What will happen if a legally dead but actually living person commits a crime after they are declared legally dead?
<p>What will happen if a legally dead but actually living person commits a crime after they are declared legally dead?</p>
<p>I wonder whether they will have a normal or posthumous trial. Or will they be tried only after their death status got overturned (which may take between a few months and never). Or they will not be tried at all because it is impossible for them to commit crime after death.</p>

<h2>The same thing that happens to everyone else</h2>
<p>Being declared legally dead does not mean that you are dead; it simply allows your assets to be distributed as if you were.</p>
<p>If you turn up alive, you go through a bureaucratic procedure to have the record of your death removed, get a new driver's licence, etc. You usually don't get your assets back. If you happen to commit a crime during this period you get arrested, charged and tried just like everybody else.</p>

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