Inadmissibility of criminal revision for lack of mandatory written statement of grounds

The Federal Court of Justice (3rd Criminal Senate) dismissed the defendant's appeal as inadmissible, leaving the Landgericht Oldenburg's judgment from November 21, 2023, in force, and ordered the appellant to bear the costs of the legal remedy. The case involved a juvenile defendant convicted of two counts of aggravated bandit robbery and four counts of attempted aggravated bandit robbery, who had been sentenced to a collective juvenile prison term of one year and a two-week standing arrest, against which he filed an appeal without submitting a statement of grounds. The court ruled that the appeal was procedurally invalid under § 349 para. 1 StPO due to the failure to provide the mandatory written justification required by § 345 StPO, and explicitly denied reimbursement of expenses to the co-plaintiff, whose own unsuccessful appeal also did not qualify for cost recovery.