Die audiovisuelle Vernehmung von Auslandszeugen

Cross-border criminality requires cross-border criminal prosecution, and it is often necessary to interrogate witnesses in another country. Thanks to the German Code of Criminal Procedure, this can be done directly by video interrogation. This does however lead to new legal problems. When is the court obligated to order a video interrogation? When is it allowed to accept a record of interrogation from a foreign country? To what extent can the accused influence this by filing a motion for the admission of evidence? Which law should be applied to the interrogation? What practical arrangements have to made in doing so? Ali B. Norouzi looks into this new type of question. He shows that the new technological medium can be adapted smoothly to the structure of principles in criminal proceedings and also provides a theoretical framework for transnational evidence in German criminal proceedings.