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Total sentence formation after serial offenses: reasons for exceeding base sentence

BGH 5 StR 541/09Bgh / Criminal Chamber 528 gen 2010Annulled

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The Federal Court of Justice allowed the defendant’s revision against the total sentence. It held that the total sentence, even after being reduced by one year, still suffered from the same defect identified in the Senate’s earlier decision: the significant increase over the starting sentence was not adequately reasoned. The sentencing part of the Regional Court of Bautzen’s judgment of 29 September 2009 was therefore set aside. The case was remitted to the Regional Court of Dresden for a new decision on the total sentence and on the costs of the revision.

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§ 54 StGB; total sentence in serial-offense cases; requirement to justify a substantial increase over the base sentence. A total sentence that departs markedly from the single or base sentence must be supported by concrete sentencing reasons showing why the combined penalty corresponds to guilt and the overall criminality. If the sentencing court fails to provide sufficient reasons for the extent of the increase, the total sentence cannot stand. A merely reduced increase does not cure the defect where the underlying justification remains inadequate (cf. consid. in the sense of the earlier Senate decision).

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BGH — 5 StR 541/09, Beschluss

Entscheidungsdatum: 2010-01-28

Aktenzeichen: 5 StR 541/09

Dokumenttyp: Beschluss

Normen: § 54 StGB

Vorinstanz: vorgehend BGH, 5. August 2009, Az: 5 StR 294/09, Beschlussvorgehend LG Bautzen, 29. September 2009, Az: 250 Js 15663/07 - 1 KLs, Urteilvorgehend LG Bautzen, 29. April 2009, Az: 250 Js 15663/07 - 1 KLs, Urteil

Spruchkörper: 5. Strafsenat

Titelzeile

Gesamtstrafenbildung bei einer Serientat: Begründung der erheblichen Überschreitung der Einsatzstrafe

Tenor

Auf die Revision des Angeklagten wird das Urteil des Landgerichts Bautzen vom 29. September 2009 nach § 349 Abs. 4 StPO aufgehoben. Die Gesamtstrafe unterliegt ungeachtet der Reduzierung um ein Jahr denselben Bedenken, die dem Senatsbeschluss vom 5. August 2009 in dieser Sache zugrunde liegen.

Zu neuer Verhandlung und Entscheidung über den Gesamtstrafausspruch - sowie über die Kosten der Revision - wird die Sache nunmehr an das Landgericht Dresden zurückverwiesen.

Basdorf Raum Schaal

König Bellay

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total sentenceserial offensesentencing reasonsbase sentencerevisionremand

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Questione giuridica chiave

Whether the appeal against the total sentence should succeed because the reasons for a substantial increase over the base sentence were inadequate.

Decisione estratta

The judgment on the total sentence was set aside; the reduction by one year did not remove the same concerns identified in the earlier Senate decision.

Motivazione estratta

The sentence formation remained problematic despite the reduction, because the required justification for the significant departure from the base sentence was still lacking.

Questione giuridica chiave

Where the case should be remitted for a new decision on the total sentence and costs of the revision.

Decisione estratta

The matter was remitted to the Regional Court of Dresden for a new hearing and decision on the total sentence and revision costs.

Motivazione estratta

Because only the sentencing portion was affected, a new decision had to be made by the remitting court.

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