Instantaneous crimes are those punishable acts which, by nature, occur and end once they are committed. The series of consecutive acts shall be considered an instantaneous crime when they are committed in execution of a single criminal scheme aiming at one right without being separated by a period of time severing their connection. However, where the act is a continuous process, requiring the renewed intervention of the perpetrator for a period of time, it is, in this case, a continuous crime. The continuity of the crime's effects after committing it shall not be taken into consideration in order to decide that the crime is continuous, if such effects continue without the intervention of the perpetrator.
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