Referral withdrawn before the Federal Court of Justice

BGH 2 StR 495/12, GSSt 2/15Bgh / Criminal Chamber IIAug 9, 2016Withdrawn

Extracted by Omnilex

Omnilex summary

The 2nd Criminal Senate of the Federal Court of Justice recorded that the Vorlage had been withdrawn. As a result, the Senate did not rule on the referred legal question. The order is limited to the procedural consequence of withdrawal; no substantive criminal issue was decided.

Omnilex headnote

Withdrawal of a referral to the Federal Court of Justice terminates the referral proceedings without a merits determination; the Senate has no occasion to decide the referred legal question once the referral is no longer pursued.

Full text

BGH — 2 StR 495/12, GSSt 2/15, Beschluss

Entscheidungsdatum: 2016-08-09

Aktenzeichen: 2 StR 495/12, GSSt 2/15

ECLI: ECLI:DE:BGH:2016:090816B2STR495.12.0

Dokumenttyp: Beschluss

Vorinstanz: vorgehend LG Meiningen, 30. Mai 2012, Az: 110 Js 19545/08 - 1 KLsnachgehend BGH, 2. November 2016, Az: 2 StR 495/12, Vorlagebeschlussnachgehend BGH, 25. Oktober 2017, Az: 2 StR 495/12, Urteilnachgehend BGH, 8. Mai 2017, Az: GSSt 1/17, Beschluss

Spruchkörper: 2. Strafsenat

Tenor

Die Vorlage wird zurückgenommen.

Fischer Krehl Eschelbach

Ott Zeng

Keywords

referral withdrawalcriminal procedureFederal Court of Justiceprocedural termination

Extracted by Omnilex

Key legal question

Whether the referral should be decided on the merits after withdrawal.

Extracted holding

The referral was withdrawn; therefore no further decision on the referred question was necessary.

Extracted reasoning

Once the referral is withdrawn, the Senate does not need to examine the substantive question referred to it.

Continue your research in ChatGPT or Claude

Connect Omnilex to search the legal corpus from your AI assistant.