GermanyThe article discusses a court ruling by the Freiburg Regional Court regarding the admissibility of encrypted communication data obtained through European Investigative Orders (EEA) in criminal investigations. The case involved a defendant who was initially acquitted but later partially convicted due to the interpretation of chat records related to drug dealing. The court clarified that foreign-provided data for identifying previously uninvolved parties must be classified as accidental findings and evaluated under the German Criminal Procedure Code (StPO), rather than EEA rules. It emphasized that the severity of the alleged crime determines whether such data can be used as evidence. In this case, the defendant was convicted for drug trafficking involving a large quantity of cannabis, while charges of aiding the offense were dismissed due to insufficient severity.
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