At trial in Kassel: jury is asleep - verdict collected after 16 days of negotiations

The verdict is not valid: because a lay judge fell asleep in a court case, a case has to be reopened.

• A

  lay

  judge fell

  asleep

  in the middle of a

  court case

  in

  Kassel

  .

• The

  judgment made

  is

  now invalid

  because of the incident at the

  Kassel court

  .

• The

  process

  must now be rolled out again.

Kassel - The

has overturned a judgment of the

against an official of the

tax office

.

The reason: a

slept

during a

.

The man slept - for a considerable length of time - while the

was

read out in

.

Now the case has to be reopened - by a different Chamber of Commerce than the one that had given a total imprisonment of four years for tax evasion and corruption in 2019.

Trial at the Kassel court: jury fell asleep during the trial

The case had generated interest a year ago.

At the

of the

public prosecutor Fabian Ruhnau and a colleague

presented 217 cases

against

the 50-year-old

at the

court

.

That dragged on.

When an hour had passed after the break, lawyer Dr.

Sven Schoeller, the defender of the tax officer, the

and turned to the presiding judge.

He should see if one of the two

still awake.

Our newspaper wrote at the time: “Indeed: The older man nodded away briefly.

The

obviously had a drowsy

effect on him

. "

Alderman slept during the trial in Kassel: the court is reopening the case

The lay

nap in

front of the

enough for a successful

- with the

in this mere examination of legal errors also pointed to further

.

In his decision, however, he primarily deals with the conduct of the lay judge at the

in

.

That he slept has been proven after an overall assessment of the circumstances.

The statements of the defense counsel and the confirmation of the

served as the basis

The problem: the presiding judge at the

replied that the

judge

was awake.

In doing so, he would

simply

have had to have individual passages of the

read out again.

Since he didn't, everything starts all over again.

In 2019, it took 16 days to reach a

.

It is 405 pages long and was even bound as a book.

Alone: ​​It is not valid.

Schöffe slept through the process at the Kassel court - the process is "very annoying"

Dr.

Christian Sprengmann, spokesman for the

, described the process during the

as “very annoying”.

For Sven Schoeller, the case is an occasion to draw attention to the fact that the

requires a

before the

: “People who sleep while reading the indictment but are wide awake when humming up heavy sentences have nothing in the office lost. “(Florian Hagemann)