Abstract: Criminal defenses often suffer criticisms and attacks,which is a world-wide problem.But the particularity of this problem in China is that it is not or mainly not the problem of Chinese legal system that Chinese criminal defense lawyers are suffering;whereas it is the distorted knowledge about the nature and status of the lawyer profession that makes one of the critical reasons for the great increase in the cost of the system construction and the hardship in attaining to the anticipated effect.Therefore,it'...