Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the Ticino appellate court had competence under transitional criminal procedure rules to decide the pending cassation appeal after 1 January 2011.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. Transitional cantonal law validly assigned pending cassation appeals to the Corte di appello e di revisione penale, which applied the former procedural law.
Extrahierte Begründung
Art. 453 CPP required pre-CPP appeals to be judged under prior law by the competent authorities under that law; Ticino's transitional legislation expressly transferred such cassation appeals to the CARP.