指定辩护探析

The Study of the Designated Defense in China

辩护权是国家赋予被告人保护自己合法权益的一种手段。指定辩护是人民法院对一些特定情况下的案件或者某些特殊被告人当他们自己没有委托辩护人时 ,而为他们指定辩护人 ,出庭辩护。我国刑事诉讼法对指定辩护的适用范围及承担指定辩护的人均做了较为详细的规定。但在司法实践中这一制度的贯彻执行仍存在一些需要解决的问题 ,在法制不断健全的进程中 。

Right to defense is a kind of method authorized to the defendant to protect his/her own legal rights by the state. Designated defense refers to the authorized defender in the court to defend for the defendant in some special cases or special defendant who hasn't any fiduciary defenders. Our national code of criminal procedure has prescribed in details the scope of application of designated defense and the designated defender. But in judicial practices, there still exist some problems to be solved when the system is being implemented. It's necessary to perfect the designated plead system in the process of the improvement judicature.