Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

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Art. 129 Right to choose a defence lawyer

1The ac­cused is en­titled, in any crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings and at any stage of the pro­ceed­ings either to in­struct a leg­al agent as defined in Art­icle 127 para­graph 5 to con­duct his or her de­fence (right to choose a de­fence law­yer) or, sub­ject to Art­icle 130, to con­duct his or her own de­fence.

2The ac­cused ex­er­cises his or her right to choose a de­fence law­yer by ex­ecut­ing a writ­ten power of at­tor­ney or mak­ing a de­clar­a­tion on re­cord.

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