Criminal appeal scope and admissibility of reviewing adhesion and compensation orders as excluded legal consequences under § 55 Abs. 2 StGB

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) dismissed the defendant's appeal, upholding the lower court's conviction and imposing the costs of the appeal on the defendant. The case involved a criminal appeal against a judgment by the Regional Court of Halle, with the appellate court further clarifying that the procedural decision to maintain the victim's adhesion and compensation claims was unnecessary because such civil law consequences are not classified as legal consequences under the relevant statutory provision on sentencing. The decisive legal basis cited for this procedural remark is Section 55(2) of the German Criminal Code (StGB), which defines the specific scope of legal consequences subject to appeal in this context.