Key legal question
Whether statements of C. and D. were unusable because the defendant was absent from the police questioning and had no confrontation.
Extracted holding
The complaint was insufficiently reasoned and, in any event, the defendant had not shown that he had timely requested confrontation in the cantonal proceedings.
Extracted reasoning
Pre-StPO police interviews remained valid under Art. 448(2) StPO; under the ECHR, confrontation rights can be waived, and the defendant cannot later complain if he failed to request confrontation in due time.