Legal analysis: lawyers can be hired in the investigation stage, and criminal suspects can identify relevant criminal facts by hiring lawyers. Lawyers can play the role of communication and coordination between criminal suspects and judicial organs in advance, play a positive role in the investigation and evidence collection, review and prosecution of cases, and can also reduce the judicial judgment of criminal suspects.
Legal basis: Article 34 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). A criminal suspect has the right to entrust a defender from the day when he is interrogated for the first time by the investigation organ or takes compulsory measures. During the investigation, he can only entrust a lawyer as a defender. The defendant has the right to entrust a defender at any time.