Criminal revision: rejection of appeal for lack of legal error and supplementation of sentencing formula for 1:1 credit of surrender custody

The German Federal Court of Criminal Court (BGH) dismissed the defendants' appeals against the Landgericht Koblenz’s conviction as unfounded, upholding the lower court's judgment, while ordering a specific correction to the sentencing formula for one defendant to credit time served in surrender custody at a 1:1 ratio toward the final sentence. The case involved a criminal prosecution where the defendants challenged the original judgment on appeal, arguing that legal errors to their detriment existed. The Court determined that the appellate review based on the appellants’ justifications revealed no such legal errors, thus affirming the substantive outcome of the trial; however, it identified a technical deficiency in the judgment’s formula regarding the calculation of custody credit, which it rectified by mandating the explicit inclusion of the 1:1 custody credit in the final decree.