Survivor's compensation: accrual date for interest on adhering plaintiff's award in criminal proceedings

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) dismissed the defense revision as unfounded, except for a modification of the financial award where the survivor's compensation of 12,000 Euros payable to the adhering plaintiff accrues interest from April 7, 2023, rather than a prior date, while simultaneously dismissing the prosecution's revision for lacking a legally erroneous benefit to the defendant, thereby upholding the lower court's conviction and sentencing. The dispute originated from a criminal trial at the Landgericht Bremen concerning the defendant's liability and the adherence of the victim's next-of-kin for survivor's compensation. The court's decisive legal basis rested on the principle that no legal error to the defendant's detriment or benefit was found upon review of the revision grounds, leading to the rejection of both appeals, with the defendant ordered to bear the costs of his revision, the specific costs of the adherence proceedings, and the necessary expenses of the co-prosecutors and adhering plaintiffs, while the public treasury covered the costs of the prosecution's unsuccessful revision.