The right of defense in Kuwaiti and comparative legislation.

In this context, the Jordanian Code of Criminal Procedure No. 9 of 1961 regulates the scope of the right to a lawyer at the stage of the preliminary investigation and before the original investigating authority, the "Public Prosecutor", and sets out the limits and controls for its use at the trial stage, as well as the Kuwaiti legislator by regulating in the Code of Criminal Procedure and Trials No. 17 of 1960, as amended, the right to a lawyer at the two stages of the investigation. Primary and trial. The criminal litigation goes through several stages, starting with the preparation for it through the stage of investigations by the police, so the suspect is in front of the arbitrariness of the judicial control authorities or what is called in Kuwait "the police force", and in Jordan "the judicial police", and if sufficient evidence is proven to accuse him, he becomes accused before an authority characterized by judicial guarantees is the Public Prosecution (Public Prosecution), and in Kuwait this authority is represented in the General Department of Investigations if the crime is a misdemeanor.