Constitutional court jurisdiction over petitions for reopening criminal proceedings

The Austrian Constitutional Court dismissed the application, ruling that it lacks competence to decide on petitions for the reopening of criminal proceedings, thereby leaving the prior judicial determinations in force. The dispute concerned whether the Constitutional Court had the jurisdiction to review a request for *Wiederaufnahme* (reopening) of a concluded criminal case under its constitutional review powers. The decisive legal basis established that the scope of the Constitutional Court’s jurisdiction does not extend to supervising or altering the procedural mechanisms of lower courts regarding the reopening of criminal matters, as such petitions fall outside the bounds of constitutional complaint admissibility.