Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal court’s assessment of the evidence and factual findings were arbitrary and violated the presumption of innocence / in dubio pro reo.
Decisão extraída
No. The conviction rested on a consistent body of indicia, and the cantonal court’s assessment was not insoutenable.
Fundamentação extraída
The Federal Court held that the appellant mainly dissected individual indicia instead of confronting the totality of the evidence. The witness testimony, the parties’ prior ambiguous relationship, the appellant’s own statements, physical evidence, and the contradictions regarding the strangulation could rationally support certainty of guilt.