Legal analysis: the success rate of innocent defense is particularly low, even bringing adverse legal consequences to the defendant. Whether a lawyer pleads guilty or not is a question that needs careful consideration. Familiarity with the case requires lawyers to be particularly familiar with and master the whole case, and to be familiar with the occurrence, development and results of the case. Familiar with the facts and circumstances of the defendant's innocence. Only on the basis of being familiar with the case, can we further study and analyze the case in combination with jurisprudence and law and decide whether to defend the defendant's innocence. If you decide to defend the defendant's innocence, you should further analyze how to defend him. Familiarity with the case requires lawyers to carefully consult the case file and meet the defendant, but it also emphasizes that lawyers should seriously investigate and collect evidence and obtain relevant physical evidence, documentary evidence, witness testimony or expert conclusion that can prove the defendant's innocence.
Legal basis: Article 200 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). After the defendant's final statement, the presiding judge announced an adjournment and the collegial panel conducted a review. According to the ascertained facts, evidence and relevant laws and regulations, the following judgments are made respectively:
(1) If the facts of the case are clear, the evidence is true and sufficient, and the defendant is found guilty according to law, a guilty verdict shall be made;
(2) If the defendant is found innocent according to law, a verdict of innocence shall be made;
(3) If the defendant cannot be found guilty due to insufficient evidence, a verdict of acquittal shall be made because the accused crime cannot be established due to insufficient evidence.
Article 3 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) clearly stipulates that it is a crime, and it is convicted and punished according to law; If the law does not clearly stipulate that it is a criminal act, it shall not be convicted and punished.