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Article
14
of
the
Code
set
statutory
limitation
periods
of
three
,
five
or
ten
years
,
depending
on
the
length
of
the
sentence
faced
.
However
,
the
trial
court
was
given
an
unfettered
discretion
not
to
apply
the
statutory
limitation
period
in
two
sets
of
circumstances
:
namely
,
in
cases
concerning
“
counter
-
revolutionary
offences
”
and
where
the
defendant
was
accused
of
“
engaging
in
an
active
struggle
against
the
working
class
and
the
revolutionary
movement
”
as
a
senior
official
in
the
Tsarist
regime
or
during
the
Russian
Civil
War
(
1917
-
1922
)
.
In
the
first
of
these
eventualities
,
the
defendant
was
not
liable
to
the
death
penalty
if
the
statutory
limitation
period
was
not
applied
.
In
the
second
,
the
court
also
retained
a
discretion
to
pass
the
death
penalty
.
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