Can a joint crime be entrusted to the same lawyer?

Legal analysis: the current laws and regulations restrict individual lawyers from acting as defenders for two suspects of the same crime. In other words, the parties to the same crime cannot entrust the same lawyer, and all the parties to the crime are tried separately.

Legal basis: Article 38 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). A defender shall not defend two or more defendants in the same case who have not been dealt with but whose criminal facts are related.