Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal court fixed the sentence according to guilt under Art. 63 StGB or according to the desired result (conditional sentence threshold).
Decisão extraída
The sentence had to be based on culpability, not on whether a conditional sentence remained possible; the sentencing approach was impermissibly result-oriented.
Fundamentação extraída
The Federal Court found that the appellate court had repeatedly indicated a conditional sentence range and then imposed a sentence that appeared tailored to preserve that outcome. This violated the individualized guilt-based assessment required by Art. 63 StGB.