Completing Adhäsion decision by expressly stating the decision to refrain from adjudicating remaining civil claims

The Federal Court of Justice’s 6th Criminal Senate dismissed the defendant’s appeal against the regional court’s judgment of April 27, 2022, upholding the criminal conviction, while simultaneously supplementing the ancillary civil claims (Adhäsion) decision to explicitly state that no further determination was made regarding the remaining claims; the defendant is ordered to bear the costs of the appeal, the necessary expenses incurred by the auxiliary and Adhäsion claimants, and the special costs of the Adhäsion proceedings at the appellate level. The case involved a criminal trial where the defendant challenged the first-instance verdict, resulting in a procedural ruling that rejected the substantive revision but corrected the incomplete Adhäsion dispositive to formally record the court's decision to refrain from adjudicating the residual civil claims. The decisive legal basis centers on the procedural requirements for finalizing Adhäsion decisions in German criminal proceedings, ensuring that when a court chooses not to rule on all Adhäsion claims, this abstention is explicitly stated in the judgment to provide legal certainty and allow for proper cost allocation under the relevant criminal procedure codes.