of investigation is the specific criminal facts. The investigation organ usually files a case according to the specific criminal facts, and will not set up several cases because the criminal facts are committed by several criminal suspects. * * * In the same crime, if the suspect in the same case is at large, due to insufficient evidence and other reasons, the investigation organ will transfer the suspect who has the conditions for examination and prosecution to the public prosecution organ for examination, and other suspects will be handled separately. After the accomplices are arrested or further investigation and evidence collection, other criminal suspects will be transferred to the public prosecution for examination. Every lawsuit transfer is case materials, but the decision to file a case is unique. The file materials are basically the same in form and content, and the facts to be proved are the same in essence. Therefore, the case is a legal term. In criminal proceedings, the meaning of "case" should come from the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), which refers to criminal facts. The same criminal fact or the same crime, no matter how many suspects and defendants there are, is a case.
Therefore, lawyers who handle * * * cases separately with criminal suspects cannot act as defenders for more than two defendants, but can only defend one prisoner, and cannot handle * * * cases together with criminal cases. Two prisoners need to hire 1 defense lawyers.