Pardon

Timor-Leste

Código Penal de Timor-Leste

BOOK I
GENERAL PART

TITLE VI
PRESCRIPTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

CHAPTER IV
OTHER CAUSES FOR EXTINGUISHMENT

Article 122. Pardon

Pardon extinguishes the sentence in whole or in part, or replaces it with another provided for in law more lenient to the convict.

Rome Statute

Article 17 Issues of admissibility

1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:

(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;