(1) The criminal suspect fails to hire a lawyer due to financial difficulties after being interrogated for the first time by the investigation organ or from the date when compulsory measures are taken.
(2) The victim of a public prosecution case and his legal representative or close relatives have not entrusted an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties since the date when the case was transferred for examination and prosecution.
(three) since the case of private prosecution was accepted by the people's court, the private prosecutor and his legal representative have not entrusted an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties.
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Provisions on legal aid in criminal proceedings:
If a criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender due to financial difficulties, he or her and his close relatives may apply for legal aid to the legal aid institutions affiliated to the judicial administrative organs at the same level where the public security organs, people's procuratorates and people's courts are located.
Under any of the following circumstances, if a criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender, he may apply for legal aid in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph:
1. There is evidence to prove that the criminal suspect or defendant belongs to Grade I or Grade II mental disability;
2. * * * In the same criminal case, other criminal suspects and defendants have entrusted defenders;
3. The people's procuratorate protested;
4. The case has a significant social impact.
Victims of public prosecution cases and their legal representatives or close relatives, and private prosecutors and their legal representatives of private prosecution cases, who have not entrusted agents ad litem due to financial difficulties, may apply for legal aid from legal aid institutions affiliated to judicial administrative organs at the same level where people's procuratorates and people's courts are located.
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