Of course, hiring a lawyer has played a certain role. After criminal detention, it enters the investigation stage of criminal proceedings. According to Article 33 of the newly revised Criminal Procedure Law, a criminal suspect has the right to entrust a defender from the day when he is interrogated for the first time by the investigation organ or takes compulsory measures. During the investigation, he can only entrust a lawyer as a defender. Article 35 A defender shall, according to facts and laws, put forward materials and opinions on the innocence, light crime or reduction or exemption of criminal responsibility of a criminal suspect or defendant, and safeguard the litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests of the criminal suspect or defendant. Article 36 In the course of investigation, defense lawyers can provide legal aid to criminal suspects, apply for changes in compulsory measures on their behalf in complaints and accusations, learn from the investigation organs about the charges charged by criminal suspects and the relevant circumstances of the case, and express their opinions. Article 37 A defense lawyer may meet and correspond with a criminal suspect or defendant in custody. Other defenders, with the permission of the people's courts and people's procuratorates, may also meet and correspond with criminal suspects and defendants in custody. Criminal cases are divided into three stages: public security investigation stage, procuratorate examination and prosecution stage and court trial stage. As long as the parties are suspected of any crime, as long as they are not convicted by the court, they cannot be called criminals and have no criminal record. Therefore, the best time to ask lawyers to intervene is the public security investigation stage, because at this stage, the public security organs are not allowed to let family members or relatives visit, and only lawyers can see the parties, so whether the parties constitute a crime and whether the parties are tortured to extract confessions can basically determine the complexity of the case and whether the parties should bear criminal responsibility. If the crime is minor, you can directly apply for bail pending trial, and you can extort a confession by torture, which is conducive to protecting the parties from personal injury. Therefore, it is recommended to hire a lawyer in the public security investigation stage for general criminal cases.
Legal basis:
Explanations of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Fraud Article 1 Whoever cheats public or private property in an amount of more than 3,000 yuan, 30,000 yuan, 100,000 yuan and 500,000 yuan shall be deemed as "large amount", "huge amount" and "especially huge amount" as stipulated in Article 266 of the Criminal Law respectively. The higher people's courts and people's procuratorates of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may, in combination with the economic and social development of the region, jointly study and determine the specific amount standards implemented in the region within the scope of the amount specified in the preceding paragraph, and report them to the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate for the record.