Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)


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Art. 130 Mandatory appointment of a defence lawyer

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

a.
the peri­od on re­mand in­clud­ing the peri­od when un­der ar­rest has ex­ceeded 10 days;
b.61
the of­fence con­cerned car­ries a cus­todi­al sen­tence of more than one 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.

61 Amended by An­nex No 5 of the FA of 20 March 2015 (Im­ple­ment­a­tion of Art. 121 para. 3–6 Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion on the ex­pul­sion of for­eign na­tion­als con­victed of cer­tain crim­in­al of­fences), in force since 1 Oct. 2016 (AS 2016 2329; BBl 2013 5975).

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