Key legal question
Whether the president of the cantonal appellate criminal chamber had to be recused because he ruled on the merits and later on detention.
Extracted holding
No recusal was required because the merits issue and the detention issue were sufficiently distinct; the first concerned revocation of conditional release and sentence length, while the second concerned flight risk.
Extracted reasoning
Swiss law allows the same appellate judge to decide detention and the merits in principle; a recusal case depends on the concrete circumstances. Here the risk of reoffending assessed on appeal was not the basis of the detention order, which relied on flight risk only.