'Common purpose' in document 'Georgia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

SECTION TWO. CRIMES

CHAPTER VII. PERPETRATION AND COMPLICITY

Article 27. Crime by Group
1. A group shall commit the crime if two or more perpetrators were engaged in its perpetration without previous consent.
2. A group with shall commit the crime aforethought if the participants therein previously came in cahoots to commit the crime.
3. An organized group shall commit the crime if it was perpetrated by a rigid group of persons who previously came in cahoots to perpetrate several crimes.
4. In case prescribed by the relevant article of this Code, criminal liability for the formation or leading of the organized group shall be imposed upon the one who formed or supervised such group. Such person shall liable for all the offenses if they were part of his/her intention. Other participant of the organized group shall be liable as provided by the relevant article of this code as well as for the crime in the staging or perpetration of which such person participated.

GENERAL PART

SECTION TWO. CRIME

CHAPTER VII. PERPETRATION AND COMPLICITY

Article 27. Crime by Group
1. A group shall commit the crime if two or more perpetrators were engaged in its perpetration without previous consent.
2. A group with shall commit the crime aforethought if the participants therein previously came in cahoots to commit the crime.
3. An organized group shall commit the crime if it was perpetrated by a rigid group of persons who previously came in cahoots to perpetrate several crimes.
4. In case prescribed by the relevant article of this Code, criminal liability for the formation or leading of the organized group shall be imposed upon the one who formed or supervised such group. Such person shall liable for all the offenses if they were part of his/her intention. Other participant of the organized group shall be liable as provided by the relevant article of this code as well as for the crime in the staging or perpetration of which such person participated.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:
(i) Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(ii) Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime