The Federal Court has overturned a verdict for the almost fatal shots on a rock boss in Hamburg. Because of a miscalculation, the district court must again negotiate the charge of incitement to attempted murder, it says in the decision.
The competent criminal tribunal at the district court had negotiated the case for 19 days, but submitted the written reasons for the case one day late at the court office. "The legal error requires the suspension of the - very carefully justified - judgment," said the federal judge.
The 29-year-old defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment on 3 June. The Criminal Court was convinced that out of prison for revenge he had ordered the murder of the rock boss.
Probably three defendants in a new trial
In the summer of 2018, the victim was mortally wounded shortly before midnight at Millerntorplatz in the district of St. Pauli at a traffic light in his car with five shots. The car from which was shot out had driven the defendant's girlfriend. Her sentence to twelve and a half years in prison is final.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor's office has also accused the gunmen shot in Bulgaria and the father of the 29-year-old as accomplices. The father is said to have planned the act and the weapon, said a court spokesman.
Those responsible at the district court now hope for a common procedure for all three defendants. The 29-year-old is serving another term of imprisonment until 2021 for another offense.
