Lawyers have the right to defend bad people. As a legal profession, lawyers have professional technical literacy, professional ethics and independent evaluation criteria. China's "Lawyer Law" clearly stipulates that a lawyer is a practitioner who accepts entrustment or assignment and provides legal services to clients. To this end, lawyers provide legal services to all potential clients, which naturally include suspects and defendants suspected of committing crimes. Lawyers should not only abide by the general ethics of ordinary legal persons, but also abide by professional ethics-the first thing is to seek the greatest interests for the parties within the scope of the law. Therefore, the lawyer's legal system and professional rules have specially constructed a barrier, placing the client and lawyer in the same interest category, giving priority to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the client, and determining the boundaries and benchmarks of behavior. For example, serving the parties naturally requires confidentiality, striving for the greatest interests as much as possible, and using all legal conditions and opportunities to compete with the prosecution. In this sense, lawyers are the development and self-realization of clients' personality, and they are "selfish" and self-interested. As a professional group, lawyers can't refuse to defend, just as prosecutors can't refuse public prosecution and judges can't refuse trial. Even in criminal cases, lawyers must provide legal services to the so-called "bad guys" from the perspective of the general public, which is due to their professional status, just as doctors should serve patients and actors should serve roles. From a normative point of view, there is no institutional obstacle to defending the "bad guys". The mechanism is as follows: first, as a criminal suspect or defendant in a criminal case, he is presumed innocent before a fair trial. Since he is innocent, he can't make good or bad legal or even moral judgments. When accepting an entrustment, a lawyer can't, can't and don't need to distinguish between the parties suspected of committing a crime to decide whether to provide a defense. They only need to weigh whether it is appropriate to accept the entrustment according to their professional judgment. Second, even suspects with clear criminal facts cannot be equated with the so-called "bad guys" in our daily life, because the former is a rigid legal judgment and the latter is a moral judgment, which will change with the times. Third, even if criminal suspects should be classified as "bad guys", once the social concept and even the system do not support providing legal services for them, some people will inevitably lose the opportunity and right to get a fair trial, which will easily lead to unjust, false and wrong cases or improper criminal responsibility. However, the biggest drawback of the theory that "bad guys should not be defended by lawyers" lies not in the legal system itself, but in the moral condemnation and depreciation of lawyers engaged in this industry by the public psychology, which makes it difficult for lawyers to practice. Intellectually, as we all know, the law stipulates that any criminal suspect has the right to entrust a lawyer to defend, but in terms of psychological concepts and even behaviors, some people "despise" or even "hate" this behavior, voicing their opinions and rolling their eyes in public opinion. To change this misunderstanding of social mentality, we need to understand another important issue, that is, why the so-called "bad guys" should enjoy the right to defense.

Legal objectivity:

Article 33 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * A criminal suspect or defendant may entrust one or two persons as defenders in addition to exercising the right of defense by himself. The following persons may be entrusted as defenders: (1) lawyers; (2) A person recommended by a people's organization or the unit to which the criminal suspect or defendant belongs; (3) Guardians, relatives and friends of criminal suspects and defendants. A person who has been sentenced to punishment according to law or deprived of or restricted personal freedom shall not act as a defender. A person who has been dismissed from public office or has his lawyer's or notary's practice certificate revoked may not act as a defender, except the guardian or near relative of the criminal suspect or defendant.