Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appeal could succeed against the finding of qualified robbery under Art. 140 Ziff. 1 i.V.m. Ziff. 4 StGB.
Decisão extraída
The challenged findings were upheld; the court accepted that the co-perpetrator created a concrete, immediate life-threatening situation and that the defendant knowingly assisted in maintaining it.
Fundamentação extraída
A life-threatening situation under Art. 140 Ziff. 4 StGB requires an acute, concrete and highly probable danger of death. On the facts found below, the use of a loaded, de-safed pistol during a struggle, including an uncontrolled shot and blows with the pistol, satisfied that threshold. The defendant did not need to be present for every act; his decisive assistance and alignment with the co-perpetrator's will sufficed for co-perpetration.