> A judge found you guilty without hearing from you, nor summoning you > to a trial? That sounds like a ... dangerous procedure. Well, I This is a common procedure here for smaller offenses. AFAIK it is often used if people appeal to fines resulting of speed tickets and the like. > suppose you could see it as equivalent to an offer by the public > ministry to settle. Maybe. I'm not sure. The most important purpose of this procedure is that "they" don't want to hold a real trial and thus save money. It's usually just not worthwile to do the whole trial dance if the outcome is a fee of let's say 100 EUR or maybe a warning only. > > They offered me to dismiss the actual court trial according to > > paragraph 153 StPO which is not the same as an acquittal (no > > "Freispruch") which I eventually accepted. > > My German is not that fresh anymore, but it seems to say that if your > guilt is low and they don't find any interest for society at large to > prosecute you, they can choose not to prosecute. Is that what that > paragraph says? Yes, this is what the paragraph says. Unfortunately it implies that I am indeed somehow guilty. I wouldn't have accepted it if the judge and the public prosecutor hadn't made clear that otherwise they would have tried really hard to construct this aiding and abetting thing. :-( Bye, K&K, T-Zee -- |Mirko Thiesen "We're with you all the way, mostly"| |Mirko.Thiesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.kyb.mpg.de/ | |MPI for Biological Cybernetics | Phone: +49-7071-601-638| |Spemannstr. 38, D-72076 Tuebingen | FAX: +49-7071-601-616|
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