# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第三十七条の五 (Article 37-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-37-5. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 刑事訴訟法 (Code of Criminal Procedure), 昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号 - English title "Code of Criminal Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第三十七条の五 (Article 37-5) — address `art-37-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-37-5 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十七条の五 art-37-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-37-5 **第一項** 裁判官は、死刑又は無期拘禁刑に当たる事件について第三十七条の二第一項又は前条の規定により弁護人を付する場合又は付した場合において、特に必要があると認めるときは、職権で更に弁護人一人を付することができる。ただし、被疑者が釈放された場合は、この限りでない。 art-37-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-37-5/par-1 If the judge is to appoint or has appointed the defense counsel provided for in the provisions of Article 37-2, paragraph (1) or in the preceding Article with regard to a case punishable by the death penalty or imprisonment for life, when said judge deems it to be particularly necessary, said judge may appoint one more defense counsel ex officio; provided however, that this does not apply when the suspect has been released. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-37-5/par-1: 第三十七条の二第一項 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十七条の二第一項 (Article 37-2, paragraph (1)), art-37-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-37-2/par-1 - art-37-5/par-1: 前条 → 刑事訴訟法 第三十七条の四 (Article 37-4), art-37-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-37-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 刑事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-10-20 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000131/20261020_508AC0000000067), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch code-of-criminal-procedure-20261106T054114-001, translated 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06