The defense lawyer has the right to protect the defendant.

Legal subjectivity:

According to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law and the Lawyers Law, the rights of defenders in China mainly include: 1. Defenders have the right to defend independently according to facts and laws. Defenders defend independently according to their own facts and understanding of the law, and any other organ, including the people's court, the people's procuratorate, or any group or individual, has no right to interfere. 2. The right to meet and communicate. According to the provisions of Article 36 of the Criminal Procedure Law, defense lawyers can consult the case from the date of examination and prosecution by the people's procuratorate.

Legal objectivity:

Criminal Procedure Law Article 173 When examining a case, the people's procuratorate shall interrogate the criminal suspect, listen to the opinions of the defender or the lawyer on duty, the victim and his agent ad litem, and record them. If the defender or the lawyer on duty, the victim and his agent ad litem put forward written opinions, they shall attach a volume. If a criminal suspect pleads guilty and admits punishment, the people's procuratorate shall inform him of his litigation rights and the legal provisions of pleading guilty and admitting punishment, listen to the opinions of the criminal suspect, defender or lawyer on duty, victim and his agent ad litem on the following matters, and record them: (1) Suspected criminal facts, charges and applicable legal provisions; (2) Suggestions on a lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment; (3) Procedures applicable to the trial of cases after pleading guilty and admitting punishment; (four) other matters that need to listen to opinions.