12348 what are the requirements for legal aid?

Legal analysis: Legal aid refers to a legal guarantee system that legal aid agencies set up by the government or lawyers of non-governmental organizations provide legal services for people with financial difficulties or special cases free of charge. The subjects who can apply for court assistance are: if a criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, he can obtain legal aid upon application. The subjects who must provide legal aid are mental patients who are blind, deaf and dumb, and have not completely lost the ability to recognize or control their own behavior. Those who may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death may provide legal aid without applying if they do not entrust a defender. Legal basis: Article 35 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). If a criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, he or his close relatives may apply to a legal aid institution. To meet the conditions of legal aid, legal aid institutions shall appoint lawyers to defend them. If the criminal suspect or defendant is a mental patient who is blind, deaf, dumb or has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, and has not entrusted a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him. If a criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death without entrusting a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him.