Questão jurídica principal
Whether the defendant’s revision request had to be granted on the basis of alleged new facts or evidence, namely the daughter’s recantation letters.
Decisão extraída
The recantation letters did not make a different outcome sufficiently probable; the revision request was therefore properly denied.
Fundamentação extraída
The lower court applied the correct notion of novelty and materiality under Art. 397 StGB. It was entitled to assess, within reviewable limits, whether the new material was capable of undermining the original factual basis. The Federal Court held that this evaluation did not violate federal law.