Question juridique clé
Whether pre-trial detention and early custody from one proceeding must be credited to a sentence imposed in another proceeding even though the present case ended in acquittal.
Solution extraite
Yes. When one of several proceedings ends in conviction, detention from another proceeding must, where possible, be credited to the custodial deprivation already imposed in the prior case; the lack of identity of offense or proceeding does not preclude credit.
Motifs extraits
The court held that Swiss federal law requires freedom to be offset against already suffered freedom whenever possible. The former focus on factual and procedural identity no longer applies. It is enough that one of the related proceedings led to a conviction.