Stock Photo - 20 January 2021, North Rhine-Westphalia, Dortmund: Presiding judge Thomas Kelm (r) stands in the regional court between Plexiglas panes to protect against infection while the defendant (2nd from left) turns away between his lawyers. In the fall of 1993, a 16-year-old schoolgirl was strangled in Dortmund. The defendant was arrested in the summer of 2018. He is incriminated by DNA traces, but denies the crime. Because the proceedings were not resumed promptly, the defendant was released from custody in July despite urgent suspicion of murder. Photo: Bernd Thissen/dpa - ATTENTION: Person(s) have been pixelated for legal reasons. - Dortmund/North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany