Resning in Swedish criminal cases
Resning is the exceptional Swedish procedure for reopening a judgment that has become final.
The Supreme Court states that finality is the starting point and that reopening therefore requires something exceptional. One route is new important circumstances or evidence that were not previously known and would probably have produced a different outcome. Chapter 58 of the Code of Judicial Procedure contains additional exceptional grounds.
For reopening in favour of a convicted person, there is no requirement to provide a valid excuse for not presenting the new material during the ordinary proceedings. The Supreme Court nevertheless emphasizes that only a very small proportion of applications are granted.
An application concerning a Court of Appeal judgment goes to the Supreme Court. An application concerning a District Court judgment goes to the Court of Appeal. The application must identify the judgment, case number, and grounds for reopening.
Resning is distinct from search-engine de-referencing. Challenging name-search indexing of criminal coverage explains why a Google or IMY request should address the necessity of current name indexing without asking the search engine to retry the conviction.