Conspiracy

Grenada

Grenada - Criminal Code 1987 (2007) EN

BOOK I
General Provisions

PART II
Rules as to Criminal Responsibility

TITLE V
Abetment and Conspiracy

48. Conspiracy

(1) If two or more persons agree to act together with a common purpose in committing or abetting a crime, whether with or without any previous concert or deliberation, each of them is guilty of conspiracy to commit or abet that crime, as the case may be.

(2) A person within the jurisdiction of the Courts can be guilty of conspiracy by agreeing with another person who is beyond the jurisdiction for the commission or abetment of any crime to be committed by them or either of them, or by any other person, either within or beyond the jurisdiction; and for the purposes of this subsection as to a crime to be committed beyond the jurisdiction, “crime” means any act which, if done within the jurisdiction, would be a crime under this Code or under any other law.

49. Punishment for conspiracy

(1) If two or more persons are guilty of conspiracy for the commission or abetment of any crime, each of them shall, in case the crime is committed, be punished as for that crime according to the provisions of this Code, or shall, in case the crime is not committed, be punished as if he or she had abetted that crime.

(2) Any Court having jurisdiction to try a person for a crime shall have jurisdiction to try a person or persons charged with conspiracy to commit or abet that crime.

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(2) Any number of persons may be charged in one indictment and tried together for a crime which they are alleged to have jointly committed, or in which they, or any of them, are alleged to have participated, directly or indirectly, by abetment or otherwise:

Provided that the Court may on application either on behalf of any of the accused persons or of the Attorney-General, at any time, order that any of such other persons shall be tried separately from all or any of the others.

Grenada - Genocide Act 1972 EN

4. Extradition and related matters

(1) There shall be deemed to be included—

(a)
in the list of extradition crimes contained in Schedule I to the Extradition Act, 1870, of England; and

(b)
among the descriptions of offences listed in the Schedule to the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1870,
the offence of genocide and (so far as not so included by virtue of either of those Acts) an attempt, a conspiracy, and a direct and public incitement, to commit genocide.

4. Extradition and related matters

(2) For the purposes of the Acts mentioned in subsection (1) and the Extradition Act, 1873, of England, no offence which, if committed in Grenada, would be punishable as an offence of genocide or as an attempt, conspiracy or incitement to commit genocide, shall be regarded as an offence of a political character, and no proceedings in respect of such an offence shall be regarded as a criminal matter of a political character.

Rome Statute

Article 25 Individual criminal responsibility

3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:

(d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:

(i) Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or

(ii) Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime;