Stephan Lucas

Stephan Lucas is victim attorney in the NSU trial in 2013

Stephan Lucas (* 10. June 1972 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German lawyer and was cast in the Sat.1 - court show Richter Alexander Hold . He is currently on the scripted reality television show In the Name of Justice - We're Fighting For You! to see.

Career

In 1991 he graduated from the private Anna Schmidt School , the Frankfurt School . Lucas then studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main until 1996 . In 1996 and 1999 he passed his state exams and was admitted to the bar . He then initially worked in various law firms in Heidelberg and Munich .

At the beginning of 2006, he merged with the lawyer Ricarda Lang, a former defense attorney for Judge Alexander Hold , to form Lang Lucas . In July 2010, Lucas founded the criminal law firm "Lucas Rechtsanwälte" in Munich with colleagues Barbara Kaniuka and Johannes Wittmann. In recent years, as a specialist lawyer for criminal law, he has dealt with a number of media-present cases, including the Almbach murders and the Ismaning honor killing trial, in which a Turk was killed with seven headshots on the street.

From June 2006 to July 2007 he also represented Farhad A. in cooperation with his colleague Christian Vorländer in a terror aid trial at the Munich Higher Regional Court . In this, the Federal Prosecutor accused the accused, among other things, of membership in the foreign terrorist organization Ansar al Islam . It was - together with the parallel negotiation in Stuttgart - the second nationwide process under Paragraph 129 b of the Criminal Code , which criminalizes membership in a foreign terrorist group and which was included in the criminal code after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 was. The charge of membership in a terrorist organization was dropped, so that Farhad A. was sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment only for supporting a foreign terrorist organization and violating the Foreign Trade Act in three cases as well as twice agreeing to such violations.

Since November 2011, Lucas and the lawyer Jens Rabe from Waiblingen have been representing the widow of the Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback, who was murdered on April 7, 1977, as a co-plaintiff in the case at the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court against the former RAF terrorist Verena Becker . In addition, since December 2011 - again with the lawyer Jens Rabe - he has been a representative of the family of Enver Şimşek , probably the first murder victim of the “National Socialist Underground” . The florist was shot dead in Nuremberg on September 9, 2000.

Accusation of obstruction and acquittal

In 2008, Lucas himself became a suspect after representing a drug trafficker as a criminal defense lawyer . The drug dealer had been sentenced to a prison term of 8½ years by the Augsburg Regional Court without making a confession . In an appeal against this judgment operated by Lucas , the 1st Criminal Division of the Federal Court of Justice noted in its decision that it "must now also be amazed that it was confronted with untrue arguments". Lawyer Lucas had claimed in his appeal statement that the two judges at the Augsburg Regional Court, Karl-Heinz Haeusler and Johannes Ballis, had promised him a prison sentence of less than five years for his client during a conversation in the judge's room, if he had this would make a full confession. In the opinion of Stephan Lucas, this would have opened the gap, i.e. the difference between the promised and the sentence imposed, clearly too wide - a violation of the principle of fair trial. However, the two judges denied that there was such an offer.

The Augsburg public prosecutor's office thereupon brought charges against Stephan Lucas in 2010 for obstruction of punishment . In the main hearing , the judges Haeusler and Ballis then repeated as witnesses that there was no such offer in the judge's room. The charge against the drug dealer was represented by the Augsburg public prosecutor Katharina Klokocka. The astonishment was great when she stated in her testimony that, according to the session report she prepared at the time, the judges, public prosecutors and defense counsel in the judge's room had spoken about possible upper penalties and that a specific upper limit had been promised in the event of a confession be. In addition, there was a handwritten note in the report of the session of the prosecutor: "possibly also 4 years and 10 months". Despite this evidence, demanded that Attorney General , who had operated the charges against Lucas, in his plea a suspended sentence of one year and nine months and a three-year professional ban as a lawyer against Lucas. Stephan Lucas was then acquitted on April 1, 2011 by the Augsburg Regional Court . The fact that an indictment had been brought in that case led to outrage in the professional world. B. at the Association of German Defense Lawyers and the Bar Association . The allegation was made that the Augsburg public prosecutor was attempting to discipline a criminal defense attorney who was perceived as annoying in this way .

Judge Alexander Hold

In addition to his work as a lawyer , Lucas was also seen as an actor in the court show series Judge Alexander Hold , which made him known to the television audience. Since the beginning of the series in 2001 he has played the public prosecutor under his real name . Next to Sewarion Kirkitadze and Alexander Hold, Lucas is the only lawyer who has starred in this TV series from the start. Together with Ricarda Lang, Lucas appeared in the first episode of Judge Alexander Hold , entitled Baby in the Locker . After hiring Judge Alexander Hold, Lucas was initially on the test run of the scripted reality show In the Name of Justice - We're Fighting for You! seen as a lawyer in May 2013. It has been an integral part of this program since the end of September 2013.

further activities

In 2007 and 2008, Lucas also worked as a legal expert for the Sat.1 program "AllesTester".

On June 1, 2012, Lucas' first book was published by Droemer-Knaur-Verlag with the title "On the side of evil - my most spectacular cases as a criminal defense attorney". Stephan Lucas published the book "Guaranteed not punishable" on March 1, 2017, which he wrote together with the German criminal defense attorney and author Alexander Stevens .

Others

Stephan Lucas married a Ukrainian in 2007 at Gut Renkhausen in Lübbecke, East Westphalia , who had moved to Germany at the age of eleven. The couple have a daughter.

Publications

On the side of evil , Knaur , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-78542-3
(together with Alexander Stevens ): Guaranteed not punishable , Knaur, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-78899-8