Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹Evid­ence ob­tained in vi­ol­a­tion of Art­icle 140 is not ad­miss­ible un­der any cir­cum­stances. The fore­go­ing also ap­plies where this Code de­clares evid­ence to be in­ad­miss­ible.

²Evid­ence that crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies have ob­tained by crim­in­al meth­ods or by vi­ol­at­ing reg­u­la­tions on ad­miss­ib­il­ity is in­ad­miss­ible un­less it is es­sen­tial that it be ad­mit­ted in or­der to se­cure a con­vic­tion for a ser­i­ous of­fence.

³Evid­ence that has been ob­tained in vi­ol­a­tion of ad­min­is­trat­ive reg­u­la­tions is ad­miss­ible.

⁴Where evid­ence that is in­ad­miss­ible un­der para­graph 2 has made it pos­sible to ob­tain ad­di­tion­al evid­ence, such evid­ence is not ad­miss­ible if it would have been im­possible to ob­tain had the pre­vi­ous evid­ence not been ob­tained.

⁵Re­cords re­lat­ing to in­ad­miss­ible evid­ence shall be re­moved from the case doc­u­ments, held in safe­keep­ing un­til a fi­nal judg­ment has con­cluded the pro­ceed­ings, and then des­troyed.