Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ If it is pos­sible to serve the judg­ment in ab­sen­tia per­son­ally, the per­son con­victed shall be no­ti­fied that he or she has 10 days to make a writ­ten or or­al ap­plic­a­tion to the court that is­sued the judg­ment for it to re-as­sess the case.

² In the ap­plic­a­tion, the per­son con­victed must briefly ex­plain why he or she was un­able to ap­pear at the main hear­ing.

³ The court shall re­ject the ap­plic­a­tion if the per­son con­victed was duly summoned, but failed to ap­pear at the main hear­ing without ex­cuse.