Key legal question
Whether the prosecution's cross-appeal was implicitly withdrawn when it requested confirmation at the appeal hearing.
Extracted holding
Yes. By no longer requesting a worsening of the first-instance judgment and instead seeking full confirmation, the prosecution implicitly withdrew its cross-appeal.
Extracted reasoning
A cross-appeal can lift the prohibition against reformatio in peius only if the cross-appellant still seeks an amendment of the challenged judgment. If, at the hearing, the prosecution confines itself to asking for confirmation, that request is incompatible with a cross-appeal to the defendant's detriment and must be treated as an implied withdrawal.