Facts
X. was placed in pre-trial detention on 17 November 2004. On 23 March 2005, the Public Prosecutor's Office I of the Canton of Zurich granted him early commencement of the sentence. X. is suspected of having committed numerous offenses against property and forgery, together with various co-perpetrators, using so-called "shell companies", for which he is being investigated for commercial fraud, multiple misappropriation, and multiple mismanagement. The accused partially admits the acts. The pre-trial detention was initially justified by strong suspicion of the offense and risk of collusion. After the arrest of a suspected co-perpetrator, the special ground for detention due to risk of collusion no longer applied, and the continuation of the detention has been based since February 2005 on the existence of a risk of repetition.Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court holds that the imposition of pre-trial detention due to risk of repetition or continuation is proportionate if the risk of recidivism is very unfavorable and the offenses to be feared are of a serious nature. The purely hypothetical possibility of committing further offenses and the probability that only minor offenses will be committed, on the other hand, are not sufficient to justify preventive detention.
However, the Federal Supreme Court criticizes that the detention judge did not comprehensively examine the proportionality of the detention. In particular, he did not consider the possibility of alternative measures and…