Key legal question
Whether the appellate court violated Art. 63 StGB in sentencing for qualified cannabis trafficking and instigation to theft.
Extracted holding
No. The sentence remained within the broad discretion afforded to the sentencing court and was plausibly reasoned.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the lower court sufficiently weighed the relevant offense and offender factors: the cannabis-related nature of the drugs, sales to juveniles, operation of indoor plantations, large and prolonged trafficking activity, profit motive, lack of insight, only partial confession, and only limited proven post-offense improvement. The reduction in the proven turnover did not materially change the culpability assessment because the threshold for qualified drug trafficking was far exceeded.