Key legal question
Whether the prosecutor's 24 March 2011 filing counted as a timely appeal notice under Art. 399(1) CPC
Extracted holding
The filing was only a request for a fully reasoned judgment and did not clearly express an intention to appeal; the later appeal notice was out of time.
Extracted reasoning
Under the transitional rules the CPC applied. The prosecution could not rely on trust because it should have known the new rules. A request for reasons is not an appeal notice unless the intention to appeal is stated clearly within the deadline.