After the public prosecutor’s office, the defense of former national soccer goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has now also filed an appeal in the so-called chainsaw trial. “We also filed an appeal within the deadline and are now waiting for the written reasons for the judgment to decide what to do next,” Lehmann’s lawyer Christoph Rückel told the German Press Agency on Tuesday. This looks like another round in the proceedings, the focus of which is a bizarre neighborhood dispute.
Next, the files have to go to the Munich II Regional Court. There the case will probably be heard again in the next instance – unless both sides withdraw their appeals. The law provides a period of five weeks from the announcement of the verdict for the judgment to be canceled at the district court, explained the director of the Starnberg district court, Monika Andreß. “After the verdict has been passed, the files will be sent to the responsible Munich II regional court.”
Lehmann is accused, among other things, of using a chainsaw to saw through a roof beam in his neighbor’s garage. On December 22nd, he was sentenced by the Starnberg district court to a fine of 210 daily rates of 2,000 euros each for damage to property, insulting police officers and attempted fraud – a total of 420,000 euros.
The public prosecutor’s office, however, had demanded a suspended prison sentence of ten months – and a fine of 216,000 euros. The 54-year-old’s defense demanded an acquittal on charges of damage to property and attempted fraud and demanded a fine of 50 daily rates of less than 500 euros each for insulting police officers.