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GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER X
SUSPENSION OF A SENTENCE AND RELEASE FROM A PENALTY
Article 78. Amnesty
1. A person who commits a criminal act may be released from serving the entire or a part of the sentence by an amnesty act passed by the Seimas.
2. The grounds for, conditions of and procedure for granting amnesty shall be laid down in the act of amnesty.
Article 17
Issues of admissibility
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;