Facts
X. was convicted by the Criminal Court of Geneva for unlawful use of assets and forgery of securities to a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment with probation for 5 years, with a probation condition requiring him to repay 10,000 francs per month to Company Y. After his appeals were rejected by the SCC, X. made the required payments. However, the Criminal Chamber of the Cantonal Court of Justice of Geneva formally warned him that he must comply with this probation condition, failing which the probation granted would be revoked. X. filed a nullity appeal against this warning with the SCC.
Considerations
The SCC upheld X.'s nullity appeal against the formal warning issued against him. It considered that the contested judgment, although not a final decision terminating the criminal proceedings, constituted an incidental decision definitively settling, at the cantonal level, a question of federal law, namely the…