Criminal revision review: sufficiency of grounds to establish legal error affecting sentencing duration

The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected the appeals of two defendants as unfounded, upholding the judgment of the Cologne Regional Court dated May 25, 2021, and ordering each defendant to bear the costs of their respective legal proceedings, while crediting one month of the individual youth sentence for one defendant and one month of the custodial sentence for the other defendant toward the duration of the appeal proceedings. The dispute concerned a criminal matter where the defendants challenged the lower court’s conviction and sentencing. The court found no legal error to the detriment of the defendants upon review of the appeal grounds, thereby affirming the prior instance's findings and penalties.