1. Determine the members of the collegial panel. The people's court shall form a collegial panel when trying a case of public prosecution. Determining the members of the collegiate bench mainly includes two aspects: one is to determine who will participate in the collegiate bench; The second is to determine who will be the presiding judge. Members are generally composed of judges or collegiate panels composed of judges and people's jurors, and the members of collegiate panels must be odd.
2. Send a copy of the indictment of the people's procuratorate to the defendant at the latest before the court session.
3. If it is decided that the defendant did not entrust a defender before the court session, the people's court shall inform the defendant that he can entrust a defender. If the defendant fails to entrust a defender due to family financial difficulties or other reasons, the people's court may appoint a lawyer who undertakes the obligation of legal aid to defend him. If the defendant is deaf-mute, blind or under the age of 18, or may be sentenced to death without entrusting a defender, the people's court shall appoint a lawyer who undertakes the obligation of legal aid to defend the defendant.
4. Inform the defendant and defender to provide witnesses to the people's court to testify before the court session. The identity, address and address of the witness shall be clear, and the people's court shall be provided with a list of the appraisers, witnesses and appraisers who will not testify in court, as well as copies and photos of the evidence to be read and produced in court.
5. The time and place of the court session shall be notified to the people's procuratorate that initiated the public prosecution before the court session.
6. Summon the parties, namely the victims, private prosecutors, criminal suspects, defendants, plaintiffs and defendants in incidental civil actions, and notify the defenders, agents ad litem, witnesses, experts and translators. Three days before the trial, the summons was served on the parties, and the notice was served on the defender, witness, expert witness and translator respectively, so that these people could appear in court on time, and the trial of the court went smoothly. Failure to deliver the summons and notice or failure of the above-mentioned personnel to receive the summons and notice before the court session will affect the normal conduct of the court trial.
7. The vast majority of cases tried by people's courts are heard in public, and some cases are not heard in public according to law.
Legal basis:
Article 183 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the basic people's courts and intermediate people's courts try cases of first instance, which are composed of three judges or three judges or seven people's jurors. However, a case in which a summary procedure or a summary procedure is applied in a basic people's court may be tried by a single judge. When trying a case of first instance, the Higher People's Court shall consist of three to seven judges or three to seven judges and people's jurors. When trying cases of appeal and protest, the people's court shall be composed of three or five judges. The number of members of the collegial panel shall be odd.