Questão jurídica principal
Whether the suspension of the Vaud criminal proceedings under Art. 314(1)(b) CPP was lawful and compatible with the principle of celerity.
Decisão extraída
The suspension was lawful because the outcome of the Valais proceedings could affect whether Z.'s threat to file a complaint was unlawful and thus whether the coercion charge could succeed.
Fundamentação extraída
A criminal case may be suspended when its outcome genuinely depends on another pending case and when waiting for that case will materially simplify the taking of evidence. The parallel Valais complaint could determine the lawfulness of Z.'s conduct; therefore the suspension did not violate the constitutional right to be judged within a reasonable time.