Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

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Art. 10 Presumption of innocence and assessment of evidence

1Every per­son is pre­sumed to be in­no­cent un­til they have been con­victed in a judg­ment that is fi­nal and leg­ally bind­ing.

2The court shall be free to in­ter­pret the evid­ence in ac­cord­ance with the views that it forms over the en­tire pro­ceed­ings.

3Where there is in­sur­mount­able doubt as to wheth­er the fac­tu­al re­quire­ments of al­leged of­fence have been ful­filled, the court shall pro­ceed on the as­sump­tion that the cir­cum­stances more fa­vour­able to the ac­cused oc­curred.

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