Key legal question
Whether the cantonal appeal court violated the prohibition of reformatio in peius by treating the defendant as organizer in count 4
Extracted holding
No violation was shown; the prohibition concerns worsening the sentence, not a stricter factual qualification or different reasoning, and the prosecutor had sought a harsher punishment.
Extracted reasoning
The ban on reformatio in peius is a matter of cantonal procedural law. A stricter characterization of the facts without worsening the sentence is not an unlawful detriment, and no arbitrariness in applying § 399 StPO/ZH was demonstrated.