Defenders only undertake the defense function in criminal proceedings and are special defenders of the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants. Defenders are generally unable to report and expose the criminal acts of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings. The defender is an independent participant in the lawsuit. The relationship between defenders and criminal suspects and defendants is different from that between agents ad litem and parties. The participation of defense lawyers in litigation is to perform their duties stipulated by law, not based on the authorization of criminal suspects and defendants.
Although in entrusted defense, the defender can only obtain the defense qualification by accepting the entrustment of the criminal suspect or defendant, after accepting the entrustment, the defender enjoys an independent litigation status in law, defends independently in his own name, according to his own grasp of the facts and understanding of the law, and is not bound by the expression of the will of the criminal suspect or defendant, and is not the "spokesperson" of the criminal suspect or defendant.