Key legal question
Whether the appellate court violated the right to be heard by declining character records and criminal extracts of the injured parties
Extracted holding
No. The court could refuse evidence in anticipatory assessment because it was not decisive for the credibility-based evaluation of the statements.
Extracted reasoning
Article 29(2) BV does not require every requested item of evidence to be taken; irrelevant evidence may be refused when the court can decide without it.