In addition to exercising the right of defense, criminal suspects and defendants may also entrust one or two lawyers as defenders. If a defender is not entrusted due to financial difficulties or other reasons, I and my close relatives may apply to the legal aid institution.
Theft filing standards are as follows:
1. Whoever steals public or private property in an amount of more than 1,000 yuan and less than 3,000 yuan, more than 30,000 yuan and less than 100,000 yuan, and more than 300,000 yuan and less than 500,000 yuan shall be deemed as "large amount", "huge amount" and "huge amount" respectively according to relevant laws;
2. If theft is carried out on cross-regional public transport and the location of the theft cannot be verified, it shall be determined that the amount of theft is "large", "huge" and "especially huge" according to the relevant amount standards determined by the higher people's courts and people's procuratorates of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where the case is accepted.
To sum up, due to the low level of legal awareness of many people, they think that when they are suspected of committing a crime, they can solve and deal with it well without entrusting a lawyer. Of course, it does not rule out that you can really defend yourself, but relatively speaking, it is better to entrust a lawyer to defend. Therefore, it is actually very useful to ask a lawyer to defend the theft.
legal ground
Article 264 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
Whoever steals public or private property in a large amount, or repeatedly steals, enters a house, carries a murder weapon or pickpockets, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated.