Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court had to apply the new Criminal Code provisions on conditional release and probation period
Extracted holding
No. The Federal Court held that the appeal had to be assessed under the law in force when the cantonal court decided, not under the new Criminal Code that entered into force later.
Extracted reasoning
In an administrative-law appeal, federal review is limited to whether the lower authority violated federal law as then applicable; later legislative changes are generally irrelevant absent special reasons for immediate application.