Questão jurídica principal
Whether the criminal conviction violated the right to confront adverse witnesses under Art. 6 EMRK and Art. 32 BV.
Decisão extraída
The court held that the appellant should have been allowed to confront the three incriminating witnesses, so the confrontation right was violated; however, this did not require quashing the judgment because the conviction remained sustainable without those statements.
Fundamentação extraída
The witnesses were available to the authorities before expulsion, so confrontation was possible. Yet the court found the remaining evidence, including the appellant's own statements and other corroborating evidence, sufficient to uphold the conviction.