Tokens: The
retrospective
conversion
of
a
time
-
limited
punitive
security
measure
into
a
potentially
life
-
long
pseudo
-
medical
confinement
measure
imposed
on
convicted
offenders
with
ex
nunc
established
“
mental
disorders
”
is
an
historically
and
dogmatically
unreasonable
,
let
us
say
it
,
abusive
interpretation
that
not
only
goes
beyond
the
nature
and
purpose
of
the
measure
of
preventive
detention
,
but
circumvents
the
prohibition
of
nulla
poena
sine
lege
praevia
guaranteed
in
a
State
governed
by
the
rule
of
law
.
By
putting
its
uncontested
moral
authority
behind
the
political
choice
made
by
the
legislator
in
the
“
Act
on
Therapy
and
Detention
of
Mentally
Disturbed
Violent
Offenders”,[332
]
the
Constitutional
Court
acted
as
a
facilitator
of
the
political
majority,[333
]
not
as
a
guarantor
of
the
fundamental
rights
of
the
Basic
Law
read
in
a
public
-
international
-
law
-
friendly
manner.[334
]
By
acquiescing
to
a
strategy
of
apparent
compliance
with
the
Convention
guarantees
,
while
in
substance
departing
from
the
core
message
of
the
Court
that
Sicherungsverwahrte
have
a
Convention
guarantee
to
nulla
poena
sine
lege
praevia
,
the
Karlsruhe
court
chose
to
align
itself
schematically
with
Berlin
,
and
not
with
Strasbourg
.
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