The role and importance of lawyers in criminal cases;
According to China's latest criminal procedure law, what lawyers can do or their rights mainly include the right to meet, the right to correspond with criminal suspects, the right to appeal and accuse on their behalf, the right to provide legal advice to criminal suspects and their families, the right to know the basic situation of suspected crimes and cases from investigation organs, the right to investigate and collect evidence, and the right to present defense opinions.
The right of the criminal suspect to apply for the change of compulsory measures, the right to consult, extract and copy the case file, etc. Then this is the basic right given to our criminal defense lawyers by the law. While enjoying the rights, we should also realize the rights in the defense process.
Related impacts:
According to the evidence loopholes of the investigation organs, lawyers will look for confessions and excuses that are beneficial to criminal suspects and defendants, and find sentencing points that enjoy legal circumstances and discretionary circumstances when sentencing. During the hearing, the defense opinions should be analyzed and demonstrated from different aspects such as whether the facts are clear, whether the evidence is sufficient, whether the applicable law is accurate, and whether the proceedings are legal.
And put forward opinions and reasons for the conviction and sentencing of the case. Fully combine the theory of criminal law with the practice of handling cases, crush the indictment viewpoint and guilty evidence of the public prosecution agency, win the recognition of the lawyer's defense viewpoint by the judge, and obtain the criminal judgment of innocence and commutation.