Lawyers are involved in the investigation stage and provide assistance to criminal suspects. They can provide the following assistance to criminal suspects: 1. Lawyers can meet with criminal suspects, inform their families of their concerns, ease the anxiety of criminal suspects and give psychological comfort. At the beginning of restricting personal freedom, many people's living environment, social status and psychological pressure suddenly changed, which many people could not bear. Things that should not have happened under poverty. 2. When a lawyer meets a criminal suspect, he can explain the accused charges and relevant legal knowledge to the criminal suspect. Let the suspect have a clear understanding of the difficulties he faces and know what to do and what not to do. 3. When a lawyer meets a criminal suspect, he can learn from the criminal suspect whether he is innocent or guilty, and help to do some work of fixing strong evidence to prepare for a successful defense in the future. Evidence is in danger of being lost at any time, and a temporary negligence may lead to never obtaining favorable evidence. 4. Lawyers can avoid extorting confessions by torture to the greatest extent when meeting with criminal suspects. Although the legal environment in our country is improving day by day, the phenomenon of extorting confessions by torture still occurs from time to time, and even the tragedy of extorting confessions by torture and maiming to death appears. If extorting a confession by torture, lawyers can lodge complaints and accusations on behalf of the criminal suspect, thus effectively reducing the occurrence of this situation. By meeting with the criminal suspect, the lawyer can help the criminal suspect correctly understand his behavior, so as to get the opportunity to make meritorious service and reduce the punishment. 6. In the investigation stage, lawyers can help criminal suspects to apply for bail pending trial according to the case, thus solving the crisis well. 7. With the revision of the Criminal Procedure Law, lawyers will also increase on-site work to better protect the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects. From the first time the judicial organs take compulsory measures against criminal suspects, they can entrust defenders. At this time, lawyers can act as defenders, but people who are not lawyers can also act as defenders of criminal cases if they meet the conditions. Entrusting a lawyer as a defender in the investigation stage can provide great help to the criminal suspect, such as meeting the criminal suspect and helping to apply for bail pending trial.
Legal objectivity:
According to Article 33 of China's Criminal Procedure Law: "A criminal suspect has the right to entrust a defender from the date when the case is transferred for review." In other words, in the stage of examination and prosecution, lawyers began to appear as "defenders". At this stage, except for criminal suspects who are under surveillance, the Criminal Procedure Law does not restrict defense lawyers from meeting criminal suspects. As long as he is a defense lawyer, he has the right to meet the criminal suspect in custody, without the approval of the procuratorial organ, and the procuratorial organ should not send personnel to meet at the scene. As for the content of the interview, as long as it is necessary to perform defense duties according to law, you can talk about it without restrictions. In addition, you can communicate with criminal suspects, and the content they communicate should not be checked and arbitrarily detained. In the stage of examination and prosecution, the defense lawyer meets the criminal suspect in the following aspects: (1) Asking the facts of the case and listening to the statement and defense of the criminal suspect. If the facts stated by the criminal suspect are different from those stated in the public prosecution opinion, the defense lawyer should ask clearly, even if there are differences in details. (2) Check the materials and opinions that prove the criminal suspect's innocence, light crime or reduced or exempted from criminal responsibility, and ask the criminal suspect whether there are new witnesses, physical evidence and evidence clues. (3) Inform them of their litigation rights and obligations at the stage of examination and prosecution. For example, when the case-handling personnel of the procuratorate interrogate him, he has the right to apply for withdrawal, the right to defense, the right to request re-appraisal, and the right to appeal against the prosecution decision. (4) ask about the case. Ask about the duration of his detention, whether the case-handling personnel have carried out illegal acts such as extorting a confession by torture and detaining him in disguised form, and whether they have seized or frozen property with the case. According to the contents of the above-mentioned meeting, defense lawyers can put forward defense opinions to the people's procuratorate to prove the criminal suspect's innocence, light crime or reduce his criminal responsibility. If criminal responsibility should not be investigated, or if the evidence is insufficient and does not meet the conditions for prosecution, or if the circumstances of the crime are minor, it is not necessary to sentence or be exempted from punishment according to the provisions of the Criminal Law, it should be suggested that the People's Procuratorate make a decision not to prosecute. If the criminal suspect refuses to accept the decision to plead guilty and repent, the defense lawyer may appeal to the people's procuratorate on his behalf; If the case has sealed up or frozen property, it may request the people's procuratorate to terminate it after making a decision not to prosecute. If the detention period has exceeded the time limit prescribed by law, he may request the cancellation or change of compulsory measures on behalf of the criminal suspect; If the case-handling personnel commit illegal acts such as extorting confessions by torture or detaining them in disguised form, they may prosecute on their behalf.