Key legal question
Whether the criminal order was validly notified so that the ten-day opposition period began to run.
Extracted holding
Yes. The Federal Court held that notification could be deemed completed when the addressee entered the authority's sphere of control and refused, without legitimate reason, to accept the document.
Extracted reasoning
Although the postal attempts to an incomplete address were invalid and the record contained an incorrect date, the decisive facts were that the appellant came to the office to consult the file, was offered the order, and refused to sign for it. On that basis, the cantonal court could, without arbitrariness, treat notification as completed.