(Gotta love all the non-lawyers arguing with a corporate lawyer over corporate law.) If people could be criminally charged "in absentia", then Edward Snowden,

(Gotta love all the non-lawyers arguing with a corporate lawyer over corporate law.) If people could be criminally charged "in absentia", then Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, etc would be convicted of things while they were in hiding. I think a better analogy is that they don't convict dead people of crimes. There's nothing to be gained from that.