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Title Three
Penalties
CHAPTER ONE
Penalties in General
ARTICLE 23. Effect of pardon by the offended party.
— A pardon by the offended party does not extinguish criminal action except as provided in Article 344 of this Code ; but civil liability with regard to the interest of the injured party is extinguished by his express waiver.
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