Qualification of Crime Relapse
When qualifying the crime relapse and providing the imposition of punishment which occurs sometimes with a similar combination of crimes, the conclusion arises that a crime previously committed is the crime that has been committed before another one. Indeed, the practice proceeds from that when convicting of a person for a continuing crime or continuous crime, the crime that began before and has been continuing after issuance of the judgment in another case, by which this person has been convicted but has not served a sentence, the court must be guided by Article 70 of Russian Federation Criminal Code, when assigning punishment for the second verdict. As far as for assigning punishment on cumulative verdicts, the time of completing and not the time of commencing of the crime is important, so, it cannot be otherwise in the case of qualification of crime relapse.