Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court's delay in deciding the public prosecutor's appeal violated the reasonable-time guarantee
Extracted holding
Yes. Given the urgency of conditional release after two-thirds of the sentence, the announced expert timetable was incompatible with the duty of expedition.
Extracted reasoning
Article 29(1) requires a decision within a reasonable time. Although late first-instance decisions can be acceptable, the appellate authority must then act with particular speed, especially because conditional release is the rule and continued detention for the final third should not result from institutional delay.