Key legal question
Whether the public-law appeal was admissible despite raising issues of federal criminal law and uncured cantonal-instance grievances
Extracted holding
Grievances of federal criminal law were not cognizable in this appeal; constitutional grievances had to be properly raised and exhausted in cantonal proceedings.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Court stressed subsidiarity of the public-law appeal and the duty to exhaust cantonal remedies and to motivate constitutional complaints specifically under Art. 90(1)(b) OJ.