'Continuous criminal offences' 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 :

(e) The offense is defined as a continuing course of conduct and the defendant's course of conduct was uninterrupted, unless the Legislature has provided that specific periods of such conduct constitutes separate offenses.