Legal analysis: Legal aid can be applied for in criminal cases under the following circumstances: 1. The criminal suspect did not hire a lawyer due to financial difficulties after the first interrogation by the investigative agency or from the date when compulsory measures were taken. 2. The victim of a public prosecution case, his legal representative, and close relatives have not retained an agent ad litem due to financial difficulties since the date the case was transferred for review and prosecution. Third, private prosecution cases and their legal representatives have failed to entrust a litigation agent due to financial difficulties since the day the People's Court accepted the case. In a case where the public prosecutor appears in court for public prosecution and the defendant does not retain a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, and the people's court appoints a defender for the defendant, the legal aid institution shall provide legal aid
5. If the defendant is a minor case. If the defendant is blind, deaf, mute or a minor and has not appointed a defender, or the defendant may be sentenced to death and has not appointed a defender, the people's court shall designate legal aid for the defendant, and there is no need to assess the defendant's financial status. assessment, nor the need to provide legal aid to the defendant.
Legal basis: "Article 35 of the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China and the State" If a criminal suspect or defendant does not retain a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, he may file a complaint with a legal aid agency , if the criminal suspect or defendant meets the conditions for legal aid, he or she shall appoint a lawyer to provide defense. People's courts and people's legal aid institutions should assign lawyers to provide defense.