Do I need a lawyer when I get to the legal department? criminal case

If you have economic conditions, you can hire a lawyer to defend the defendant and try to get a lighter or mitigated punishment.

Defense lawyers can go to the detention center to meet with the parties, understand the specific circumstances of the case, provide legal aid to the parties, apply for bail pending trial, and lodge complaints and charges on behalf of the judicial organs against acts that infringe the legitimate rights of the parties, such as extorting confessions by torture.

Defense lawyers have the right to put forward materials and opinions on the innocence, light crime or reduction or exemption of criminal responsibility of criminal suspects and defendants according to facts and laws, and safeguard the litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants.