Criminal revision: Rejection of appeal and exclusion of adhesion proceedings decision from review

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected the defendant's appeal against the Berlin Regional Court's judgment of October 17, 2024, upholding the conviction and sentence in force, with the modification that the court abstained from deciding the pending adhesion proceedings. The defendant is ordered to bear the costs of the appeal, the special costs arising from the adhesion proceedings, and the necessary expenses incurred by the ancillary and adhesion claimants during the revision stage. This decision resolves a criminal revision proceeding where the challenged legal sufficiency of the lower court’s ruling was found lacking, resulting in the rejection of the defense's arguments while simultaneously terminating the procedural path for civil compensation claims within the criminal trial.