Key legal question
Whether the new Criminal Code provisions on partial suspension applied to the case under transitional law.
Extracted holding
Yes. Because the cantonal court ruled after 1 January 2007, it had to examine whether the new law was more favorable; for a three-year prison term, the new law was more favorable because it allows partial suspension.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 2 CP, the court must compare the concrete result under old and new law. The new part-general provisions introduced partial suspension for sentences of one to three years, which the old law did not permit.