Overview
- The Heidelberg Regional Court, which delivered its verdict Wednesday, imposed suspended youth sentences ranging from two years to one year and three months.
- Judges found the teens, then 15 and 16, met the 27-year-old in Eberbach and urged him to drink large amounts of high-proof alcohol until his blood level reached about five per mille.
- The court said they saw he was too drunk to judge the risk yet continued to give him alcohol.
- After he collapsed, the group waited about four hours to call for help, and the man suffered irreversible brain damage and died three days later.
- The trial ran behind closed doors under juvenile law, the judgment is not yet final, and filings show prosecutors and defense sought probation while the victim’s side pressed for some prison terms.