Germany

Criminal Procedure Code (Strafprozeßordnung, StPO)

PART TWO
PROCEEDINGS AT FIRST INSTANCE

CHAPTER VI
MAIN HEARING

Section 231b
[Absence Because of Disorderly Conduct].

(1) If the defendant is removed from the courtroom or committed to prison because of disorderly conduct (section 177 of the Courts Constitution Act), the hearing may be conducted in his absence if the court does not consider his further presence to be indispensable and as long as it is to be feared that the defendant’s presence would be seriously detrimental to the progress of the main hearing. In any event, the defendant shall be given the opportunity to make a statement on the charges .

Keywords

Trials in absentia
Disruption of trial - removal of the accused



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