Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

A de­fence law­yer must be ap­poin­ted to rep­res­ent the ac­cused if:

a.

the peri­od on re­mand in­clud­ing the peri­od when un­der ar­rest has con­tin­ued for more than 10 days;

b.¹

the of­fence con­cerned car­ries a cus­todi­al sen­tence of more than a year or a cus­todi­al meas­ure or may res­ult in ex­pul­sion from Switzer­land;

c.

the ac­cused is un­able to safe­guard his or her in­terests in the pro­ceed­ings ad­equately due to his or her phys­ic­al or men­tal con­di­tion or for oth­er reas­ons, and his or her stat­utory rep­res­ent­at­ive is un­able to do so either;

d.

the pro­sec­ut­ing law­yer is ap­pear­ing in per­son be­fore the court of first in­stance or the court of ap­peal;

e.

ac­cel­er­ated pro­ceed­ings (Art. 358-362) are be­ing con­duc­ted.