Practice question
All charged conduct was completed before the Rome Statute entered into force. A prosecutor invokes Article29’s absence of limitation periods as sufficient to overcome Articles11 and24. Assume no later conduct. Which is best?
- Nonprescription does not erase the Statute’s temporal-jurisdiction and nonretroactivity limits
- No limitation period creates unlimited retroactive ICC jurisdiction
- All earlier crimes are automatically tried by the ICC
- The date of conduct is always irrelevant
- A later arrest changes the original conduct date
Legal references
- Rome Statute: https://legal.un.org/icc/statute/99_corr/cstatute.htm Articles11,22–24 and29.
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