Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The court of first in­stance as­sesses, as the first in­stance, all of­fences that do not fall with­in the jur­is­dic­tion of oth­er au­thor­it­ies.

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons may provide that the court of first in­stance com­prise one judge sit­ting alone to as­sess:

a.

con­tra­ven­tions;

b.

felon­ies and mis­de­mean­ours, with ex­cep­tion of those for which the pub­lic pro­sec­utor de­mands a cus­todi­al sen­tence of more than two years, in­def­in­ite in­car­cer­a­tion in terms of Art­icle 64 SCC⁴, treat­ment in terms of Art­icle 59 para­graph 3 SCC or, in the case of sus­pen­ded sanc­tions to be re­voked sim­ul­tan­eously, a depriva­tion of liberty of more than two years.