Practice question
State A validly criminalizes conduct occurring within A. Its officers propose entering State B to arrest a suspect without B's consent or another lawful basis. Does A's territorial jurisdiction over the offense alone authorize that entry?
- Yes, because the charge is serious.
- Yes, because the suspect once visited A.
- Yes, because every domestic warrant operates worldwide.
- Yes, if officers act in plain clothes.
- No; jurisdiction over the offense does not itself authorize enforcement inside B.
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code, Article 2: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/28/20426
- UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Articles 4 and 15: https://mandates.un.org/mandate/A/RES/55/25
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