First, is it useful to find a lawyer to defend fraud?
1. Useful;
2. After the criminal procedure enters the investigation stage, the 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, he can only entrust a lawyer as a defender. The defendant has the right to entrust a defender at any time.
3. Legal basis: Criminal Procedure Law
Article 33 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 compulsory measures are taken. During the investigation, only lawyers can be entrusted as defenders. Article 35 A defender shall, according to facts and laws, put forward materials and opinions on the innocence, light crime or reduction or exemption of criminal responsibility of a criminal suspect or defendant, and safeguard the litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests of the criminal suspect or defendant.
Article 36 A defense lawyer may provide legal aid to a criminal suspect during investigation; Acting as an agent for complaints and accusations; Apply for changing compulsory measures; Ask the investigation organ about the crimes and cases suspected by the criminal suspect, and put forward opinions.
Article 37 A defense lawyer may meet and correspond with a criminal suspect or defendant in custody. Other defenders, with the permission of the people's courts and people's procuratorates, may also meet and correspond with criminal suspects and defendants in custody.
Second, the reason for looking for a defense lawyer
1. Criminal cases are divided into three stages: public security investigation stage, procuratorate examination and prosecution stage and court trial stage.
2. As long as the parties are suspected of any crime, as long as they are not convicted by the court, they cannot be called criminals and have no criminal record. Therefore, the best time to invite lawyers to intervene is the public security investigation stage, because at this stage, the public security organs are not allowed to let family members or relatives visit, and only lawyers can see the parties, so does the parties constitute a crime? What crime? Was the client tortured? At this stage, after meeting the client, the lawyer can basically determine the complexity of the case and whether the client should bear criminal responsibility. If it is minor, you can directly apply for bail pending trial, and you can extort a confession by torture, which is conducive to protecting the parties from personal injury. Therefore, it is recommended to hire a lawyer in the public security investigation stage for general criminal cases.
The above contents are related answers. For this crime of fraud, it is certainly useful to find a lawyer in the process of some defense, because it can play a very important role in both the sampling stage of evidence and the defense stage of trial.