Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The dir­ect­or of ap­pel­late pro­ceed­ings shall take the re­quired meas­ures dir­ect­ing pro­ceed­ings and in­ter­im meas­ures that can­not be delayed. He or she 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.

² He or she shall de­cide not to con­sider the sub­stance of:

a.

clearly in­ad­miss­ible ap­pel­late rem­ed­ies;

b.

ap­pel­late rem­ed­ies that are clearly based on in­suf­fi­cient grounds;

c.

ap­pel­late rem­ed­ies that are quer­ulant or vex­a­tious.²⁶⁵