Home | is lodging appeals via the Electronic Court and Administration Mailbox (Elektronisches Gerichts- und Verwaltungspostfach – EGVP) already mandatory for public prosecutors under § 32b (3) Sentence 2 of the code of criminal procedure (StPO)?

is lodging appeals via the Electronic Court and Administration Mailbox (Elektronisches Gerichts- und Verwaltungspostfach – EGVP) already mandatory for public prosecutors under § 32b (3) Sentence 2 of the code of criminal procedure (StPO)?

Are these appeals otherwise invalid (e.g. when lodged by fax) and thus usually expired?

Philipp Rhein and I have given some though to this exciting question in the new edition of Stv-Spezial.

Remarkably, the Federal Court of Justice ruled contrary to our opinion on this matter, as the argument of the inadmissibility of an appeal had been asserted in these proceedings (https://lnkd.in/eeJ5zb6C).

It will be interesting to hear the reasoning behind the judgement.