Cornelius Schott
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Reason: This article about a living person seems to be used by those affected for the general settlement with the reviewer discussed. This reviewer once drew justified criticism. However, the publicly noticed case was 15 years ago. After its discussion, the article gets lost in a series of irrelevant differences of opinion that are difficult to avoid in the field of the expert in criminal law. A rather esoteric criticism is epically explained over several paragraphs, which seems to consider it fundamentally offensive that the person concerned should publish scientific articles. The specific case was also 10 years ago.
The article is consistently formulated with a constantly high level of excitement. So it is hardly noticeable that in the last paragraphs it is only about the fact that the person concerned made a mistake in a comparison of speed trap photos with vehicle owners for which he was responsible, according to the appeals chamber. That may not be nice. But it was about 160 € and not several years' imprisonment like at the beginning of the article. A look at the edits still to be viewed gives some good examples for the assumption that the German language has now suffered more damage from this affair than the other parties involved. Even the most obvious calumnies in the current article are easy to find there. These changes are just a drop in the ocean when it comes to article length. The expense of a complete overhaul does not seem to be justified by the “benefit”. If one takes into account the principle formulated in the “right to be forgotten”, this article should no longer exist. - 89.12.91.32 1:46 AM, 30 Aug 2020 (CEST) |
Cornelius Schott (* 1961 ) is a German biologist and anthropologist . He has become known to the public throughout Germany as an expert in criminal matters.
Life
After studying biology with a focus on anthropology , he received his doctorate in 1992 on the subject of "anthropological comparative reports". Since 1988 he has been working full-time as an expert for anthropological comparative reports. To this end, he runs an appraisal office in the small town of Langenselbold in Hesse . Due to a number of dubious reports, in 2001 Cornelius Schott was referred to by Focus magazine as an “expert on false judgments”.
Donald Stellwag case
The Donald Stellwag case caused a particular stir . This was due to a report prepared by Cornelius Schott for a bank robbery from December 1991 to a term of imprisonment convicted of eight years he was serving entirely. Stellwag was rehabilitated only through the confession of the real perpetrator, which he made after the festival because of another bank robbery.
Stellwag then filed for damages of 150,000 euros before the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court . The court found that the threshold of gross negligence , which is decisive for liability , had been exceeded.
Schott is accused by several injured parties of having exposed them to criminal prosecution as an innocent person through false reports and having brought about a conviction. The innocent convicted Stellwag therefore considers it scandalous that Schott is still allowed to work as an expert and that he literally still earns immense money at the expense of people who are innocent.
Case of Monika Reimann
The Bavarian television reported in the founding broadcast of its political magazine Kontrovers on October 10, 2007, under the heading "Expert in Twilight", of the controversial expert opinion of Schott. In addition to Donald Stellwag, another injured party, the former nurse Monika Reimann, had a say. In 1994 Reimann is said to have stolen a patient's check card and PIN while on night duty in a hospital in Dortmund, thereby withdrawing 14,400 marks from ATMs at several banks . Schott wanted to have recognized the woman in the photo from a surveillance camera . In his report he came to the conclusion that Reimann was "very likely" to be the perpetrator. The Dortmund District Court therefore sentenced her to one year probation in 1996. The nurse further protested her innocence and hired other experts to clarify the identity of the person in the surveillance camera. They came to the conclusion that Reimann has been shown to be practically not identical with the perpetrator. There are “serious doubts attached” to Schott's picture judgment. In August 2000, the Dortmund public prosecutor dropped the case against Reimann after an investigation that had lasted six years.
Case of Rudolf Pooch
The hotelier Rudolf Pooch from Warburg was sentenced to a fine by the Paderborn Regional Court as a result of an expert opinion by Cornelius Schott. He was accused of having withdrawn DM 4,800 from the Warburger Volksbank ATMs with a stolen EC card . Pooch kept pleading his innocence. The expert Jochen Wilske, head of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at Saarland University , commissioned by Pooch after his conviction , comes to the conclusion that the perpetrator in the surveillance photo of the ATM differs from Rudolf Pooch in a total of eight morphological features. According to Wilske, these differences allow the establishment of non-identity. Wilskes' devastating verdict on Cornelius Schott was: "He lacks scientific foundation and care" and "No serious approach".
Dortmund bank robbery
In 2001, the Dortmund Regional Court sentenced a 33-year-old who had fully confessed to twelve years in prison for a total of 15 armed bank robberies with a loot of 800,000 marks. This long series of facts could have come to an end after seven raids. Because in the seventh attack, the perpetrator was filmed by a surveillance camera and, as a result of the investigation, was targeted by the prosecutors as a suspect. Cornelius Schott then prepared the expert opinion based on the suspect's passport photo and came to the conclusion “innocent” or “not identical”.
Monopoly position as an assessor for the Bavarian Police
According to the response of the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann on December 5, 2014, to a written request from the Landtag member Katharina Schulze , Cornelius Schott was commissioned by the Bavarian Police to carry out anthropological comparative reports in around 90% of all cases between 2010 and 2013. Schott thus enjoys a virtual monopoly on the part of the Bavarian police. During this time, between 250 and 333 expert assignments from the Bavarian Police went to Cornelius Schott each year.
Rhineland-Palatinate
The central fines office for Rhineland-Palatinate in Speyer commissioned around 350 reports from Cornelius Schott in the 2017 calendar year in order to identify the driver in traffic offense proceedings based on a photo comparison. In one case, a vehicle was flashed at too high a speed on the A6 near Landstuhl . The Landstuhl District Court sentenced the vehicle owner to a fine of 160 euros and a one-month driving ban, based on a comparative report orally prepared by Schott during the main hearing . The roughly pixelated photo of the speed measurement served as a comparison photo. The Zweibrücken higher regional court overturned the district court's judgment on January 22, 2018 and criticized the report.
More errors
In the show Kontrovers on March 18, 2015, Bavarian television reported that Cornelius Schott had made mistakes in his reports in two other cases in Munich , each of which concerned the identification of a driver whose car had been flashed by a red light monitoring system.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Expert for wrong judgments ; in: Focus from August 6, 2001
- ↑ That 's it! Or? ; in: Der Spiegel 23/2001 of June 2, 2001
- ^ Judgment of the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court of October 2, 2007, Az. 19 U 8/07
- ↑ a b c d Police continue to use controversial expert ; in: Merkur-Online from March 9, 2015
- ↑ TV documentary "Innocent in prison" ; in: SWR - Südwestrundfunk from October 19, 2009
- ↑ Answer to the written question of the deputy Katharina Schulze of October 2, 2014 regarding the court expert Cornelius Schott
- ↑ a b Rhineland-Palatinate: Controversial expert in the fine office ; in: Die Rheinpfalz from June 6, 2018
- ↑ Full text of the decision of the OLG Zweibrücken of January 22, 2018, Az. 1 OWi 2 Ss Bs 92/17 ; in: Burhoff Online
- ↑ Stream of the controversial broadcast on Bavarian TV from March 18, 2015 ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); in: Mediathek des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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| SURNAME | Schott, Cornelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |