Restoration of missed deadline for criminal revision following service of complete judgment

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH), 5th Criminal Senate, granted the defendant's motion for reinstatement to the pre-expiration status of the appeal filing deadline against a lower court judgment, ordering that the deadline for submitting the revised reasons commences upon service of this decision. The dispute concerned a procedural oversight where the defendant failed to file a revision within the statutory period following the Landgericht Bremen's judgment of September 1, 2022, which was issued as a complete judgment and effectively served. The decisive legal basis involved the assessment that because the initial judgment complied with § 267 Abs. 4 StPO requirements for a full judgment and was validly served, no return of the case files to the lower court for supplementation or re-service was necessary, relying on BGH case law regarding the start of the revision reasoning deadline (§ 331 StPO).