VI Ka 407/20
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Court partially allowed appeal by adding missing drug law article to joint sentence basis.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe appellate court partially revoked the first-instance judgment regarding the legal basis for the defendant's joint sentence. The defense argued that the original verdict failed to cite Article 4 of the Criminal Code for the combined penalty, violating procedural rules. The court agreed that the omission was a procedural error affecting the judgment's content and corrected it by adding the missing statutory provision, while upholding the rest of the ruling.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 438 ust. 2 k.p.k.; Art. 627 k.p.k. w zw. z art. 636 § 1 k.p.k.: An appellate court must correct a first-instance judgment if a missing statutory provision constitutes a procedural error capable of influencing the judgment's content.
Keywords
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procedural error
joint sentence
Criminal Code
drug trafficking
appeal on merits
legal basis omission
partial revocation
Cited Legislation
AI generatedArt. 438 ust. 2 k.p.k.
Art. 627 k.p.k.
Art. 636 § 1 k.p.k.
Art. 624 § 1 k.p.k.
Art. 634 k.p.k.
§ 1 Rozporządzenia Ministra Sprawiedliwości z dnia 18 czerwca 2003 r.
art. 438 pkt 1 k.p.k
art. 438 pkt 2 k.p.k
art. 438 pkt 3 k.p.k
art. 438 pkt 4 k.p.k
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