Key legal question
When may criminal proceedings be dismissed instead of sent to court for judgment?
Extracted holding
The grounds for dismissal after an investigation are applied by analogy, with restraint, also to dismissal by the investigating judge.
Extracted reasoning
The Solothurn Code of Criminal Procedure does not detail dismissal grounds; doctrine and case law allow dismissal where there is a procedural bar, an obvious lack of punishability, an exculpatory disappearance of suspicion, or an obviously insufficient suspicion that cannot be cured by further evidence.