Key legal question
Whether compensation claims for economic loss and moral harm are governed by the CPP or by former Geneva procedural law.
Extracted holding
The compensation claims fall under the former cantonal procedural regime for the acts occurring before the CPP entered into force; the cantonal court was not required to apply the CPP by simplification.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 429 CPP and Art. 81 para. 4 let. b CPP, compensation claims are part of the criminal judgment. But the relevant legal regime for indemnity is generally the law in force when the procedural act occurred. Here, almost all impugned acts predated the CPP, and there was no compelling mix of old and new procedures requiring simplification.