Swiss Criminal Code

¹If an of­fend­er ful­fils the re­quire­ments for an in-pa­tient thera­peut­ic meas­ure in terms of Art­icles 59-61 be­fore or dur­ing the ex­e­cu­tion of a cus­todi­al sen­tence or of in­def­in­ite in­car­cer­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 64 para­graph 1, the court may or­der this meas­ure ret­ro­spect­ively.¹ The com­pet­ent court is the court that im­posed the sen­tence or ordered in­def­in­ite in­car­cer­a­tion. The ex­e­cu­tion of any re­mainder of the sen­tence is de­ferred.

²If dur­ing the ex­e­cu­tion of the cus­todi­al sen­tence, new in­form­a­tion or evid­ence comes to light to the ef­fect that the re­quire­ments for in­def­in­ite in­car­cer­a­tion are ful­filled and already ap­plied at the time of con­vic­tion al­though the court could not have had know­ledge of this, the court may or­der in­def­in­ite in­car­cer­a­tion ret­ro­spect­ively. Jur­is­dic­tion and pro­ced­ure are de­term­ined by the rules that ap­ply to re-open­ing a case.²