Offences Committed Mutually in Europe
Offences Committed Mutually in Germany
Provisions relating to offences committed mutually in the German Criminal Code [1]: This criminal issue is covered by Chapter Four, under the heading “Request to Prosecute; Authorisation to Prosecute; Request to Prosecute by a Foreign State,” located in Section 77c Offences committed mutually, which reads: If in the case of offences committed mutually which may only be prosecuted upon request one entitled person has filed a request for the prosecution of the other, the other persons right to file a request ceases if he does not exercise it before the completion of his last word in the trial proceedings at first instance. He may file a request notwithstanding that for him the period for filing it may have expired.
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- The content of the translated German penal code in relation to offences committed mutually is current as of 2010