Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

The dir­ect­or of ap­pel­late pro­ceed­ings shall take the re­quired pro­ced­ur­al and pre­lim­in­ary meas­ures that can­not be delayed. They may in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

in­struct the pub­lic pro­sec­utor to take evid­ence where this can­not be delayed;

b.

or­der de­ten­tion;

c.

ap­point a duty de­fence law­yer.