Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the appeal against the refusal of legal aid had become moot after the entry into force of the Swiss Criminal Procedure Code.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. Because private prosecution proceedings were no longer provided for under the new code, both the cantonal appeal against the referral and the federal appeal against the refusal of legal aid had lost their object.
Extrahierte Begründung
Under the transitional rules, pending old private prosecution proceedings were continued under the new code, but the new code does not allow the relevant private prosecution route; therefore the challenged referral mechanism ceased to exist and the legal-aid dispute no longer had practical significance.