'Conspiracy' in document 'Liberia - Criminal Procedure Law'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART I
Introductory

Chapter 3. DOUBLE JEOPARDY

ยง3.3. Limitations on convictions for multiple offenses charged in a single prosecution when same conduct constitutes more than one offense.

When an act or a practice, transaction, or episode, including any act comprising a part thereof, or two or more such connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan, may establish the commission of more than one offense, the defendant may be prosecuted for each such offense in a single prosecution but he may not, however, be convicted of more than one offense if :

(b) One offense consists only of a conspiracy or other form of preparation to commit another offense ;

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