Legal analysis: the importance of lawyers' defense opinions varies from person to person. In criminal cases, the role of defense lawyers includes finding favorable reasons according to facts and laws and persuading the case-handling organ to make a decision in favor of the parties; Supervise the case-handling departments to handle cases according to law and strive for fairness and justice for the parties. From a legal point of view, the defendant has the right to entrust a defense lawyer before the case is pronounced. If the trial procedure is not over, especially if it does not enter the court for investigation, the defense lawyer can still participate in the main link of the trial, which is the best period for lawyers to exert their professional knowledge. If the whole trial procedure has been completed, the court has clearly pronounced the sentence, and the defense lawyer is only involved in the procedure at this time, which can play a limited role.
Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law.
Article 2 The term "lawyer" as mentioned in this Law refers to a practitioner who has obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or assignment, and provided legal services to clients.
Lawyers should safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and correctly implement the law and social fairness and justice.
Article 3 Lawyers must abide by the Constitution and laws, and strictly abide by lawyers' professional ethics and practice discipline.
Lawyers' practice must be based on facts and take the law as the criterion.
Lawyers' practice should be supervised by the state, society and the parties concerned.
Lawyers' legal practice is protected by law, and no organization or individual may infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of lawyers.