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The two defendants (left and 2nd from right) with defense lawyers in the courtroom at the Munich II Regional Court
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He "neither planned the crime nor made any preparations for it": In the trial of an alleged triple murder by Starnberg against two men, the defense of one of the accused demands that their client be acquitted.
"A complicity is therefore excluded, even if the public prosecutor's office wishes it so much," said his defense attorneys' pleading on Thursday before the Munich II district court.
After the violent death of a young man and his parents in January 2020, the Munich II public prosecutor had demanded thirteen and a half years in prison for the 22-year-old friend of the young man who was killed.
The prosecution also demanded thirteen and a half years in prison for the man's alleged accomplice.
His defense now spoke out for a year and nine months in prison for a robbery that the accused has admitted.
The procedure for the murder of a family in Starnberg near Munich in Upper Bavaria has been going on for almost a year and a half.
The public prosecutor assumes that the accused wanted to get their friend's guns, which he owned illegally.
The main defendant, who largely confessed, is said to have murdered the family, and the co-defendant drove him to the scene of the crime.
He is accused of being an accomplice in murder because he is said to have helped plan his friend's death.
The defense attorney's plea for the main accused is planned for next Monday.
The verdict could possibly come on the same day.
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