Must a criminal suspect entrust a lawyer as a family member?

Legal subjectivity:

1. Provide legal advice to criminal suspects. 2. Apply for bail pending trial for the criminal suspect. 3. Issue legal opinions to relevant case-handling units, clarify legal opinions, and provide legal assistance to criminal suspects. 4. Acting as a criminal suspect to lodge a complaint. 5. Understand the facts of the suspect's suspected case. 6. The lawyer's duty is to put forward materials and opinions to prove the innocence, lightness or reduction or exemption of criminal responsibility of criminal suspects and defendants according to facts and laws, and to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects.

Legal objectivity:

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, only lawyers can be entrusted as defenders. The defendant has the right to entrust a defender at any time. When interrogating a criminal suspect for the first time or taking compulsory measures against him, the investigation organ shall inform him that he has the right to entrust a defender. The people's procuratorate shall, within three days from the date of receiving the case materials transferred for examination and prosecution, inform the criminal suspect that he has the right to entrust a defender. The people's court shall, within three days from the date of accepting the case, inform the defendant of the right to entrust a defender. If a criminal suspect or defendant requests to entrust a defender while in custody, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall promptly convey it. If a criminal suspect or defendant is in custody, his guardian or near relative may also entrust a defender. After accepting the entrustment of a criminal suspect or defendant, the defender shall promptly inform the case-handling organ.