Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the judges of the cantonal criminal chamber had to be recused because they had participated in the earlier appellate judgment later set aside.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Their earlier participation did not, by itself, create an objectively justified appearance of bias in the renewed decision on remittal.
Extrahierte Begründung
Prior participation in a vacated judgment does not automatically exclude a judge from rehearing the case. Additional circumstances suggesting that the judge has definitively closed his mind are required. Here, the earlier refusal of a supplementary psychiatric report was based on an erroneous assessment of the existing report, not on a fixed position that would make renewed consideration of preventive detention appear predetermined.