Key legal question
Whether territorial jurisdiction should be transferred to another local court for reasons of expediency under §§ 8, 12 StPO.
Extracted holding
Jurisdiction was transferred to the Amtsgericht Eisenhüttenstadt because this was expedient in view of the defendant’s confession, her family situation, and the expected witness-free proceedings.
Extracted reasoning
The court considered the transfer appropriate to avoid the defendant, who is a mother of small children and has confessed, having to travel a long distance to Dorsten in a case likely to proceed without witnesses.