Confession and punishment must involve lawyers.

Jurisprudence analysis: Article 33 of the Guiding Opinions on Applying the System of Confessing Guilt and Accepting Punishment in Senior High School and Senior High School talks about sentencing suggestions. For cases of confessing guilt and accepting punishment, the people's procuratorate should put forward sentencing suggestions for the principal punishment and supplementary punishment, and in sentencing suggestions, it should fully listen to the opinions of criminal suspects, defenders or lawyers on duty and reach an agreement as far as possible.

In other words, the result of sentencing suggestion should be the result of tripartite consultation among public prosecutor, criminal suspect and lawyer. Therefore, lawyers who plead guilty and admit punishment should play a consultative role in sentencing suggestion, and timely include the lighter sentence proposed by criminal suspect in their lawyer's opinions to ensure the protection of the legitimate interests of the parties.

Legal basis: "People's Republic of China and Criminal Procedure Law"

Article 173 When examining a case, the people's procuratorate shall interrogate the criminal suspect, listen to the opinions of the defender or the lawyer on duty, the victim and his agent, and make a record. If the defender or the lawyer on duty, the victim and his agent ad litem put forward written opinions, they shall attach a volume. If a criminal suspect pleads guilty and admits punishment, the people's procuratorate shall inform him of his litigation rights and the legal provisions of pleading guilty and admitting punishment, listen to the opinions of the criminal suspect, defender or duty lawyer, victim and his agent ad litem on the following matters, and record them:

(1) The facts and charges of the suspected crime and the provisions of applicable laws;

(2) suggestions on lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment and other lenient treatment.

(3) the trial procedures applicable to cases of pleading guilty and admitting punishment;

(4) Other matters requiring opinions.