Key legal question
Whether the defendant's employment and family circumstances required further mitigation of the sentence under Art. 47 StGB.
Extracted holding
The circumstances were considered, but they did not amount to exceptional hardship or special sentence sensitivity requiring a lower sentence.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that occupational and family difficulties are only to be considered with restraint because they are direct consequences of imprisonment. The children were no longer small, had lived apart from the mother for two years, and were cared for by their father, so no extraordinary circumstances compelled further mitigation.