Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0060576

Zusammenfassung

US-American and German criminal procedure differ a lot in their respective basic concepts, which leads to divergent strategies of their prosecution authorities. US prosecution agencies are broadly free to file a variety of separate charges against the defendant as long as his behavior fulfills the elements of more than one offence at the same time. This causes concern against specific forms of bringing criminal charges in US-American criminal procedure from a constitutional point of view. For example: The defendant is accused of selling drugs to another person and by this negligently c...