论律师刑事辩护方案的选择

选择合理、可行的辩护方案是律师搞好刑事辩护的关键。律师选择刑事辩护方案应遵循维护委托人合法权益、择优以及以事实为根据、以法律为准绳等三大基本原则。据此,律师在审查起诉阶段所应选择的辩护方案按最优到次优顺序依次是不起诉方案、轻罪起诉方案、减轻处罚起诉方案以及从轻处罚起诉方案等;在审判阶段则是无罪判决辩护方案、轻罪判决辩护方案、免除处罚辩护方案、减轻处罚辩护方案以及从轻处罚辩护方案等。

Selection of Criminal Defense Strategies

The choice of a reasonable and feasible defending strategy is the key to make good criminal defenses.When choosing a defending strategy,an attorney should abide by the following principles: safeguarding the clients' legitimate rights and interests,selecting the best strategy,judging everything by facts and taking law as the sole criterion.Accordingly,the choice for defending strategies at the trial stage ranks down from non prosecution to misdemeanor prosecution,penalty reduction and mitigation.At the sentencing stage,the optimal choice ranks down from not-guilty defense to misdemeanor defense,no-penalty defense,penalty reduction defense and mitigation defense.