Key legal question
Whether the canton court’s sentence reasoning satisfied the duty to give reasons and the right to be heard.
Extracted holding
The motivation was insufficient because it did not show how the sentencing factors were weighed or why life imprisonment, rather than a determinate term up to 20 years, was necessary.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 50 CP requires the decisive sentencing circumstances and their weight to be stated; for life imprisonment under Art. 112 CP, particularly detailed reasons are required, especially where several offences are in concurrence and the court must explain the base sentence and any aggregation.