Cases in which lawyers can be appointed to defend criminal cases include:
1. The criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons;
2. The criminal suspect or defendant is blind and deaf, and has not entrusted a defender;
3. The criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death penalty, without entrusting a defender.
The scope of criminal defenders:
1, lawyer. A lawyer refers to a practitioner who has obtained the qualification of lawyer according to legal procedures and provided legal services to the society after registration. Although qualified as a lawyer but not registered, he may not be entrusted by a lawyer as a defender.
2. People's organizations or personnel recommended by the unit where the criminal suspect or defendant belongs. In view of the fact that the current team of lawyers in our country can not fully meet the actual needs, in order to effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants, mass organizations such as trade unions, women's federations, the Communist Youth League Committee, and student unions, as well as the units where criminal suspects and defendants work, can recommend citizens to serve as defenders in criminal cases.
3. Guardians, relatives and friends of criminal suspects and defendants may also accept the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants to act as their defenders. In fact, the revised Criminal Procedure Law has expanded the range of options for criminal suspects and defendants to entrust defenders, because all relatives and friends except guardians can accept the entrustment of criminal suspects, defendants and their legal representatives as defenders. This is very beneficial for criminal suspects and defendants to entrust defenders in time, solve the problem of difficulty in hiring lawyers in time and effectively, and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.
legal ground
Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Thirty-sixth legal aid institutions can send lawyers on duty in people's courts, detention centers and other places. If the criminal suspect or defendant does not entrust a defender or the legal aid institution does not entrust a lawyer to defend him, the lawyer on duty will provide legal assistance to the criminal suspect or defendant, such as legal consultation, suggestions on procedure selection, application for changing compulsory measures, and suggestions on handling cases.
The people's courts, people's procuratorates and detention centers shall inform the criminal suspects and defendants that they have the right to meet the lawyers on duty, and provide convenience for the criminal suspects and defendants to meet the lawyers on duty.