In doing this, appropriate state and federal prosecutorial officers are required to make a conscious separation of activities of any given church into at least two activities which would be "religious and racketeering.
Thus, the church, its officers, and any participating members in any definable racketeering become liable and vulnerable to criminal prosecution.
As an example, if the Pope ordered the death of any individual, he would be transformed into a "religious criminal. The same goes for the head(s) of any religious organization otherwise protected by the separation clause.
Most crimes have a statutory limit on prosecution for a certain period based upon the crime committed.
In the case of murder or conspiracy to commit murder, there is no statutory time limit between the murder and/or conspiracy and time of prosecution. Murder is a heinous crime outlawed by most civilized governments, therefore whenever it is discovered, prosecution is ripe no matter how cold or stale is the discovering of the crime.
As to the issue of a church being prosecuted for criminal conspiracy to commit murder or any other crime a prosecutor would likely be branded as a persecutor not a prosecutor.
Of course as all any attorneys will agree, not all crimes are prosecuted. It has become the privilege of prosecutors to have a discretionary right of determining whether to prosecute or not.
To that end the congress has passed laws known as the RICO Statute or Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization(s) statute which gives private prosecutorial rights to any individual who may have been a target of the alleged RICO offenses conspired by an otherwise "religious entity. Since the crime of murder or conspiracy to commit murder has no statute of limitations
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