Ateneo 2007 Criminal Law (Book 1).pdf

ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 Criminal Law SUMMER REVIEWER

BOOK I CRIMINAL LAW – A branch of municipal law which defines crimes, treats of their nature and provides for their punishment. Characteristics of Criminal Law: 1. General – binding on all persons who reside or sojourn in the Philippines Exceptions: a. Treaty Stipulation b. Laws of Preferential Application c. Principles of Public International Law Ex: i. sovereigns and other chiefs of state ii. Ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, minister resident and charges d’affaires (BUT consuls, vice-consuls and other foreign commercial representatives CANNOT claim the privileges and immunities accorded to ambassadors and ministers.) 2. Territorial – penal laws of the Philippines are enforceable only within its territory Exceptions: (Art. 2 of RPC – binding even on crimes committed outside the Philippines) a. offense committed while on a Philippine ship or airship b. forging or counterfeiting any coin or currency note of the Philippines or obligations and the securities issued by the Government QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor c. introduction into the country of the are needed to see this picture. above-mentioned obligations and securities d. while being public officers and employees, an offense committed in the exercise of their functions e. crimes against national security and the law of the nations defined in Title One of Book Two

retroactive effect. Exception: when the law is favorable to the accused Exceptions to the Exception: a. The new law is expressly made inapplicable to pending actions or existing causes of action b. Offender is a habitual criminal Theories of Criminal Law: 1. Classical Theory – basis is man’s free will to choose between good and evil, that is why more stress is placed upon the result of the felonious act than upon the criminal himself. The purpose of penalty is retribution. The RPC is generally governed by this theory. 2. Positivist Theory – basis is the sum of social and economic phenomena which conditions man to do wrong in spite of or contrary to his volition. This is exemplified in the provisions on impossible crimes and habitual delinquency. 3. Mixed Theory – combination of the classical and positivist theories wherein crimes that are economic and social in nature should be dealt in a positive manner. The law is thus more compassionate. Construction of Penal Laws: 1. Liberally construed in favor of offender Ex: a. the offender must clearly fall within the terms of the law b. an act is criminal only when made so by the statute 2. In cases of conflict with official translation, original Spanish text is controlling, 3. No interpretation by analogy.

LIMITATIONS ON POWER OF CONGRESS TO ENACT PENAL LAWS: 1. ex post facto law 2. bill of attainder 3. law that violates the equal protection clause of the constitution 4. law which imposes cruel and unusual punishments nor excessive fines

3. Prospective – the law does not have any —Advisers: Atty. Lorenzo Padilla, Justice Diosdado Peralta; Head: Kristine Quimpo; Understudies: Ivy Patdu, Krizna Gomez—

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 Omission – failure to perform a duty required by law BOOK ONE GENERAL PROVISIONS

ART.1: TIME WHEN ACT TAKES EFFECT RPC took effect February 1, 1932. ART. 2: APPLICATION OF ITS PROVISIONS RULES: 1. Philippine vessel or airship – Philippine law shall apply to offenses committed in vessels registered with the Philippine Bureau of Customs. It is the registration, not the citizenship of the owner which matters. 2. Foreign vessel a. French Rule General Rule: Crimes committed aboard a foreign vessel within the territorial waters of a country are NOT triable in the courts of such country. Exception: commission affects the peace and security of the territory, or the safety of the state is endangered. b. English Rule General Rule: Crimes committed aboard a foreign vessel within the territorial waters of a country are triable in the courts of such country. Exception: When the crime merely affects things within the vessel or it refers to the internal management thereof. *This is applicable in the Philippines. Title One: FELONIES QuickTime™ AND CIRCUMSTANCES and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor WHICH AFFECT CRIMINAL LIABILITY are needed to see this picture. Chapter One: FELONIES Felonies – acts and omissions punishable by the Revised Penal Code Crime – acts and omissions punishable by any law

ELEMENTS: 1. there must be an act or omission 2. this must be punishable by the RPC 3. act or omission was done by means of dolo or culpa NULLUM CRIMEN, NULLA POENA SINE LEGE – There is no crime when there is no law punishing it. Classification Of Felonies According To The Means By Which They Are Committed: 1. Intentional Felonies- by means of deceit (dolo) Requisites: a. freedom b. intelligence c. intent. MISTAKE OF FACT – misapprehension of fact on the part of the person who caused injury to another. He is not criminally liable. Requisites: a. the act done would have been lawful had the facts been as the accused believed them to be bintention is lawful b. mistake must be without fault or carelessness by the accused 2. Culpable Felonies- by means of fault (culpa) Requisites: a. freedom b. intelligence c. negligence (lack of foresight) and imprudence (lack of skill)

MALA IN SE v. MALA PROHIBITA Mala in se Mala Prohibita not considered moral trait of considered offender defense, not a defense; good faith as a valid unless the crime is intent not defense the result of culpa necessarysufficient that the offender has the intent to perpetrate the act prohibited by the special law

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taken into account only when consummated

mitigating and taken into account GENERALLY not in imposing penalty taken into account aggravating circumstance degree of when there is more than one offender, participation it is taken into consideration General Rule: laws violated RPC

INTENT v. MOTIVE Intent

GENERALLY not taken into account General Special Laws

Rule: Penal

Motive

purpose to use a moving power which impels particular means to effect one to act a result element of crime except not an element in crimes committed with culpa essential in intentional essential only when the identity felonies of the felon is in doubt

ART. 4: CRIMINAL LIABILITY Par.1 Criminal liability for a felony committed different from that intended to be committed Requisites: 1. felony has been committed intentionally 2. injury or damage done to the other party is the direct, natural and logical consequence of the felony Hence, since he is still motivated by criminal intent, the offender is criminally liable in: 1. Error in personae – mistake in identity 2. Abberatio ictus – mistake in blow QuickTime™ and a 3. Praetor intentionem – lack of intent to TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. commit so grave a wrong PROXIMATE CAUSE – the cause, which in the natural and continuous sequence unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury, without which the result would not have occurred

Par. 2 Impossible Crime Requisites: 1. Act would have been an offense against persons or property. 2. There was criminal intent. 3. Accomplishment is inherently impossible; or inadequate or ineffectual means are employed. 4. Act is not an actual violation of another provision of the Code or of special law. Impossible crime occurs when there is: 1. inherent impossibility to commit the crime 2. inadequate means to consummate the crime 3. ineffectual means to consummate the crime Art. 5: Duty of the court in connection with acts which should be repressed but which are not covered by the law, and in cases of excessive penalties Note: Paragraph 2 does not apply to crimes punishable by special law, including profiteering, and illegal possession of firearms or drugs. There can be no executive clemency for these crimes.

ART. 6: CONSUMMATED, FRUSTRATED, AND ATTEMPTED FELONIES STAGES OF EXECUTION: 1. CONSUMMATED – when all the elements necessary for its execution and accomplishment are present 2. FRUSTRATED Elements: a. offender performs all acts of execution b. all these acts would produce the felony as a consequence c. BUT the felony is NOT produced d. by reason of causes independent of the will of the perpetrator 3. ATTEMPTED Elements: a. offender commences the felony directly by overt acts b. does not perform all acts which would produce the felony c. his acts are not stopped by his own spontaneous desistance Page 3 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 Attempted Frustrated Consummated Overt acts of All acts of execution are All the acts of execution are execution are present present started Not all acts of Crime sought to be The result execution are committed is not sought is present achieved achieved Due to reasons Due to intervening other than the causes independent of the will of the perpetrator spontaneous desistance of the perpetrator

Crimes, which do not admit of Frustrated and Attempted Stages: 1. Offenses punishable by Special Penal Laws, unless the law provides otherwise 2. Formal crimes – consummated in one instance (Ex: slander, adultery, etc.) 3. Impossible Crimes 4. Crimes consummated by mere attempt (Ex: attempt to flee to an enemy country, treason, corruption of minors) 5. Felonies by omission 6. Crimes committed by mere agreement (Ex: betting in sports: “ending,” corruption of public officers) Crimes which do not admit of Frustrated Stage: 1. Rape 2. Bribery 3. Corruption of Public Officers 4. Adultery 5. Physical Injury 2 stages in the development of a crime: 1. Internal acts - e.g. mere ideas QuickTime™ of the mind and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor - not punishable are needed to see this picture. 2. External acts a. Preparatory acts - ordinarily not punishable except when considered by law as independent crimes (e.g. Art. 304, Possession of picklocks and similar tools) b. Acts of Execution - punishable under the RPC

ART. 7: WHEN LIGHT FELONIES ARE PUNISHABLE General Rule: Punishable only when they have been consummated Exception: Even if not consummated, if committed against persons or property Ex: slight physical injuries, theft, alteration of boundary marks, malicious mischief, and intriguing against honor. Note: Only principals and accomplices are liable; accessories are NOT liable even if committed against persons or property.

ART. 8: CONSPIRACY AND PROPOSAL TO COMMIT FELONY CONSPIRACY Requisites: 1. Two or more persons come to an agreement 2. For the commission of a felony 3. And they decide to commit it Concepts of Conspiracy: 1. As a crime in itself Ex: conspiracy to commit rebellion, insurrection, treason, sedition, coup d’ etat 2. Merely as a means to commit a crime Requisites: a. a prior and express agreement b. participants acted in concert or simultaneously, which is indicative of a meeting of the minds towards a common criminal objective Note: Conspiracy to commit a felony is different from conspiracy as a manner of incurring criminal liability. General Rule: Conspiracy to commit a felony is not punishable since it is merely a preparatory act. Exception: when the law specifically provides for a penalty Ex: rebellion, insurrection, sedition, coup d’ etat General Rule: The act of one is the act of all. Exception: Unless one or some of the conspirators committed some other crime which is not part of the intended crime. Page 4 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 Exception to the exception: When the act constitutes an indivisible offense. OVERT ACTS IN CONSPIRACY MUST CONSIST OF: 1. Active participation in the actual commission of the crime itself, or 2. Moral assistance to his co-conspirators by being present at the time of the commission of the crime, or 3. Exerting a moral ascendance over the other co-conspirators by moving them to execute or implement the criminal plan People v. Abut, et al. (GR No. 137601, April 24, 2003)

PROPOSAL TO COMMIT A FELONY Requisites: 1. A person has decided to commit a felony 2. And proposes its execution to some other person or persons

Elements

Crimes

Conspiracy Proposal Agreement to person decides to commit AND commit a crime AND proposes the commission same to another Conspiracy to commit: sedition, treason, rebellion, coup d’ etat

Proposal to commit: treason, rebellion, coup d’ etat *no proposal to commit sedition

ART. 9: GRAVE FELONIES, LESS GRAVE FELONIES AND LIGHT FELONIES QuickTime™ and a

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1. To determine whether the felonies can be complexed or not. 2. To determine the prescription of the crime and of the penalty. Penalties (imprisonment): 1. Grave felonies – afflictive penalties: 6 yrs. and 1 day to reclusion perpetua (life) 2. Less grave felonies – correctional penalties:

1 month and 1 day to 6 years 3. Light felonies - arresto menor (1 day to 30 days)

ART. 10: OFFENSES NOT SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CODE General Rule: RPC provisions are supplementary to special laws. Exceptions: 1. when special law provides otherwise 2. when provision of RPC are impossible of application, either by express provision or by necessary implication

Terms

Attempted or Frustrated Stages Plea of guilty as mitigating circumstance Minimum, medium and maximum periods Penalty for accessory or accomplice

Special Laws imprisonment

General Rule: Not punishable Exception: Unless otherwise stated No

RPC prision correccional, prision mayor, arresto mayor, etc. Punishable

Yes

Not applicable

Yes

General Rule: None Exception: Unless otherwise stated

Yes

Provisions of RPC applicable to special laws: • Art. 16 Participation of Accomplices • Art. 22 Retroactivity of Penal laws if favorable to the accused • Art. 45 Confiscation of instruments used in the crime Note: When the special law adopts the penalties imposed in the RPC i.e. penalties as reclusion perpetua, prision correccional, etc. the provisions of the RPC on imposition of penalties based on stages of execution, degree of participation and attendance of mitigating and aggravating circumstance may be applied by necessary implication.

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Chapter Two JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES AND CIRCUMSTANCES, WHICH EXEMPT FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY

ART. 11. JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES – where the act of a person is in accordance with law such that said person is deemed not to have violated the law. General Rule: No criminal and civil liability incurred. Exception: There is civil liability with respect to par. 4 where the liability is borne by persons benefited by the act.

Par. 1 Self-defense Elements: 1. Unlawful Aggression ƒ indispensable requirement ƒ There must be actual physical assault or aggression or an immediate and imminent threat, which must be offensive and positively strong. ƒ The defense must have been made during the existence of aggression, otherwise, it is no longer justifying. ƒ While generally an agreement to fight does not constitute unlawful aggression, violation of the terms of the agreement to fight is considered an exception. 2. Reasonable necessity of the employed to prevent or repel it –

means

Test of reasonableness depends on: (1) weapon used by aggressor (2) physical condition, character, size QuickTime™ and a and other circumstances of TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. aggressor (3) physical condition, character, size and circumstances of person defending himself (4) place and occasion of assault 3. Lack of sufficient provocation on the part of the person defending himself NOTE: Perfect equality between the weapons used,

nor material commensurability between the means of attack and defense by the one defending himself and that of the aggressor is not required REASON: the person assaulted does not have sufficient opportunity or time to think and calculate. Rights included in self-defense: 1. defense of person 2. defense of rights protected by law 3. defense of property (only if there is also an actual and imminent danger on the person of the one defending) 4. defense of chastity Kinds of Self-Defense: 1. self-defense of chastity – there must be an attempt to rape the victim 2. defense of property – must be coupled with an attack on the person of the owner, or on one entrusted with the care of such property. People v. Narvaez, (GR No. L-33466-67, April 20, 1983) Attack on property alone was deemed sufficient to comply with element of unlawful aggression

3. self-defense in libel – justified when the libel is aimed at a person’s good name. “Stand ground when in the right” - the law does not require a person to retreat when his assailant is rapidly advancing upon him with a deadly weapon. NOTE: Under Republic Act 9262 (Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004), victim-survivors who are found by the Courts to be suffering from Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) do not incur any criminal or civil liability despite absence of the necessary elements for the justifying circumstance of self-defense in the RPC. BWS is a scientifically defined pattern of psychological and behavioral symptoms found in women living in battering relationships as a result of cumulative abuse.

Par. 2 Defense of Relative Elements: 1. unlawful aggression requirement)

(indispensable

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 2. reasonable necessity of the means employed to prevent or repel it 3. In case the provocation was given by the person attacked, the one making the defense had no part in such provocation. Relative entitled to the defense: 1. spouse 2. ascendants 3. descendants 4. legitimate, natural or adopted brothers and sisters, or relatives by affinity in the same degrees th 5. relatives by consanguinity within the 4 civil degree NOTE: The relative defended may be the original aggressor. All that is required to justify the act of the relative defending is that he takes no part in such provocation. Par. 3 Defense of Stranger Elements: 1. unlawful aggression (indispensable requirement) 2. reasonable necessity of the means employed to prevent or repel it 3. person defending be not induced by revenge, resentment or other evil motive Par. 4 State of Necessity (Avoidance of Greater Evil or Injury) Elements: 1. evil sought to be avoided actually exists 2. injury feared be greater than that done to avoid it 3. no other practical and less harmful means of preventing it NOTE: The necessity must not be due to the negligence or violation of any law by the actor. QuickTime™ and a

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NOTE: The accused must prove that he was duly appointed to the position claimed he was discharging at the time of the commission of the offense. It must also be shown that the offense committed was the necessary consequence of such fulfillment of duty, or lawful exercise of a right or office. Par. 6 Obedience to a Superior Order Elements: 1. an order has been issued 2. order has a lawful purpose (not patently illegal) 3. means used by subordinate to carry out said order is lawful NOTE: The superior officer giving the order cannot invoke this justifying circumstance. Good faith is material, as the subordinate is not liable for carrying out an illegal order if he is not aware of its illegality and he is not negligent. General Rule: Subordinate cannot invoke this circumstance when order is patently illegal. Exception: When there is compulsion of an irresistible force, or under impulse of uncontrollable fear.

ART. 12: CIRCUMSTANCES, WHICH EXEMPT FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY EXEMPTING CIRCUMSTANCES – grounds for exemption from punishment because there is wanting in the agent of the crime any of the conditions which make the act voluntary or negligent. Basis: The exemption from punishment is based on the complete absence of intelligence, freedom of action, or intent, or on the absence of negligence on the part of the accused. Burden of proof: Any of the circumstances is a matter of defense and must be proved by the defendant to the satisfaction of the court.

Who/what is affected? Nature of act Existence

Justifying Act

Exempting Actor

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No criminal and civil liability BUT there is civil liability as to Art.11(4) (state of necessity)

voluntariness is absent the actor is not liable No criminal liability but there is civil liability EXCEPT as to Art. 12(4) (injury by mere accident) and (7) (lawful cause)

Par. 1 Imbecility or Insanity IMBECILE – one while advanced in age has a mental development comparable to that of children between 2 and 7 years old. He is exempt in all cases from criminal liability. INSANE – one who acts with complete deprivation of intelligence/reason or without the least discernment or with total deprivation of freedom of will. Mere abnormality of the mental faculties will not exclude imputability. General Rule: Exempt from criminal liability Exception: The act was done during a lucid interval. NOTE: Defense must prove that the accused was insane at the time of the commission of the crime because the presumption is always in favor of sanity.

Par. 2 Under Nine Years of Age Requisite: Offender is under 9 years of age at the time of the commission of the crime. There is absolute criminal irresponsibility in the case of a minor under 9 years of age. NOTE: Under R.A. 9344 or the Juvenile Justice And Welfare Act a minor 15 years and below is exempt from criminal liability Par. 3 Person Over 9 and Under 15 Acting QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor Without Discernment are needed to see this picture. NOTE: Such minor must have acted without discernment to be exempt. If with discernment, he is criminally liable. Presumption: The minor committed the crime without discernment. DISCERNMENT – mental capacity to fully appreciate

the consequences of the unlawful act, which is shown by the: 1. manner the crime was committed 2. conduct of the offender after its commission NOTE: Under R.A. 9344 a minor over 15 but but below 18 who acted without discernment is exempt from criminal liability Par. 4 Accident without fault or intention of causing it Elements: 1. A person is performing a lawful act 2. with due care 3. He causes injury to another by mere accident 4. Without fault or intention of causing it. Par. 5 Irresistible Force IRRESISTIBLE FORCE – offender uses violence or physical force to compel another person to commit a crime. Elements: 1. The compulsion is by means of physical force. 2. The physical force must be irresistible. 3. The physical force must come from a third person. NOTE: Force must be irresistible so as to reduce the individual to a mere instrument.

Par. 6 Uncontrollable Fear UNCONTROLLABLE FEAR – offender employs intimidation or threat in compelling another to commit a crime. DURESS – use of violence or physical force Elements: 1. The threat which causes the fear is of an evil greater than, or at least equal to, that which he is required to commit. 2. It promises an evil of such gravity and imminence that an ordinary man would have succumbed to it. NOTE: Duress to be a valid defense should be based on real, imminent or reasonable fear for one’s life or limb. It should not be inspired by speculative, fanciful or remote fear. A threat of future injury is not enough. Page 8 of 174

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ACTUS ME INVITO FACTUS NON EST MEUS ACTUS – Any act done by me against my will is not my act.

NOT a bar to Accused will be acquitted accused’s prosecution and conviction NOT an absolutory Absolutory cause cause

PAR 7. Insuperable Cause INSUPERABLE CAUSE – some motive, which has lawfully, morally or physically prevented a person to do what the law commands Elements: 1. An act is required by law to be done. 2. A person fails to perform such act. 3. His failure to perform such act was due to some lawful or insuperable cause. Ex: 1. A priest can’t be compelled to reveal what was confessed to him. 2. No available transportation – officer not liable for arbitrary detention 3. Mother who was overcome by severe dizziness and extreme debility, leaving child to die – not liable for infanticide (People v. Bandian, 63 Phil 530) ABSOLUTORY CAUSES – where the act committed is a crime but for some reason of public policy and sentiment, there is no penalty imposed. Exempting and justifying circumstances are absolutory causes. Examples of such other circumstances are: 1. spontaneous desistance (Art. 6) 2. accessories exempt from criminal liability (Art. 20) 3. Death or physical injuries inflicted under exceptional circumstances (Art. 247) 4. persons exempt from criminal liability from theft, swindling, malicious mischief (Art 332) 5. instigation NOTE: Entrapment is NOT an absolutory cause. A buy-bust operation conducted in connection with illegal drug-related offenses is a form of entrapment. Entrapment

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The ways and means are resorted to for the purpose of trapping and capturing the lawbreaker in the execution of his criminal plan.

Instigation

Instigator practically induces the would-be accused into the commission of the offense and himself becomes a co-principal

Chapter Three CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH MITIGATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Offset by any aggravating circumstance Effect on penalty

Kinds (Sources)

Privileged Mitigating Cannot be offset

Effect of imposing the penalty by 1 or 2 degrees lower than that provided by law Minority, Incomplete Self-defense, two or more mitigating circumstance without any aggravating circumstance (has the effect of lowering the penalty by one degree). Art. 64, 68 and 69

Ordinary Mitigating Can be offset by a generic aggravating circumstance If not offset, has the effect of imposing the minimum period of the penalty Those circumstances enumerated in paragraph 1 to 10 of Article 13

Age ≤ 15years

Criminal Responsibility/ Effect Absolute irresponsibility, exempting circumstance * as amended by RA 9344 15 < and < Conditional responsibility 18 Without discernment – not criminally liable With discernment – criminally liable * as amended by RA 9344 Minor Sentence is suspended delinquent 18 ≤ and ≤ 70 Full responsibility

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Mitigated responsibility, no imposition of death penalty, execution of death sentence may be suspended and commuted

ART. 13: MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES – those which if present in the commission of the crime reduces the penalty of the crime but does not erase criminal liability nor change the nature of the crime NOTE: A mitigating circumstance arising from a single fact absorbs all the other mitigating circumstances arising from that same fact. Par. 1 Incomplete Justifying or Exempting Circumstances NOTE: This applies when not all the requisites are present. If two requisites are present, it is considered a privileged mitigating circumstance. However, in reference to Art.11(4) if any of the last two requisites is absent, there is only an ordinary mitigating circumstance. Remember though, that in selfdefense, defense of relative or stranger, unlawful aggression must always be present as it is an indispensable requirement. Par. 2 Under 18 or Over 70 Years Old

This provision addresses the intention of the offender at the particular moment when the offender executes or commits the criminal act, not to his intention during the planning stage NOTE: In crimes against persons – if victim does not die, the absence of the intent to kill reduces the felony to mere physical injuries. It is not considered as mitigating. It is mitigating only when the victim dies. NOTE: It is not applicable to felonies by negligence because in felonies through negligence, the offender acts without intent. The intent in intentional felonies is replaced by negligence or imprudence. There is no intent on the part of the offender, which may be considered as diminished Par. 4 Provocation or Threat Provocation – any unjust or improper conduct or act of the offended party, capable of exciting, inciting or irritating anyone. Provocation

Vindication

Made directly only to the Grave offense may be also the offender’s person committing the against relatives mentioned by law felony Cause that brought about the provocation need not be a grave offense Necessary that provocation or threat immediately preceded the act. No time interval

Offended party must have done a grave offense to the offender or his relatives May be proximate. Time interval allowed

NOTE: Age of accused is determined by his age at the date of commission of crime, not date of trial. Par. 3 No Intention to Commit so Grave a Wrong QuickTime™ and a the proven facts NOTE: Can be used only when TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed toand see thisevident picture. show that there is a notable disproportion between the means employed to execute the criminal act and its consequences.

Factors that can be considered are: 1. weapon used 2. injury inflicted 3. part of the body injured 4. mindset of offender at the time of commission of crime

Requisites: 1. provocation must be sufficient 2. it must originate from the offended party 3. must be immediate to the commission of the crime by the person who is provoked NOTE: Threat should not be offensive and positively strong. Otherwise, it would be an unlawful aggression, which may give rise to self-defense and thus no longer a mitigating circumstance.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 Par. 5 Vindication of Grave Offense Requisites: 1. a grave offense done to the one committing the felony, his spouse, ascendants, descendants, legitimate, natural or adopted brothers or sisters or relatives by affinity within the same degrees 2. the felony is committed in immediate vindication of such grave offense NOTE: “Immediate” allows for a lapse of time, as long as the offender is still suffering from the mental agony brought about by the offense to him. (proximate time, not just immediately after)

3rd person Unlawful

Must come from lawful sentiments PASSION & OBFUSCATION Produced by an impulse which may be caused by provocation

PROVOCATION Comes from injured party

Offense which engenders perturbation of mind need not be immediate. It is only required that the influence thereof lasts until the crime is committed

Immediately precede the commission of the crime

Effect is loss of reason and selfcontrol on the part of the offender

Same

Par. 7 Surrender and Confession of Guilt Par. 6 Passion or Obfuscation Requisites: 1. offender acted upon an impulse 2. the impulse must be so powerful that it naturally produced passion or obfuscation in him NOTE: Act must have been committed not in the spirit of lawlessness or revenge; act must come from lawful sentiments. Act, Which Gave Rise To Passion And Obfuscation: 1. That there be an act, both unlawful and unjust 2. The act be sufficient to produce a condition of mind 3. That the act was proximate to the criminal act, not admitting of time during which the perpetrator might recover his normal equanimity 4. The victim must be the one who caused the passion or obfuscation QuickTime™ and a

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PASSION & OBFUSCATION Mitigating No physical force needed From the offender himself

IRRESISTIBLE FORCE Exempting Requires physical force Must come from a

Requisites:

VOLUNTARY SURRENDER 1. offender not actually arrested 2. offender surrendered to person in authority 3. surrender was voluntary

VOLUNTARY PLEA OF GUILT 1. offender spontaneously confessed his guilt 2. confession was made in open court, that is, before the competent court that is to try the case 3. confession of guilt was made prior to the presentation of the evidence for the prosecution

WHEN SURRENDER VOLUNTARY - must be spontaneous, showing the intent of the accused to submit himself unconditionally to the authorities, either because: 1. he acknowledges his guilt; or 2. he wishes to save them the trouble and expense necessarily incurred in his search and capture. NOTE: If both are present, considered as two independent mitigating circumstances. Further mitigates penalty.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 NOTES: ƒ plea made after arraignment and after trial has begun does not entitle accused to the mitigating circumstance ƒ If accused pleaded not guilty, even if during arraignment, he is entitled to mitigating circumstance as long as he withdraws his plea of not guilty to the charge before the fiscal could present his evidence. ƒ Plea to a lesser charge is not a Mitigating Circumstance because to be such, the plea of guilt must be to the offense charged. ƒ Plea to the offense charged in the amended info, lesser than that charged in the original info, is Mitigating Circumstance. Par. 8 Physical Defect of Offender The offender is deaf and dumb, blind or otherwise suffering from some physical defect, restricting his means of action, defense or communication with others. NOTE: The physical defect must relate to the offense committed. Par. 9 Illness of the Offender Requisites: 1. The illness of the offender must diminish the exercise of his will-power. 2. Such illness should not deprive the offender of consciousness of his acts. Par. 10 Similar and Analogous Circumstances

Examples Not examples defendant who is 60 years old killing the wrong with failing eyesight is similar to a person case of one over 70 yrs old QuickTime™ a outraged feeling of TIFF owner of notandresisting arrest is (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. animal taken for ransom is not the same as analogous to vindication of grave voluntary surrender offense

impulse of jealous feeling, similar to passion and obfuscation voluntary restitution of property, similar to voluntary surrender

running amuck is not mitigating

extreme poverty, similar to incomplete justification based on state of necessity

CHAPTER FOUR

CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH AGGRAVATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY

AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES – Those which, if attendant in the commission of the crime, serve to have the penalty imposed in its maximum period provided by law for the offense or those that change the nature of the crime. BASIS: The greater perversity of the offender manifested in the commission of the felony as shown by: 1. the motivating power itself, 2. the place of the commission, 3. the means and ways employed 4. the time, or 5. the personal circumstances of the offender, or the offended party.

KINDS OF AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES: 1. Generic - those which apply to all crimes 2. Specific - those which apply only to specific crimes, 3. Qualifying - those that change the nature of the crime 4. Inherent - which of necessity accompany the commission of the crime, therefore not considered in increasing the penalty to be imposed 5. Special - those which arise under special conditions to increase the penalty of the offense and cannot be offset by mitigating circumstances GENERIC AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCE EFFECT : When not set off by any mitigating circumstance, Increases the penalty which should be imposed upon the accused to the

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If not alleged in the information, a qualifying aggravating circumstance will be considered generic May be offset by a mitigating circumstance.

penalty than that specially prescribed by law for said crimes (People v. Bayot, 64Phil269, 273) To be considered as such, MUST be alleged in the information Cannot be offset by a mitigating circumstance

RULES ON AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES: 1. Aggravating circumstances shall NOT be appreciated if: a) They constitute a crime specially punishable by law, or b) It is included by the law in defining a crime with a penalty prescribed, and therefore shall not be taken into account for the purpose of increasing the penalty. Ex: “That the crime be committed by means of …fire,…explosion” (Art. 14, par. 12) is in itself a crime of arson (Art. 321) or a crime involving destruction (Art. 324). It is not to be considered to increase the penalty for the crime of arson or for the crime involving destruction.

act of all, regardless of lack of knowledge of the facts constituting the circumstance. (Art. 62, par. 4) 5. Aggravating circumstances, regardless of its kind, should be specifically alleged in the information AND proved as fully as the crime itself in order to increase the penalty. (Sec. 9, Rule 110, 2000 Rules of Criminal Procedure) 6. When there is more than one qualifying aggravating circumstance present, one of them will be appreciated as qualifying aggravating while the others will be considered as generic aggravating.

ART. 14: AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES

Par. 1. That advantage be taken by the offender of his public position Requisites: 1. Offender is public officer 2. Public officer must use the influence, prestige, or ascendancy which his office gives him as means to realize criminal purpose ƒ

2. The same rule shall apply with respect to any aggravating circumstance inherent in the crime to such a degree that it must of necessity accompany the commission thereof(Art.62, par.2) 3. Aggravating circumstances which arise: a) From the moral attributes of the offender; b) From his private relations with the offended party; or c) From any personal cause, shall only serve to aggravate the liability of the principals, accomplices and accessories as to whom such circumstances are attendant. (Art. QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor 62, par. 3) are needed to see this picture. 4. The circumstances which consist : a) In the material execution of the act, or b) In the means employed to accomplish it, shall serve to aggravate the liability of only those persons who had knowledge of them at the time of the execution of the act or their cooperation therein. Except when there is proof of conspiracy in which case the act of one is deemed to be the

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It is not considered as an aggravating circumstance where taking advantage of official position is made by law an integral element of the crime or inherent in the offense, Ex: malversation (Art. 217), falsification of a document committed by public officers (Art. 171). When the public officer did not take advantage of the influence of his position, this aggravating circumstance is not present NOTE : Taking advantage of a public position is also inherent in the case of accessories under Art. 19, par. 3 (harboring, concealing, or assisting in the escape of the principal of the crime), and in crimes committed by public officers (Arts. 204245).

Par. 2. That the crime be committed in contempt of or with insult to public authorities Requisites: 1. That the public authority is engaged in the exercise of his functions. 2. That he who is thus engaged in the exercise of said functions is not the person against whom the crime is committed. Page 13 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 3. The offender knows him to be a public authority. 4. His presence has not prevented the offender from committing the criminal act. PERSON IN AUTHORITY – public authority, or person who is directly vested with jurisdiction and has the power to govern and execute the laws Ex: 1. Governor 2. Mayor 3. Barangay captain/ chairman 4. Councilors 5. Government agents 6. Chief of Police NOTE: A teacher or professor of a public or recognized private school is not a “public authority within the contemplation of this paragraph. While he is a person in authority under Art. 152, that status is only for purposes of Art. 148 (direct assault) and Art. 152 (resistance and disobedience). ƒ

The crime should not be committed against the public authority (otherwise it will constitute direct assault under Art.148)

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This is NOT applicable when committed in the presence of a mere agent.

AGENT – subordinate public officer charged w/ the maintenance of public order and protection and security of life and property Ex: barrio vice lieutenant, barrio councilman Par. 3. That the act be committed: (1) with insult or in disregard of the respect due the offended party on account of his (a)rank, (b) age, or (c) sex or (2) that it be committed in the dwelling of the offended party, if the latter has not given provocation Rules regarding par 3(1): 1. These circumstances shall only be QuickTime™ and a (Uncompressed) decompressor circumstance. consideredTIFF as one aggravating are needed to see this picture. 2. Rank, age, sex may be taken into account only in crimes against persons or honor, they cannot be invoked in crimes against property. 3. It must be shown that in the commission of the crime the offender deliberately intended to offend or insult the sex, age and rank of the offended party. RANK – The designation or title of distinction used to fix the relative position of the offended party in

reference to others (There must be a difference in the social condition of the offender and the offended party). AGE – may refer to old age or the tender age of the victim. SEX– refers to the female sex, not to the male sex. The AC of disregard of rank, age, or sex is not applicable in the following cases: 1. When the offender acted with passion and obfuscation. 2. When there exists a relationship between the offended party and the offender. 3. When the condition of being a woman is indispensable in the commission of the crime. (Ex: in parricide, abduction, seduction and rape) People vs. Lapaz, March 31, 1989 Disregard of sex and age are not absorbed in treachery because treachery refers to the manner of the commission of the crime, while disregard of sex and age pertains to the relationship of the victim. DWELLING – must be a building or structure exclusively used for rest and comfort (combination of house and store not included), may be temporary as in the case of guests in a house or bedspacers. It includes dependencies, the foot of the staircase and the enclosure under the house NOTES: ƒ The aggravating circumstance of dwelling requires that the crime be wholly or partly committed therein or in any integral part thereof. ƒ Dwelling does not mean the permanent residence or domicile of the offended party or that he must be the owner thereof. He must, however, be actually living or dwelling therein even for a temporary duration or purpose. ƒ It is not necessary that the accused should have actually entered the dwelling of the victim to commit the offense; it is enough that the victim was attacked inside his own house, although the assailant may have devised means to perpetrate the assault from without. What aggravates the commission of the crime in one’s dwelling: 1. The abuse of confidence which the offended party reposed in the offender by opening the door to him; or Page 14 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 2. The violation of the sanctity of the home by trespassing therein with violence or against the will of the owner. Meaning of provocation in the aggravating circumstance of dwelling: The provocation must be: 1. Given by the owner of the dwelling, 2. Sufficient, and 3. Immediate to the commission of the crime. NOTE: If all these conditions are present, the offended party is deemed to have given the provocation, and the fact that the crime is committed in the dwelling of the offended party is NOT an aggravating circumstance. REASON: When it is the offended party who has provoked the incident, he loses his right to the respect and consideration due him in his own house. Dwelling is not aggravating in the following cases: 1. When both the offender and the offended party are occupants of the same house, and this is true even if offender is a servant in the house. exception: In case of adultery in the conjugal dwelling, the same is aggravating. However, if the paramour also dwells in the conjugal dwelling, the applicable aggravating circumstance is abuse of confidence. 2. When robbery is committed by the use of force upon things, dwelling is not aggravating because it is inherent. ƒ

However, dwelling is aggravating in robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons because this class of robbery can be committed without the necessity of trespassing the sanctity of the offended party’s house. QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

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4. When the owner of the dwelling gave sufficient and immediate provocation. ƒ There must exist a close relation between the provocation made by the victim and the commission of the crime by the accused.

5. The victim is not a dweller of the house. Par. 4. That the act be committed with: (1) abuse of confidence or (2) obvious ungratefulness There are two aggravating circumstances present under par.4 which must be independently appreciated if present in the same case While one may be related to the other in the factual situation in the case, they cannot be lumped together. Abuse of confidence requires a special confidential relationship between the offender and the victim, while this is not required for there to be obvious ungratefulness

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Requisites Of Abuse Of Confidence: 1. That the offended party had trusted the offender. 2. That the offender abused such trust by committing a crime against the offended party. 3. That the abuse of confidence facilitated the commission of the crime. NOTE: Abuse of confidence is inherent in malversation (Art. 217), qualified theft (Art. 310), estafa by conversion or misappropriation (Art. 315), and qualified seduction (Art. 337). Requisites of obvious ungratefulness: 1. That the offended party had trusted the offender; 2. That the offender abused such trust by committing a crime against the offended party. 3. That the act be committed with obvious ungratefulness. NOTE: The ungratefulness contemplated by par. 4 must be such clear and manifest ingratitude on the part of the accused. Par. 5. That the crime be committed in the palace of the Chief Executive, or in his presence, or where public authorities are engaged in the discharge of their duties, or in a place dedicated to religious worship. ƒ

Actual performance of duties is not necessary when crime is committed in the palace or in the presence of the Chief Executive

Requisites Regarding Public Authorities: 1. crime occurred in the public office

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NIGHTTIME (obscuridad) – that period of darkness beginning at the end of dusk and ending at dawn. ƒ

PAR. 5. Where public PAR. 2. Contempt or authorities are engaged insult to public in the discharge of their authorities duties FOR BOTH, Public authorities are in the performance of their duties

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Place where public duty is performed In their office. Outside of their office. The offended party May or may not be the Public authority should public authority not be the offended party Requisites (Place Dedicated To Religious Worship): 1. The crime occurred in a place dedicated to the worship of God regardless of religion 2. The offender must have decided to commit the crime when he entered the place of worship ƒ

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Except for the third which requires that official functions are being performed at the time of the commission of the crime, the other places mentioned are aggravating per se even if no official duties or acts of religious worship are being conducted there. Cemeteries, however respectable they may be, are not considered as place dedicated to the worship of God.

Par. 6. That the crime be committed (1) in the nighttime, or (2) in an uninhabited place, or (3) by a band, whenever such circumstance may facilitate the commission of the offense NOTE: When present in the same case and their element are distinctly palpable and can subsist independently, they shall be considered separately. QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.

When nighttime, uninhabited place or band aggravating: 1. When it facilitated the commission of the crime; or 2. When especially sought for by the offender to insure the commission of the crime or for the purpose of impunity; or 3. When the offender took advantage thereof for the purpose of impunity

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Commission of the crime must begin and be accomplished in the nighttime. When the place of the crime is illuminated by light, nighttime is not aggravating. It is not considered aggravating when the crime began at daytime. Nighttime is not especially sought for when the notion to commit the crime was conceived of shortly before commission or when crime was committed at night upon a casual encounter However, nighttime need not be specifically sought for when (1) it facilitated the commission of the offense, or (2) the offender took advantage of the same to commit the crime A bare statement that crime was committed at night is insufficient. The information must allege that nighttime was sought for or taken advantage of, or that it facilitated the crime

GENERAL RULE: Nighttime is absorbed in treachery. EXCEPTION: Where both the treacherous mode of attack and nocturnity were deliberately decided upon in the same case, they can be considered separately if such circumstances have different factual bases. Thus: ƒ In People vs. Berdida, et. al. (June 30, 1966), nighttime was considered since it was purposely sought, and treachery was further appreciated because the victim’s hands and arms were tied together before he was beaten up by the accused. ƒ In People vs. Ong, et. al. (Jan. 30, 1975), there was treachery as the victim was stabbed while lying face up and defenseless, and nighttime was considered upon proof that it facilitated the commission of the offense and was taken advantage of by the accused. UNINHABITED PLACE (despoblado) – one where there are no houses at all, a place at a considerable distance from town, where the houses are scattered at a great distance from each other ƒ ƒ

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 1. When both the attacking party and the party attacked were equally armed. 2. When the accused as well as those who cooperated with him in the commission of the crime acted under the same plan and for the same purpose. 3. When the others were only “casually present” and the offender did not avail himself of any of their aid or when he did not knowingly count upon their assistance in the commission of the crime

BAND (en cuadrilla) – whenever there are more than 3 armed malefactors that shall have acted together in the commission of an offense NOTE: There must be four or more armed men ƒ

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If one of the four-armed malefactors is a principal by inducement, they do not form a band because it is undoubtedly connoted that he had no direct participation. “By a band” is aggravating in crimes against property or against persons or in the crime of illegal detention or treason but does not apply to crimes against chastity “By a band” is inherent in brigandage This aggravating circumstance is absorbed in the circumstance of abuse of superior strength

Par. 7. That the crime be committed on the occasion of a conflagration, shipwreck, earthquake, epidemic or other calamity or misfortune. Requisites: 1. The crime was committed when there was a calamity or misfortune 2. The offender took advantage of the state of confusion or chaotic condition from such misfortune ƒ

If the offended was PROVOKED by the offended party during the calamity/misfortune, this aggravating circumstance may not be taken into consideration.

Par. 8.That the crime be committed with the aid of (1) armed men or (2) persons who insure or afford impunity Requisites: 1. That armed men or persons took part in the commission of the crime, directly or indirectly. 2. That the accused availed himself of their aid or relied upon them when the crime was QuickTime™ and a committed.TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.

NOTE: This aggravating circumstance requires that the armed men are accomplices who take part in a minor capacity directly or indirectly, and not when they were merely present at the crime scene. Neither should they constitute a band, for then the proper aggravating circumstance would be cuadrilla. When This Aggravating Circumstance Shall Not Be Considered:

Par. 6 “By a band”

Par. 8. “With the aid of armed men”

As to their number Requires more than three At least two armed malefactors (i.e., at least four) As to their action Requires that more than This circumstance is three armed malefactors present even if one of the shall have acted together offenders merely relied on in the commission of an their aid, for actual aid is offense. not necessary. ƒ

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If there are four armed men, aid of armed men is absorbed in employment of a band. If there are three armed men or less, aid of armed men may be the aggravating circumstance. “Aid of armed men” includes “armed women.”

Par. 9. That the accused is a recidivist RECIDIVIST – one who at the time of his trial for one crime, shall have been previously convicted by final judgment of another crime embraced in the same title of the RPC. Requisites: 1. That the offender is on trial for an offense; 2. That he was previously convicted by final judgment of another crime; 3. That both the first and the second offenses are embraced in the same title of the Code; 4. That the offender is convicted of the new offense. MEANING OF “at the time of his trial for one crime.” It is employed in its general sense, including the rendering of the judgment. It is meant to include everything that is done in the course of the trial, from Page 17 of 174

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What is controlling is the TIME OF THE TRIAL, not the time of the commission of the offense.

GENERAL RULE: To prove recidivism, it is necessary to allege the same in the information and to attach thereto certified copy of the sentences rendered against the accused. Exception: If the accused does not object and when he admits in his confession and on the witness stand. ƒ Recidivism must be taken into account no matter how many years have intervened between the first and second felonies. ƒ

Amnesty extinguishes the penalty and its effects. However, pardon does not obliterate the fact that the accused was a recidivist. Thus, even if the accused was granted a pardon for the first offense but he commits another felony embraced in the same title of the Code, the first conviction is still counted to make him a recidivist

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Being an ordinary aggravating circumstance, recidivism affects only the periods of a penalty, except in prostitution and vagrancy (Art. 202) and gambling (PD 1602) wherein recidivism increases the penalties by degrees. No other generic aggravating circumstance produces this effect

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In recidivism it is sufficient that the succeeding offense be committed after the commission of the preceding offense provided that at the time of his trial for the second offense, the accused had already been convicted of the first offense. If both offenses were committed on the same date, they shall be considered as only one, hence, they cannot be separately counted in order to constitute recidivism. Also, judgments of convicted handed down on the same day shall be considered as only one conviction. REASON: Because the Code requires that to be QuickTime™ and a (Uncompressed) decompressor at the time of considered as TIFF separate convictions, are needed to see this picture. his trial for one crime the accused shall have been previously convicted by final judgment of the other.

Par. 10. That the offender has been previously punished for an offense to which the law attaches an equal or greater penalty or for two or more crimes to which it attaches a lighter penalty.

Requisites Of Reiteracion Or Habituality: 1. That the accused is on trial for an offense; 2. That he previously served sentence for another offense to which the law attaches an a) Equal or b) Greater penalty, or c) For two or more crimes to which it attaches a lighter penalty than that for the new offense; and 3. That he is convicted of the new offense HABITUALITY RECIDIVISM As to the first offense It is necessary that the It is enough that a offender shall have final judgment has served out his been rendered in the sentence for the first first offense. offense As to the kind of offenses involved The previous and Requires that the subsequent offenses offenses be included must not be em in the same title of the braced in the same Code. title of the Code. THE FOUR FORMS OF REPETITION ARE: 1. Recidivism (par. 9, Art. 14) – Where a person, on separate occasions, is convicted of two offenses embraced in the same title in the RPC. This is a generic aggravating circumstance. 2. Reiteracion or Habituality (par. 10, Art. 14) – Where the offender has been previously punished for an offense to which the law attaches an equal or greater penalty or for two crimes to which it attaches a lighter penalty. This is a generic aggravating circumstance. 3. Multi-recidivism or Habitual delinquency (Art. 62, par, 5) – Where a person within a period of ten years from the date of his release or last conviction of the crimes of serious or less serious physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa or falsification, is found guilty of the said crimes a third time or oftener. This is an extraordinary aggravating circumstance. 4. Quasi-recidivism (Art. 160) – Where a person commits felony before beginning to serve or while serving sentence on a previous conviction for a felony. This is a special aggravating circumstance. ƒ

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done so, quasi-recidivism cannot at the same time constitute reiteracion, hence this aggravating circumstance cannot apply to a quasi-recidivist.

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When another aggravating circumstance already qualifies the crime, any of these aggravating circumstances shall be considered as generic aggravating circumstance only

If the same set of facts constitutes recidivism and reiteracion, the liability of the accused should be aggravated by recidivism which can easily be proven.

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When used as a means to kill another person, the crime is qualified to murder. PAR. 12 “by means of inundation, fire, etc.”

Par. 11. That the crime be committed in consideration of price, reward or promise. Requisites: 1. There are at least 2 principals: • The principal by inducement (one who offers) • The principal by direct participation (accepts) 2. The price, reward, or promise should be previous to and in consideration of the commission of the criminal act NOTE: The circumstance is applicable to both principals .It affects the person who received the price / reward as well as the person who gave it. ƒ

If without previous promise it was given voluntarily after the crime had been committed as an expression of his appreciation for the sympathy and aid shown by the other accused, it should not be taken into consideration for the purpose of increasing the penalty.

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The price, reward or promise need not consist of or refer to material things or that the same were actually delivered, it being sufficient that the offer made by the principal by inducement be accepted by the principal by direct participation before the commission of the offense.

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The inducement must be the primary consideration for the commission of the crime.

The crime is committed by means of any such acts involving great waste or ruin.

Par. 13. That the act be committed with evident premeditation Requisites: The prosecution must prove – 1. The time when the offender determined to commit the crime; 2. An act manifestly indicating that the culprit has clung to his determination; and 3. A sufficient lapse of time between the determination and execution, to allow him to reflect upon the consequences of his act and to allow his conscience to overcome the resolution of his will. Essence of premeditation: The execution of the criminal act must be preceded by cool thought and reflection upon the resolution to carry out the criminal intent during the space of time sufficient to arrive at a calm judgment. ƒ

To establish evident premeditation, it must be shown that there was a period sufficient to afford full opportunity for meditation and reflection, a time adequate to allow the conscience to overcome the resolution of the will, as well as outward acts showing the intent to kill. It must be shown that the offender had sufficient time to reflect upon the consequences of his act but still persisted in his determination to commit the crime. (PEOPLE vs. SILVA, et. al., GR No. 140871, August 8, 2002)

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Premeditation is absorbed by reward or promise.

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When the victim is different from that intended, premeditation is not aggravating. However, if the

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The circumstances under this paragraph will only be considered as aggravating if and when they are used by the offender as a means to accomplish a criminal purpose

PAR. 7 “on the occasion of a conflagration, shipwreck, etc. The crime is committed on the occasion of a calamity or misfortune.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 offender premeditated on the killing of any person, it is proper to consider against the offender the aggravating circumstance of premeditation, because whoever is killed by him is contemplated in his premeditation.

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DISGUISE (disfraz) – resorting to any device to conceal identity.

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The test of disguise is whether the device or contrivance resorted to by the offender was intended to or did make identification more difficult, such as the use of a mask or false hair or beard.

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The use of an assumed name in the publication of a libel constitutes disguise.

Par. 14. That (1) craft, (2) fraud, or (3) disguise be employed. Requisite The offender must have actually used craft, fraud, or disguise to facilitate the commission of the crime. CRAFT (astucia) – involved the use of intellectual trickery or cunning on the part of the accused. A chicanery resorted to by the accused to aid in the execution of his criminal design. It is employed as a scheme in the execution of the crime. FRAUD (fraude) – insidious words or machinations used to induce the victim to act in a manner which would enable the offender to carry out his design.

FRAUD Where there is a direct inducement by insidious words or machinations, fraud is present.

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CRAFT The act of the accused done in order not to arouse the suspicion of the victim constitutes craft.

Craft and fraud may be absorbed in treachery if they have been deliberately adopted as the means, methods or forms for the treacherous strategy, or they may co-exist independently where they are adopted for a different purpose in the commission of the crime. Ex: ƒ In People vs. San Pedro (Jan. 22, 1980), where the accused pretended to hire the driver in order to get his vehicle, it was held that there was craft directed to the theft of the QuickTime™ and a vehicle, separate from the means TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor needed to see picture. subsequentlyare used to thistreacherously kill the defenseless driver. ƒ

In People vs. Masilang (July 11, 1986) there was also craft where after hitching a ride, the accused requested the driver to take them to a place to visit somebody, when in fact they had already planned to kill the driver.

Par. 15. That (1) advantage be taken of superior strength, or (2) means be employed to weaken the defense. Par. 15 contemplates two aggravating circumstances, either of which qualifies a killing to murder. MEANING OF “advantage be taken”: To deliberately use excessive force that is out of proportion to the means for self-defense available to the person attacked. (PEOPLE vs. LOBRIGAS, et. al., GR No. 147649, December 17, 2002) No Advantage Of Superior Strength In The Following: 1. One who attacks another with passion and obfuscation does not take advantage of his superior strength. 2. When a quarrel arose unexpectedly and the fatal blow was struck at a time when the aggressor and his victim were engaged against each other as man to man. ƒ

TEST for abuse of superior strength: the relative strength of the offender and his victim and whether or not he took advantage of his greater strength.

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When there are several offenders participating in the crime, they must ALL be principals by direct participation and their attack against the victim must be concerted and intended to be so.

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Abuse of superior strength is also present when the offender uses a weapon which is out of proportion to the defense available to the offended party.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 “BY A BAND”

“ABUSE OF SUPERIOR STRENGTH”

The element of band is appreciated when the offense is committed by more than three armed malefactors regardless of the comparative strength of the victim or victims.

The gravamen of abuse of superiority is the taking advantage by the culprits of their collective strength to overpower their relatively weaker victim or victims. Hence, what is taken into account here is not the number of aggressors nor the fact that they are armed, but their relative physical strength vis-a vis the offended party.

directly and specially to insure its execution without risk to himself arising from the defense which the offended party might make. Requisites: 1. That at the time of the attack, the victim was not in a position to defend himself; and 2. That the offender consciously adopted the particular means, method or form of attack employed by him. TEST: It is not only the relative position of the parties but, more specifically, whether or not the victim was forewarned or afforded the opportunity to make a defense or to ward off the attack. Rules Regarding Treachery: 1. Applicable only to crimes against persons. 2. Means, methods or forms need not insure accomplishment of crime. 3. The mode of attack must be consciously adopted. ƒ

Treachery is taken into account even if the crime against the person is complexed with another felony involving a different classification in the Code. Accordingly, in the special complex crime of robbery with homicide, treachery but can be appreciated insofar as the killing is concerned.

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The suddenness of attack in itself does not constitute treachery, even if the purpose was to kill, so long as the decision was made all of a sudden and the victim’s helpless position was accidental.

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Treachery is considered against all the offenders when there is conspiracy.

NOTE: Abuse of superior strength absorbs cuadrilla (“band”). MEANING OF “Means employed to weaken defense” - the offender employs means that materially weaken the resisting power of the offended party. Ex: 1. Where one, struggling with another, suddenly throws a cloak over the head of his opponent and while in this situation he wounds or kills him. 2. One who, while fighting with another, suddenly casts sand or dirt upon the latter eyes and then wounds or kills him. 3. When the offender, who had the intention to kill the victim, made the deceased intoxicated, thereby materially weakening the latter’s resisting power. QuickTime™is andapplicable a NOTE: This circumstance only to TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. crimes against persons, and sometimes against person and property, such as robbery with physical injuries or homicide. Par. 16. That the act be committed with treachery (alevosia) TREACHERY – when the offender commits any of the crimes against the person, employing means, methods or forms in the execution thereof which tend

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WHEN MUST TREACHERY BE PRESENT: 1. When the aggression is continuous, treachery must be present in the beginning of the assault. (PEOPLE vs. MANALAD, GR No. 128593, August 14, 2002) ƒ

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 wounded, with no appreciable time intervening between the delivery of the blows and the firing of the shot, it cannot be said that the crime was attended by treachery. 2. When the assault was not continuous, in that there was interruption, it is sufficient that treachery was present at the moment the fatal blow was given. ƒ

Hence, even though in the inception of the aggression which ended in the death of the deceased, treachery was not present, if there was a break in the continuity of the aggression and at the time of the fatal wound was inflicted on the deceased he was defenseless, the circumstance of treachery must be taken into account.

Treachery Should Be Considered Even If: 1. The victim was not predetermined but there was a generic intent to treacherously kill any first two persons belonging to a class. (The same rule obtains for evident premeditation). 2. There was aberratio ictus and the bullet hit a person different from that intended. (The rule is different in evident premeditation). 3. There was error in personae, hence the victim was not the one intended by the accused. (A different rule is applied in evident premeditation). REASON FOR THE RULE: When there is treachery, it is impossible for either the intended victim or the actual victim to defend himself against the aggression. TREACHERY ABSORBS: 1. Craft 2. Abuse of superior strength 3. Employing means to weaken the defense QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor 4. Cuadrilla (“band”) are needed to see this picture. 5. Aid of armed men 6. Nighttime

TREACHERY

ABUSE OF SUPERIOR STRENGTH

Means, methods or forms are employed by the offender to make it impossible or hard for the offended party to put any sort of resistance

Offender does not employ means, methods or forms of attack, he only takes advantage of his superior strength

MEANS EMPLOYED TO WEAKEN DEFENSE Means are employed but it only materially weakens the resisting power of the offended party

Par. 17. That means be employed or circumstances brought about which add ignominy to the natural effects of the act IGNOMINY – is a circumstance pertaining to the moral order, which adds disgrace and obloquy to the material injury caused by the crime. MEANING OF “which add ignominy to the natural effects thereof” The means employed or the circumstances brought about must tend to make the effects of the crime more humiliating to victim or to put the offended party to shame, or add to his moral suffering. Thus it is incorrect to appreciate ignominy where the victim was already dead when his body was dismembered, for such act may not be considered to have added to the victim’s moral suffering or humiliation. (People vs. Carmina, G.R. No. 81404, January 28, 1991) ƒ

Applicable to crimes against chastity, less serious physical injuries, light or grave coercion, and murder.

Par. 18. That the crime be committed after an unlawful entry. UNLAWFUL ENTRY - when an entrance is effected by a way not intended for the purpose. NOTE: Unlawful entry must be a means to effect entrance and not for escape. REASON FOR AGGRAVATION: One who acts, not respecting the walls erected by men to guard their property and provide for their personal safety, shows a greater perversity, a greater audacity; hence, the law punishes him with more severity.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 Par. 19. That as a means to the commission of a crime, a wall, roof, floor, door, or window be broken.

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Applicable only if such acts were done by the offender to effect ENTRANCE. If the wall, etc., is broken in order to get out of the place, it is not an aggravating circumstance.

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It is NOT necessary that the offender should have entered the building Therefore, If the offender broke a window to enable himself to reach a purse with money on the table near that window, which he took while his body was outside of the building, the crime of theft was attended by this aggravating circumstance.

PAR. 19 It involves the breaking (rompimiento) of the enumerated parts of the house.

PAR. 18 Presupposes that there is no such breaking as by entry through the window.

NOTE: Breaking in is lawful in the following instances: 1. An officer, in order to make an arrest, may break open a door or window of any building in which the person to be arrested is or is reasonably believed to be; 2. An officer, if refused admittance, may break open any door or window to execute the search warrant or liberate himself, 3. Replevin, Section 4, Rule 60 of the Rules of Court Par. 20. That the crime be committed (1) with the aid of persons under fifteen (15) years of age, or (2) by means of motor vehicles, airships, or other similar means. QuickTime™ and a TWO DIFFERENTTIFFCIRCUMSTANCES GROUPED (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. IN THIS PARAGRAPH: 1. With the aid of persons under fifteen years of age: ƒ Intends to repress, so far as possible, the frequent practice resorted to by professional criminals to avail themselves of minors taking advantage of their irresponsibility. 2. By means of motor vehicles, airships, or other similar means:

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Intended to counteract the great facilities found by modern criminals in said means to commit crime and flee and abscond once the same is committed.

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Use of motor vehicle is aggravating where the accused purposely and deliberately used the motor vehicle in going to the place of the crime, in carrying away the effects thereof, and in facilitating their escape.

MEANING OF “or other similar means” Should be understood as referring to motorized vehicles or other efficient means of transportation similar to automobile or airplane.

Par. 21. That the wrong done in the commission of the crime be deliberately augmented by causing other wrong not necessary for its commission CRUELTY – there is cruelty when the culprit enjoys and delights in making his victim suffer slowly and gradually, causing unnecessary physical pain in the consummation of the criminal act. Requisites: 1. That the injury caused be deliberately increased by causing other wrong; 2. That the other wrong be unnecessary for the execution of the purpose of the offender. ƒ ƒ

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Cruelty is not inherent in crimes against persons. In order for it to be appreciated, there must be positive proof that the wounds found on the body of the victim were inflicted while he was still alive in order unnecessarily to prolong physical suffering. Cruelty cannot be presumed If the victim was already dead when the acts of mutilation were being performed, this would also qualify the killing to murder due to outraging of his corpse.

IGNOMINY (PAR.17) Involves MORAL suffering ¾

CRUELTY (PAR. 21) Refers to PHYSICAL suffering

Unlike mitigating circumstances (par. 10, Art. 13), there is NO provision for aggravating circumstances of a similar or analogous character.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 CHAPTER FIVE ALTERNATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES

ALTERNATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES – Those which must be taken into consideration as aggravating or mitigating according to the nature and effects of the crime and the other conditions attending its commission.

ART.15 Concept of Alternative Circumstances BASIS: The nature and effects of the crime and the other conditions attending its commission. THE ALTERNATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE: 1. Relationship; 2. Intoxication; and 3. Degree of instruction and education of the offender. RELATIONSHIP The alternative circumstance of relationship shall be taken into consideration when the offended party is the – 1. Spouse, 2. Ascendant, 3. Descendant, 4. Legitimate, natural, or adopted brother or sister, or 5. Relative by affinity in the same degree of the offender. Other Relatives Included (By Analogy): 1. The relationship of stepfather or stepmother and stepson or stepdaughter. REASON: It is the duty of the stepparents QuickTime™ to bestow upon their and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor stepchildren a mother’s/father’s affection, are needed to see this picture. care and protection. 2. The relationship of adopted parent and adopted child. NOTE: But the relationship of uncle and niece is not covered by any of the relationship mentioned.

When Relationship Mitigating And When Aggravating: 1. As a rule, relationship is mitigating in crimes against property, by analogy to the provisions of Art. 332. ƒ Thus, relationship is mitigating in the crimes of robbery (Arts. 294-302), usurpation (Art. 312), fraudulent insolvency (Art. 314) and arson (Arts. 321-322, 325-326). 2. In crimes against persons – a) It is aggravating where the offended party is a relative of I. a higher degree than the offender, or II. when the offender and the offended party are relatives of the same level (e.g. brothers) b) But when it comes to physical injuries: i. It is aggravating when the crime involves serious physical injuries (Art. 263), even if the offended party is a descendant of the offender. But the serious physical injuries must not be inflicted by a parent upon his child by excessive chastisement. ii. It is mitigating when the offense committed is less serious physical injuries or slight physical injuries, if the offended party is a relative of a lower degree. iii. It is aggravating if the offended party is a relative of a higher degree of the offender. c) When the crime is homicide or murder, relationship is aggravating even if the victim of the crime is a relative of a lower degree. d) In rape, relationship is aggravating where a stepfather raped his stepdaughter or in a case where a father raped his own daughter. 3. In crimes against chastity, like acts of lasciviousness (Art. 336), relationship is always aggravating, regardless of whether the offender is a relative of a higher or lower degree of the offended party. ƒ

When the qualification given to the crime is derived from the relationship between the offender and the offended party, it is neither mitigating nor aggravating, because it is inseparable from and inherent in the offense. (e.g. parricide, adultery and concubinage).

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 INTOXICATION TITLE TWO

When Intoxication Mitigating And When Aggravating: 1. Mitigating – i. If intoxication is not habitual, or ii. If intoxication is not subsequent to the plan to commit a felony. 2. Aggravating – i. If intoxication is habitual, or ii. If it is intentional (subsequent to the plan to commit a felony). To Be Entitled To The Mitigating Circumstance Of Intoxication, It Must Be Shown: 1. That at the time of the commission of the criminal act, the accused has taken such quantity of alcoholic drinks as to blur his reason and deprive him of a certain degree of control, and 2. That such intoxication is not habitual, or subsequent to the plan to commit the felony. ƒ To be mitigating, the accused’s state of intoxication must be proved. Once intoxication is established by satisfactory evidence, in the absence of proof to the contrary, it is presumed to be non-habitual or unintentional. INSTRUCTION OR EDUCATION ƒ As an alternative circumstance it does not refer only to literacy but more to the level of intelligence of the accused. ƒ Refers to the lack or presence of sufficient intelligence and knowledge of the full significance of one’s acts. ƒ Low degree of instruction and education or lack of it is generally mitigating. High degree of instruction and education is aggravating, when the offender took advantage of his learning in committing the crime. GENERAL RULE: Lack of sufficient education is QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor mitigating. are needed to see this picture. EXCEPTIONS: 1. Crimes against property (e.g. arson, estafa, theft, robbery) 2. Crimes against chastity, and 3. Treason – because love of country should be a natural feeling of every citizen, however unlettered or uncultured he may be.

PERSONS CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR FELONIES

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Note that accessories are not liable for light felonies. REASON: In the commission of light felonies, the social wrong as well as the individual prejudice is so small that penal sanction is unnecessary.

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The classification of the offenders as principal, accomplice or an accessory is essential under the RPC. The classification maybe applied to special laws only if the latter provides for the same graduated penalties as those provided under the RPC.

There Are Two Parties In All Crimes: 1. Active subject (the criminal) ƒ Art. 16 enumerates the active subjects of the crime. 2. Passive subject (the injured party) ƒ Is the holder of the injured right: the man, the juristic person, the group, and the State. ƒ Note: Only natural persons can be the active subject of crime because of the highly personal nature of the criminal responsibility. ƒ

However, corporation and partnership can be a passive subject of a crime.

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GENERALLY: Corpses and animals cannot be passive subjects because they have no rights that may be injured. EXCEPTION: Under Art. 253, the crime of defamation may be committed if the imputation tends to blacken the memory of one who is dead.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 ART.17.PRINCIPALS THREE TYPES OF PRINCIPALS: 1. Principal by DIRECT PARTICIPATION (par.1) 2. Principal by INDUCTION (par.2) 3. Principal by INDISPENSABLE COOPERATION (par.3) • Par. 1 – Principals by direct participation Requisites: 1. That they participated in the criminal resolution; and (conspiracy) 2. That they carried out their plan and personally took part in its execution by acts which directly tended to the same end. NOTE: If the second element is missing, those who did not participate in the commission of the acts of execution cannot be held criminally liable, unless the crime agreed to be committed is treason, sedition, coup d’ etat or rebellion. MEANING OF “personally took part in its execution” ƒ

That the principal by direct participation must be at the scene of the commission of the crime, personally taking part in its execution.

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Under conspiracy, although he was not present in the scene of the crime, he is equally liable as a principal by direct participation. Ex: One serving as guard pursuant to the conspiracy is a principal by direct participation

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Regarding multiple rape – each rapist is liable for another’s crime because each cooperated in the commission of the rapes perpetrated by the others EXCEPTION: in the crime of murder w/ treachery – all the offenders must at least know that there will be treachery in executing the crime or cooperate therein.

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No such thing as conspiracy to commit an offense through negligence. However, special laws may make one a co-principal.

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Conspiracy is negated by the acquittal of codefendant. Par. 2 – Principals by induction

Requisites: 1. That the inducement be made directly with the intention of procuring the commission of the crime; and 2. That such inducement be the determining cause of the commission of the crime by the material executor.

CONSPIRACY – there is unity of purpose and intention. How conspiracy is established: QuickTime™ and a (Uncompressed) decompressor • It is proven by TIFF overt acttoand reasonable are needed see thisbeyond picture. doubt • Mere knowledge or approval is insufficient • It is not necessary that there be formal agreement • Conspiracy is implied when the accused had a common purpose and were united in execution. • Unity of purpose and intention in the commission of the crime may be shown in the following cases:

1. Spontaneous agreement at the moment of the commission of the crime 2. Active cooperation by all the offenders in the perpetration of the crime 3. Contribution by positive acts to the realization of a common criminal intent 4. Presence during the commission of the crime by a band and lending moral support thereto. While conspiracy may be implied from the circumstances attending the commission of the crime, it is nevertheless a rule that conspiracy must be established by positive and conclusive evidence.

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One cannot be held guilty of having instigated the commission of the crime without first being shown that the crime was actually committed (or attempted) by another. Thus, there can be no principal by inducement (or by indispensable cooperation) unless there is a principal by direct participation. But there can be a principal by direct participation without a Page 26 of 174

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If the person who actually committed the crime had reason of his own to commit the crime, it cannot be said that the inducement was influential in producing the criminal act.

Two Ways Of Becoming Principal By Induction: 1. By directly forcing another to commit a crime by : a) Using irresistible force. b) Causing uncontrollable fear. ƒ In these cases, there is no conspiracy, not even a unity of criminal purpose and intention. Only the one using the force or causing the fear is criminally liable. The material executor is not criminally liable because of Art. 12, pars. 5 and 6 (exempting circumstances) 2. By directly inducing another to commit a crime by – a) Giving of price, or offering of reward or promise. ƒ The one giving the price or offering the reward or promise is a principal by inducement while the one committing the crime in consideration thereof is a principal by direct participation. There is collective criminal responsibility. b) Using words of command ƒ The person who used the words of command is a principal by inducement while the person who committed the crime because of the words of command is a principal by direct participation. There is also collective criminal responsibility. Requisites for words of command to be considered inducement: 1. Commander has the intention of procuring the commission of the crime 2. Commander has ascendancy or influence 3. Words used be so direct, so efficacious, so powerful 4. Command be uttered prior to the commission QuickTime™ andreason a 5. Executor had no personal TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.

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The inducement must precede the act induced and must be so influential in producing the criminal act that without it, the act would not have been performed. Mere imprudent advice is not inducement.

PRINCIPAL BY INDUCEMENT

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There is an inducement to commit a crime When liable Becomes liable only when the crime is committed by the principal by direct participation.

The mere proposal to commit a felony is punishable in treason or rebellion. However, the person to whom the proposal is made should not commit the crime, Otherwise, the proponent becomes a principal by inducement.

What kind of crime involved Involves any crime

The proposal to be punishable must involve only treason or rebellion.

Effects Of Acquittal Of Principal By Direct Participation Upon Liability Of Principal By Inducement: 1. Conspiracy is negatived by the acquittal of codefendant. 2. One cannot be held guilty of having instigated the commission of a crime without first being shown that the crime has been actually committed by another. ƒ But if the one charged as principal by direct participation is acquitted because he acted without criminal intent or malice, his acquittal is not a ground for the acquittal of the principal by inducement. ƒ

REASON FOR THE RULE: In exempting circumstances, such as when the act is not voluntary because of lack of intent on the part of the accused, there is a crime

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QUASI-COLLECTIVE criminal responsibility: Some of the offenders in the crime are principals and the others are accomplices.

Par. 3 – Principal by indispensable cooperation Requisites: 1. Participation in the criminal resolution, that is, there is either anterior conspiracy or unity of criminal purpose and intention immediately before the commission of the crime charged; and 2. Cooperation in the commission of the offense by performing another act, without which it would not have been accomplished.

ART.18.ACCOMPLICES– ACCOMPLICES - Persons who do not act as principals but cooperate in the execution of the offense by previous and simultaneous acts, which are not indispensable to the commission of the crime. They act as mere instruments that perform acts not essential to the perpetration of the offense Requisites: (the following must concur) 1. That there be community of design; that is, knowing the criminal design of the principal by direct participation, he concurs with the latter his purpose;

MEANING OF “cooperation in the commission of the offense”

2. That he cooperates in the execution of the offense by previous or simultaneous acts, with the intention of supplying material or moral aid in the execution of the crime in an efficacious way; and

To desire or wish in common a thing. But that common will or purpose does not necessarily mean previous understanding, for it can be explained or inferred from the circumstances of each case.

3. That there be a relation between the acts done by the principal and those attributed to the person charged as an accomplice.

NOTE: If the cooperation is not indispensable, the offender is only an accomplice. Collective Criminal Responsibility: This is present when the offenders are criminally liable in the same manner and to the same extent. The penalty to be imposed must be the same for all. Principals by direct participation have collective criminal responsibility. Principals by induction, (except those who directly forced another to commit a crime) and principals by direct participation have collective criminal responsibility. Principals by indispensable cooperation have collective criminal responsibilities with the principals by direct participation.

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In the absence of any previous conspiracy, unity of criminal purpose and intention immediately before the commission of the crime, or community of criminal design, the criminal responsibility arising from different acts directed against one and the same person is considered as individual and not collective, and each of the participants is liable only for the act committed by him.

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The person charged as an accomplice should not have inflicted a mortal wound. If he inflicted a mortal wound, he becomes a principal by direct participation.

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ART.19.ACCESSORIES Accessories are those who: 1. having knowledge of the commission of the crime, and 2. without having participated therein either as principals or accomplices, take part subsequent to its commission in any of the following acts: a. By profiting themselves or assisting the offender to profit by the effects of the crime. Page 28 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 b. Assisting the offender to profit by the effects of the crime. c. By concealing or destroying the body of the crime to prevent its discovery.

Requisites: 1. The accessory is a public officer. 2. He harbors, conceals, or assists in the escape of the principal. 3. The public officer acts with abuse of his public functions. 4. The crime committed by the principal is any crime, provided it is not a light felony.

In profiting by the effects of the crime, the accessory must receive the property from the principal. He should not take it without the consent of the principal. If he took it without the consent of the principal, he is not an accessory but a principal in the crime of theft. EXAMPLE: PAR. 1 - person received and used property from another, knowing it was stolen PAR. 2 - placing a weapon in the hand of the dead who was unlawfully killed to plant evidence, or burying the deceased who was killed by the principals

2. PRIVATE persons who harbor, conceal or assist in the escape of the author of the crime who is guilty of treason, parricide, murder, or attempts against the life of the President, or who is known to be habitually guilty of some other crime. Requisites: 1. The accessory is a private person. 2. He harbors, conceals or assists in the escape of the author of the crime. 3. The crime committed by the principal is either: a. Treason, b. Parricide, c. Murder, d. An attempt against the life of the President, or e. That the principal is known to be habitually guilty of some other crime.

PAR. 3 - a) public officers who harbor, conceal or assist in the escape of the principal of any crime (not light felony) with abuse of his public functions b) private persons who harbor, conceal or assist in the escape of the author of the crime – guilty of treason, parricide, murder or an attempt against the life of the President, or who is known to be habitually guilty of some crime. GENERAL RULE: If the Principal is acquitted the Accessory is also acquitted. The responsibility of the accessory is subordinate to that of the principal in a crime Exception: When the crime was in fact committed by the principal, but the principal is covered by exempting circumstances (Art 12) and as a result he is not held liable. However, it is possible that the accessory may still be held liable even if the principal was acquitted by an exempting circumstance ƒ

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Neither the letter nor the spirit of the law requires that the principal be convicted before one may be punished as an accessory. As long as the corpus delicti is proved and the accessory’s participation as such is shown, he can be held criminally responsible and meted out the corresponding penalty (Inovero vs. Coronel, CA, 65 O.G. 3160).

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The prescribed acts of the accessory under par. 2 must have been intended to prevent the discovery of the crime, hence, mere silence does not make one an accessory. If, however, the crime involved is a conspiracy to commit treason, his silence may hold him liable for misprision of treason (Art. 116) but as a principal thereof.

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Where the accused misleads the authorities by giving them false information, such act is equivalent to concealment and he should be held as an accessory.

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Two classes of accessories contemplated in par. 3 of art. 19 1. PUBLIC officers, who harbor, conceal or assist in the escape of the principal of any crime (not light felony) with abuse of his public functions.

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ACCESSORY

Takes direct part or cooperates in, or induces the commission of the crime

Does NOT take direct part or cooperates in, or induces the commission of the crime does not take part in the commission of the offense

cooperates in the commission of the offense by acts either prior thereto or simultaneous therewith Participates during commission of the crime

Participation of the accessory in all cases always SUBSEQUENT to the commission of the crime

ANTI-FENCING LAW OF 1979 PRES. DECREE 1612

FENCING– is an act, with intent to gain, of buying, selling, receiving, possessing, keeping, or in any other manner dealing in anything of value which a person knows or should have known to be derived from the proceeds of the crime of robbery or theft. FENCE– is a person who commits the act of fencing. A fence who receives stolen property as aboveprovided is not an accessory but a principal in the crime defined in and punished by the Anti-Fencing Law.

3. descendant, or 4. legitimate, natural or adopted brother, sister or relative by affinity within the same degree. Accessory Is Not Exempt From Criminal Liability Even If The Principal Is Related To Him, If Such Accessory – 1. profited by the effects of the crime, or 2. assisted the offender to profit by the effects of the crime. REASON: Because such acts are prompted not by affection but by a detestable greed.

NOTES: ƒ Nephew and Niece not included ƒ Public officer contemplated in par. 3 of Art. 19 is exempt by reason of relationship to the principal, even if such public officer acted with abuse of his official functions. REASON: Ties of blood or relationship constitutes a more powerful incentive than the call of duty. P.D. 1829 penalizes the act of any person who knowingly or willfully obstructs, impedes, frustrates or delays the apprehension of suspects and the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases. ƒ

The benefits of the exception in Art. 20 do not apply to PD 1829.

TITLE THREE PENALTIES

Mere possession of anything of value which has been the subject of robbery or theft shall be prima facie evidence of fencing. Chapter One : PENALTIES IN GENERAL ART.20.ACCESSORIES WHO ARE EXEMPT FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY BASIS: QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor The exemption provided for in this article is based on are needed to see this picture. the ties of blood and the preservation of the cleanliness of one’s name, which compels one to conceal crimes committed by relatives so near as those mentioned in this article. AN ACCESSORY IS EXEMPT FROM CRIMINAL LIABLITY WHEN THE PRINCIPAL IS HIS : 1. spouse, or 2. ascendant, or

PENALTY – suffering inflicted by the State for the transgression of a law. Different Juridical Conditions Of Penalty: 1. Must be productive of suffering, without however affecting the integrity of the human personality. 2. Must be commensurate with the offense – different crimes must be punished with different penalties.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 3. Must be personal – no one should be punished for the crime of another. 4. Must be legal – it is the consequence of a judgment according to law. 5. Must be certain – no one may escape its effects. 6. Must be equal for all. 7. Must be correctional. Purpose Of The State In Punishing Crimes The State has an existence of its own to maintain, a conscience to assert, and moral principles to be vindicated. Penal justice must therefore be exercised by the State in the service and satisfaction of a duty, and rests primarily on the moral rightfulness of the punishment inflicted (to secure justice). The basis of the right to punish violations of penal law is the police power of the State.

Theories Justifying Penalty: 1. Prevention – to prevent or suppress the danger to the State arising from the criminal act of the offender. 2. Self-defense – so as to protect society from the threat and wrong inflicted by the criminal. 3. Reformation – the object of punishment in criminal cases is to correct and reform the offender. 4. Exemplarity – the criminal is punished to serve as an example to deter others from committing crimes. 5. Justice – that crime must be punished by the State as an act of retributive justice, a vindication of absolute right and moral law violated by the criminal. Three-Fold Purpose Of Penalty Under The Code: 1. Retribution or expiation – the penalty is commensurate with the gravity of the offense. 2. Correction or reformation – shown by the rules which regulate the execution of the penalties QuickTime™ and a consisting in deprivation of liberty. TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor to seeby this its picture. 3. Social defense are – needed shown inflexible severity to recidivists and habitual delinquents.

ART.21.PENALTIES THAT MAY BE IMPOSED RULE: A felony shall be punishable only by the penalty prescribed by law at the time of its commission. (Art. 21 simply announces the policy of the state as regards punishment of crimes)

REASON: Because a law cannot be rationally obeyed unless it is first shown, and a man cannot be expected to obey an order that has not been given. ƒ It is a guaranty to the citizens of this country that no act will be considered criminal until the Government has made it so by law and has provided a penalty. ƒ Subsidiary penalty for a crime cannot be imposed, if it was “not prescribed by law prior to its commission” (US vs. Macasaet 11Phil.447)

ART.22.RETROACTIVE EFFECT OF PENAL LAWS NOTE: According to Reyes, Art. 22 is NOT applicable to the provisions of the RPC. Its application to the RPC can only be invoked where some former or subsequent law is under consideration. GENERAL RULE: Penal laws are applied prospectively. EXCEPTION: When retrospective application will be favorable to the person guilty of a felony; Provided that: 1. The offender is NOT a habitual criminal (delinquent) under Art. 62(5); 2. The new or amendatory law does NOT provide against its retrospective application. The favorable retroactive effect of a new law may find the defendant in one of the 3 situations: 1. The crime has been committed and the prosecution begins 2. The sentence has been passed but service has not begun 3. The sentence is being carried out HABITUAL DELINQUENT - A person who, within a period of ten years from the date of his release or last conviction of the crimes of serious or less serious physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa, or falsification, is found guilty of any said crimes a third time or oftener. EX POST FACTO LAW - An act which when committed was not a crime, cannot be made so by statute without violating the constitutional inhibition as to ex post facto laws. An ex post facto law is one which: 1. Makes criminal an act done before the passage of the law and which was innocent when done; 2. Aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed; Page 31 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 3. Changes the punishment and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed; 4. Alters the legal rules of evidence, and authorizes conviction upon a less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense; 5. Assumes to regulate civil rights and remedies only, in effect imposing a penalty or deprivation of a right for something which when done was lawful; and 6. Deprives a person accused of a crime of some lawful protection to which he has become entitled, such as the protection of a former conviction or acquittal, or a proclamation of amnesty. ƒ

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3. When there is a saving clause. BILL OF ATTAINDER – A legislative act which inflicts punishment without trial.

ART.23.EFFECT OF PARDON BY THE OFFENDED PARTY– GENERAL RULE: Pardon by the offended party does not extinguish the criminal liability of the offender. REASON: A crime committed is an offense against the State. Only the Chief Executive can pardon the offenders. EXCEPTION: Pardon by the offended party will bar criminal prosecution in the following crimes: ƒ

If retroactive effect of a new law is justified, it shall apply to the defendant even if he is: 1. presently on trial for the offense; 2. has already been sentenced but service of which has not begun; or 3. already serving sentence The retroactive effect of criminal statutes does NOT apply to the culprit’s civil liability.

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REASON: The rights of offended persons or innocent third parties are not within the gift of arbitrary disposal of the State.

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1. When the provisions of the former law are reenacted; or (Note: The right to QuickTime™ punish and offenses committed a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor under an old penal law is not extinguished if the are needed to see this picture. offenses are still punishable in the repealing penal law.) 2. When the repeal is by implication; or (Note: When a penal law, which impliedly repealed an old law, is itself repealed, the repeal of the repealing law revives the prior penal law, unless the language of the repealing statute provides otherwise. If the repeal is absolute, criminal liability is obliterated.)

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The subsequent valid marriage between the offender and the offended party shall extinguish criminal liability or the penalty imposed. In case the legal husband is the offender, subsequent forgiveness by the wife as offended party shall also produce the same effect.

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Pardon by the offended party under Art. 344 is ONLY A BAR to criminal prosecution; it is NOT a ground for extinguishment of criminal liability. It DOES NOT extinguish criminal liability. It is not one of the causes that totally extinguish criminal liability in Art 89 Nevertheless, civil liability may be extinguished by the EXRESS WAIVER of the offended party.Civil liability w/ regard to the interest of the injured party is extinguished by the latter’s express waiver because personal injury may be repaired through indemnity. Waiver must be express. State has no reason to insist on its payment.

AN OFFENSE CAUSES TWO CLASSES OF INJURIES: SOCIAL INJURY

PERSONAL INJURY

Produced by the disturbance and alarm which are the outcome of the offense.

Caused to the victim of the crime who suffered damage either to his person, to his property, to his honor or to her chastity.

Is sought to be repaired through the imposition of the corresponding penalty.

Is repaired indemnity.

The offended party cannot pardon the offender so as to relieve him of the penalty.

The offended party may waive the indemnity and the State has no reason to insist in its payment.

192, PD No. 603) and for the purposes specified therein. 3. Suspension from the employment or public office during the trial or in order to institute proceedings. 4. Fines and other corrective measures which, in the exercise of their administrative or disciplinary powers, superior officials may impose upon their subordinates. 5. Deprivation of rights and the reparations which the civil law may establish in penal form. Reasons why they are not penalties: 1. Because they are not imposed as a result of judicial proceedings. Those mentioned in paragraphs 1, 3 and 4 are merely preventive measures before conviction of offenders. 2. The offender is not subjected to or made to suffer these measures in expiation of or as punishment for a crime. Note: Those in par 1, 3 and 4 are merely preventive measures before the conviction of offenders. ƒ

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The deprivations of rights established in penal form by the civil laws is illustrated in the case of parents who are deprived of their parental authority if found guilty of the crime of corruption of their minor children, in accordance with Art. 332 of the Civil Code.

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The Following Shall Not Be Considered As Penalties: 1. The arrest and temporary detention of accused persons, as well as their detention by reason of insanity or imbecility, or illness requiring their confinement in a hospital. 2. The commitment of a minor to any of the institutions mentioned in Art. 80 (now Art.

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ART. 26: WHEN AFFLICTIVE, CORRECTIONAL, OR LIGHT PENALTY

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Bond to keep the peace is by analogy:

Chapter Three DURATION AND EFFECTS OF PENALTIES

Section One. — Duration of Penalties Art. 27: RECLUSION PERPETUA 1. Reclusión perpetua – 20 years and 1 day to 40 years 2. Reclusión temporal – 12 years and 1 day to 20 years 3. Prisión mayor and temporary disqualification – 6 years and 1 day to 12 years, except when disqualification is an accessory penalty, in which case its duration is that of the principal penalty 4. Prisión correccional, suspensión, and destierro – 6 months and 1 day to 6 years, except when suspensión is an accessory penalty, in which case its duration is that of the principal penalty 5. Arresto mayor – 1 month and 1 day to 6 months Page 34 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 6. Arresto menor – 1 day to 30 days 7. Bond to keep the peace – The period is discretionary on the court. NOTES: 1. Destierro is a principal, divisible and correctional penalty. 2. Cases when destierro imposed: a. Serious physical injuries or death under exceptional circumstances (Art. 247) b. In case of failure to give bond for good behavior (Art. 284) c. As a penalty for the concubine in concubinage (Art. 334) d. In cases where after reducing the penalty by one or more degrees, destierro is the proper penalty. ART. 28: COMPUTATION OF PENALTIES Rules on Computation of Penalties: 1. When the offender is in prison – the duration of the temporary penalties (Permanent Absolute Disqualification, Temporary Absolute Disqualification, detention, suspension) is from the day on which the judgment of conviction becomes final. 2. When the offender is not in prison – the duration of the penalty of deprivation of liberty is from the day that the offender is placed at the disposal of judicial authorities for the enforcement of the penalty 3. The duration of the other penalties – the duration is from the day on w/c the offender commences to serve his sentence NOTES: ƒ Reason for rule (a) – Under Art 24, the arrest and temporary detention of the accused is not considered a penalty. ƒ if in custody, the accused appealed, the service of the sentence should commence and a from the TIFF date ofQuickTime™ the promulgation of the (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. decision of the appellate court, not the trial court’s. ƒ Service in prison begins only on the day the judgment of conviction becomes final. ƒ In cases of temporary penalties, and if the offender is under detention (as when undergoing preventive imprisonment), rule (a) applies. ƒ If he is not under detention (released on bail), rule (c) applies.

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ART. 29: PERIOD OF PREVENTIVE IMPRISONMENT DEDUCTED FROM TERM OF IMPRISONMENT Instances when accused undergoes preventive suspension: 1. offense is non-bailable 2. bailable but can’t furnish bail

Notes: ƒ The full time or 4/5 of the time during which the offenders have undergone preventive suspension shall be deducted from the penalty imposed: ƒ full time: if the detention prisoner agrees voluntarily in writing to abide by the same disciplinary rules imposed upon convicted prisoners ƒ four-fifths of the time: if the detention prisoner does not agree to abide by the same disciplinary rules imposed upon convicted prisoners ƒ In the case of a youthful offender who has been proceeded against under the Child and Youth Welfare Code, he shall be credited in the service of his sentence with the full time of his actual detention, regardless if he agreed to abide by the same disciplinary rules of the institution or not. ƒ Offenders not entitled to be credited with the full time or four-fifths of the time of their preventive imprisonment: ƒ Recidivists or those convicted previously twice or more times of any crime. ƒ Those who, upon being summoned for the execution of their sentence, failed to surrender voluntarily (convicts who failed to voluntarily surrender to serve their penalties under a final judgment, not those who failed or refused to voluntarily surrender after the commission of the crime) ƒ Habitual Delinquents are not entitled to credit of time under preventive imprisonment since he is necessarily a recidivist or has been convicted previously twice or more times of Page 35 of 174

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any crime. Duration of RP is to be computed at 30 years, thus, even if the accused is sentenced to life imprisonment, he is entitled to the full time or 4/5 of the time of preventive suspension Credit is given in the service of sentences consisting of deprivation of liberty (imprisonment and destierro), whether perpetual or temporal. Thus, persons who had undergone preventive imprisonment but the offense is punishable by a fine only would not be given credit. Destierro is considered a “deprivation of liberty.” If the penalty imposed is arresto menor to destierro, the accused who has been in prison for 30 days (arresto menor to 30 days) should be released because although the maximum penalty is destierro (6 months and 1 day to 6 years), the accused sentenced to such penalty does not serve it in prison.

Section Two. — Effects of the penaltiesaccording to their respective nature ART. 30: EFFECTS OF THE PENALTIES OF PERPETUAL OR TEMPORARY ABSOLUTE DISQUALIFICATION NOTES: ƒ The exclusion is a mere disqualification from protection, and not for punishment – the withholding of a privilege, not a denial of a right. ƒ Perpetual absolute disqualification is effective during the lifetime of the convict and even after the service of the sentence. ƒ Temporary absolute disqualification is effective during the term of sentence and is removed after the service of the same. Exceptions: (1) deprivation of the public office or employment; (2) loss of all rights to retirement pay or other pension for any office QuickTime™ and a formerly held. TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are not needed to see this picture. or contemplated ƒ A plebiscite is mentioned in Art.30, par. 2 (deprivation of the right to vote), hence, the offender may vote in that exercise, subject to the provisions of pertinent election laws at the time. Effects of Perpetual and temporary absolute disqualification: 1. Deprivation of any public office or employment of offender

2. Deprivation of the right to vote in any election or to be voted upon 3. Loss of rights to retirement pay or pension All these effects last during the lifetime of the convict and even after the service of the sentence except as regards paragraphs 2 and 3 of the above in connection with Temporary Absolute Disqualification.

ART. 31: EFFECT OF THE PENALTIES OF PERPETUAL OR TEMPORARY SPECIAL DISQUALIFICATION ART. 32: EFFECT OF THE PENALTIES OF PERPETUAL OR TEMPORARY SPECIAL DISQUALIFICATION FOR THE EXERCISE OF THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE NOTE: Temporary disqualification if imposed is an accessory penalty. Its duration is that of the principal penalty. Effects of Perpetual and Temporary Special Disqualification: 1. For public office, profession, or calling a. Deprivation of the office, employment, profession or calling affected b. Disqualification for holding similar offices or employment during the period of disqualification 2. For the exercise of the right of suffrage a. Deprivation of the right to vote or to be elected in an office b. Cannot hold any public office during the period of disqualification ART. 33: EFFECTS OF THE PENALTIES OF SUSPENSION FROM ANY PUBLIC OFFICE, PROFESSION OR CALLING, OR THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE Effects: 1. Disqualification from holding such office or the exercise of such profession or right of suffrage during the term of the sentence 2. Cannot hold another office having similar functions during the period of suspension

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 Effects;Deprivation of the following rights: 1. Parental rights 2. Guardianship over the ward 3. Marital authority 4. Right to manage property and to dispose of the same by acts inter vivos Civil Interdiction is an accessory penalty to the following principal penalties: 1. If death penalty is commuted to life imprisonment 2. Reclusion perpetua 3. Reclusion temporal *He can dispose of such property by will or donation mortis causa ART. 35: EFFECTS OF BOND TO KEEP THE PEACE

2. if the facts and circumstances of the case show that the purpose of the President is to precisely restore the rights i.e., granting absolute pardon after election to a post (mayor) but before the date fixed by law for assuming office to enable him to assume the position in deference to the popular will Pardon by the offended party – does not extinguish criminal liability; may include offended party waiving civil indemnity and it should be done before the institution of the criminal prosecution and extended to both offenders.

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QuickTime™ and a in general terms GENERAL RULE: Pardon granted TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed topenalties. see this picture. does not include accessory Exceptions: 1. if the absolute pardon is granted after the term of imprisonment has expired, it removes all that is left of the consequences of conviction. However, if the penalty is life imprisonment and after the service of 30 years, a pardon is granted, the pardon does not remove the accessory penalty of absolute perpetual disqualification

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PARDON BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE (ART. 36) Any crime, unless otherwise provided by or subject to conditions in the Constitution or the laws Extinguishes criminal liability

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Does not extinguish criminal liability although it may constitute a bar to the prosecution of the offender Offended party can waive the civil liability Only before the institution of the criminal action In adultery and concubinage, must include both offenders Cannot validly be made subject to a condition

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NOTE: ƒ Costs (expenses of the litigation) are chargeable to the accused in case of conviction. In case of acquittal, the costs are de oficio, each party bearing his own expense. ƒ No costs are allowed against the Republic of the Philippines, until law provides the contrary. ƒ The payment of costs is fully discretionary on the Court. ART. 38: PECUNIARY LIABILITIES; ORDER OF PAYMENT Pecuniary liabilities of persons criminally liable, in the following order: 1. The reparation of the damage caused 2. Indemnification of the consequential damages 3. Fine 4. Costs of proceedings NOTES: ƒ It is applicable in case the properties of the offender are not sufficient for the payment of all his pecuniary liabilities. Hence, if the offender has insufficient or no property, there is no use for Art 38. ƒ Order of payment is mandatory. Ex. Juan inflicted serious physical injuries against Pedro and took the latter’s watch and ring. He incurred P500 worth of hospital bills and failed to earn P300 worth of salary. Given that Juan only has P1000 worth of property not exempt from execution, it shall first be applied to the payment of the watch and ring which cannot be returned, as such is covered by “reparation of the damage caused,” thus, no. 1 in the order of payment. The 500 and 300 are covered by “indemnification of the consequential damage,” thus, no. 2 in the QuickTime™ and a order of payment. TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.

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RULES AS TO SUBSIDIARY PENALTY 1. If the penalty imposed is prisión correccional or arresto and fine – subsidiary imprisonment is not to exceed 1/3 of the term of the sentence, and in no case to continue for more than one year. Fraction or part of a day, not counted. 2. When the penalty imposed is fine only – subsidiary imprisonment is: ƒ not to exceed 6 months – if the culprit is prosecuted for grave or less grave felony, and ƒ not to exceed 15 days – if prosecuted for light felony. 3. When the penalty imposed is higher than prisión correccional – no subsidiary imprisonment. 4. If the penalty imposed is not to be executed by confinement, but of fixed duration – subsidiary penalty shall consist in the same deprivations as those of the principal penalty, under the same rules as nos. 1, 2 and 3 above. 5. In case the financial circumstances of the convict should improve, he shall pay the fine, notwithstanding the fact that the convict suffered subsidiary personal liability therefor. WHERE NO SUBSIDIARY PENALTY SHALL BE IMPOSED: 1. The penalty imposed is higher than prisión correccional or 6 years, 2. For non-payment of reparation or indemnification, 3. For non-payment of costs, and 4. Where the penalty imposed is a fine and another penalty without fixed duration, like Page 38 of 174

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ART. 40: DEATH; ITS ACCESSORY PENALTIES ART. 41: RECLUSION PERPETUA AND RECLUSION TEMPORAL; THEIR ACCESSORY PENALTIES ART. 42: PRISION MAYOR; ITS ACCESSORY PENALTIES ART. 43: PRISION CORRECCIONAL; ITS ACCESSORY PENALTIES ART. 44: ARRESTO; ITS ACCESSORY PENALTIES Outline Of Accessory Penalties Inherent In Principal Penalties 1. Death, if not executed because of commutation or pardon a. perpetual absolute disqualification b. civil interdiction during 30 years (if not expressly remitted in the pardon) 2. Reclusion Perpetua and Reclusion Temporal a. civil interdiction for life or during the sentence b. perpetual absolute disqualification (unless expressly remitted in the pardon) 3. Prision Mayor a. temporary absolute disqualification b. perpetual special disqualification from suffage (unless expressly remitted in the pardon) 4. Prision Correccional a. suspension from public office, profession or calling b. perpetual special disqualification QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) from suffrage decompressor if the duration of the are needed to see this picture. imprisonment exceeds 18 months (unless expressly remitted in the pardon) NOTES: ƒ The accessory penalties in Art 40-44 must be suffered by the offender, although pardoned as to the principal penalties. To be relieved of these penalties, they must be expressly remitted in the pardon.

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LIFE IMPRISONMENT

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ART. 45: CONFISCATION AND FORFEITURE OF THE PROCEEDS OR INSTRUMENTS OF THE CRIME 1. Every penalty imposed carries with it the forfeiture of the proceeds of the crime and the instruments or tools used in the commission of the crime. 2. The proceeds and instruments/tools of the crime are confiscated in favor of the government. rd 3. The property of 3 persons (not liable for the offense) is not subject to confiscation and Page 39 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 forfeiture. 4. Property not subject of lawful commerce (whether it belongs to the accused or a 3rd person) shall be destroyed. NOTES: ƒ There cannot be confiscation or forfeiture unless there’s a criminal case filed, tried and accused is convicted. ƒ Third person must be indicted to effect confiscation of his property. ƒ Instruments of the crime belonging to an innocent 3rd person may be recovered. ƒ Confiscation can be ordered only if the property is submitted in evidence or placed at the disposal of the court. ƒ When the order of forfeiture has already become final, the articles which were forfeited can not be returned, even in case of an acquittal. ƒ There must be conviction by final judgment. However, even if the accused is acquitted on reasonable doubt, but the instruments or proceeds are contraband, the judgment of acquittal shall order their forfeiture for appropriate disposition. ƒ Confiscation & forfeiture are additional penalties. When the penalty imposed did not include the confiscation of the goods involved, the subsequent confiscation & forfeiture of said goods would be an additional penalty, amounting to an increase of the penalty already imposed, thereby placing the accused in double jeopardy. In case the accused appeals, confiscation and forfeiture not ordered by the trial court may be imposed by the appellate court ƒ The government can not appeal the modification of a sentence if the defendant did not appeal. But if the defendant appeals, it removes all bars to the review and correction of the penalty imposed by the court below, even if an increase thereof should be the result QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.

When Art. 45 cannot apply: 1. The instruments belong to innocent third parties 2. Such properties have not been placed under the jurisdiction of the court 3. When it is legally or physically impossible.

Chapter Four APPLICATION OF PENALTIES

Section One. — Rules for the application of penalties to the persons criminally liable and for the graduation of the same.

ART. 46: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED UPON PRINCIPALS IN GENERAL GENERAL RULE: The penalty prescribed by law in general terms shall be imposed: 1. upon the principals 2. for consummated felony EXCEPTION: when the law fixes a penalty for the frustrated or attempted felony. Whenever it is believed that the penalty lower by one or two degrees corresponding to said acts of execution is not proportionate to the wrong done, the law fixes a distinct penalty for the principal in the frustrated or attempted felony. The Graduation Of Penalties Refers To: 1. By degree a. stages of execution (consummated, frustrated, attempted) b. degree of the criminal participation of the offender (principal, accomplice, accessory) 2. By period a. (minimum, medium, maximum) refers to the proper period of the penalty w/c should be imposed when aggravating or mitigating circumstances attend the commission of the crime

ART. 47: IN WHAT CASES THE DEATH PENALTY SHALL NOT BE IMPOSED Death Penalty Not Imposed In The Following Cases: 1. under age - when the offender is under 18 yrs of age at the time of commission. ƒ Why? - Because minority is always a mitigating circumstance 2. over age - when the person is more than 70 years old at time RTC sentenced him 3. no court majority - when upon appeal or Page 40 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 automatic review of the case by the SC, the vote of eight members is not obtained for the imposition of death JUSTIFICATION FOR THE DEATH PENALTY: social defense and exemplarity. Not considered cruel and unusual because it does not involve torture or lingering death. CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY DEATH UNDER THE DEATH PENALTY LAW (RA 7659) 1. Treason 2. Qualified Piracy 3. Qualified Bribery 4. Parricide 5. Murder 6. Infanticide 7. Kidnapping and Serious Illegal Detention 8. Robbery – with Homicide, Rape, Intentional Mutilation, or Arson 9. Rape – with the use of a deadly weapon, or by two or more persons - where the victim became insane - with Homicide 10. Qualified Rape 11. Destructive Arson 12. Plunder 13. Violation of certain provisions of the Dangerous Drugs Act 14. Carnapping

ART.48: PENALTY FOR COMPLEX CRIMES COMPLEX CRIME – although there actually are two or more crimes, the law treats them as constituting only one- as there is only one criminal intent. Only one information need be filed. 2 Kinds Of Complex Crimes: 1. compound crime – single act constitutes 2 or more grave or less grave felonies Requisites: QuickTime™ and a TIFFonly (Uncompressed) decompressor a. that one single act is performed are needed to see this picture. by the offender b. that the single act produces i. 2 or more grave felonies ii. one or more grave and one or more less grave felonies iii. 2 or more less grave felonies 2. complex crime proper – when an offense is a necessary means for committing another

Requisites: 1. that at least 2 offenses are committed 2. that one or some of the offenses must be necessary to commit the other 3. that both or all the offenses must be punished under the same statute No Single Act In The Following Cases: 1. when 2 persons are killed one after the other, by different acts, although these 2 killings were the result of a single criminal impulse. The different acts must be considered as distinct crimes. 2. when the acts are wholly different, not only in themselves, but also because they are directed against 2 different persons, as when one fires his gun twice in succession, killing one and injuring the other. Light felonies produced by the same act should be treated and punished as separate offenses, or may be absorbed by the grave felony. NOTES: ƒ When in obedience to an order, several accused simultaneously shot many persons, w/o evidence how many each killed, there is only a single offense, there being a single criminal impulse. ƒ For the attainment of a single purpose w/c constitutes an offense, various acts are executed, such acts must be considered only as one offense. (Gregorio does not agree with this.) ƒ When a complex crime is charged and one offense is not proven, the accused can be convicted of the other. ƒ There is no complex crime of arson w/ homicide. ƒ Art 48 is applicable to crimes through negligence. ƒ Kidnapping the victim to murder him in a secluded place – ransom wasn’t paid so victim was killed. Kidnapping was a necessary means to commit murder. But where the victim was taken from his home but it was solely for the purpose of killing him and not for detaining him illegally or for the purpose of ransom, the crime is simple murder. ƒ “Necessary means” does not mean “indispensable means”. Indispensable would mean it is an element of the crime. The crime can be committed by another mean. Page 41 of 174

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The means actually employed (another crime) was merely to facilitate and insure the consummation of the crime. It is not a complex crime when trespass to dwelling is a direct means to commit a grave offense. Like rape, there is no complex crime of trespass to dwelling with rape. Trespass will be considered as aggravating (unlawful entry or breaking part of a dwelling) When the offender had in his possession the funds w/c he misappropriated, the falsification of a public or official document involving said funds is a separate offense. But when the offender had to falsify a public or official document to obtain possession of the funds w/c he misappropriated, the falsification is a necessary means to commit the malversation. There is no complex crime of rebellion w/ murder, arson, robbery or other common crimes. They are mere ingredients of the crime of rebellion – absorbed already. (according to Ortega, complex) When 2 crimes produced by a single act are respectively within the exclusive jurisdiction of 2 courts of different jurisdiction, the court of higher jurisdiction shall try the complex crime. Art. 48 is intended to favor the culprit. The penalty for complex crime is the penalty for the most serious crime, the same to be applied in its maximum period. If the different crimes resulting from one single act are punished w/ the same penalty, the penalty for any one of them shall be imposed, the same to be applied in the maximum period. The same rule shall be observed when an offense is a necessary means to commit the other. A complex crime of the second form may be committed by two persons. But when one of the offenses, as a means to commit the other, was committed by one of the accused by reckless imprudence, the accused who committed the crime by reckless imprudence is liable for his acts QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor only. are needed to see this picture. When two felonies constituting a complex crime are punishable by imprisonment and fine, respectively, only the penalty of imprisonment shall be imposed. Reason: Fine is not included in the list of penalties in the order of severity and it is the last in the graduated scales in Art. 71. When a single act constitutes two grave or less grave or one grave and another less grave, and the penalty for one is

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imprisonment while that for the other is fine, the severity of the penalty for the more serious crime should not be judged by the classification of each of the penalties involved, but by the nature of the penalties. In the order of severity of the penalties, arresto mayor and arresto menor are considered more severe than destierro and arresto menor is higher in degree than destierro.

There is NO COMPLEX CRIME in the following: 1. In case of continuing crimes 2. When one offense is committed to conceal the other 3. When the other crime is an indispensable part or an element of the other offenses as defined 4. Where one of the offenses is penalized by a special law 5. When the law provides one single penalty for special complex crime: a. Robbery with Homicide b. Robbery with Rape c. Rape with Homicide d. Kidnapping with Serious Physical Injuries e. Kidnapping with Homicide PLURALITY OF CRIMES – consists in the successive execution by the same individual of different criminal acts upon any of which no conviction has yet been declared. Kinds Of Plurality Of Crimes: 1. Formal or Ideal – only one criminal liability. Formal or ideal crimes are further divided into three groups, where a person committing multiple crimes is punished with only one penalty: a. when the offender commits any of the complex crimes defined in Art. 48 b. when the law specifically fixes a single penalty for 2 or more offenses committed: robbery w/ homicide, kidnapping w/ serious physical injuires c. when the offender commits continued crimes 2. Real Or Material – there are different crimes in law as well as in the conscience of the offender. In such cases, the offender shall be punished for each and every offense that he committed.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 ART 49 Lesser penalty to be imposed in its maximum period

ART 48 Penalty for the more serious crime shall be imposed in its maximum period

CONTINUED CRIME – refers to a single crime consisting of a series of acts but all arising from one criminal resolution. Although there is a series of acts, there is only one crime committed, so only one penalty shall be imposed. Ex of continued crimes: a. A collector of a commercial firm misappropriates for his personal use several amounts collected by him from different persons. There is only one crime because the different and successive appropriations are but the different moments during w/c one criminal resolution arises. b. Juan steals 2 books belonging to 2 different persons. He commits only one crime because there is unity of thought in the criminal purpose of the offender. NOTE: A continued crime is not a complex crime, as the offender does not perform a single act but a series of acts. Therefore: a. penalty not to be imposed in the maximum b. no actual provision punishing continued crime – It is a principle applied in connection with 2 or more crimes committed with a single intention. NOTE: A continued (continuous or continuing) crime is different from a transitory crime. Transitory crime is “moving crime”.

REAL/MATERIAL PLURALITY There is a series of acts performed by the offender

CONTINUED CRIME Same

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ART. 49: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED UPON THE PRINCIPALS WHEN THE CRIME COMMITTED IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT INTENDED

PLURALITY OF CRIMES No conviction of the crimes committed

RECIDIVISM There must be conviction by final judgment of the first prior offense

RULES: 1. If the penalty for the felony committed be higher than the penalty for the offense which the accused intended to commit, the lower penalty shall be imposed in its maximum period. 2. If the penalty for the felony committed be lower than the penalty for the offense which the accused intended to commit, the lower penalty shall be imposed in its maximum period. 3. If the act committed also constitutes an attempt or frustration of another crime, and the law prescribes a higher penalty for either of the latter, the penalty for the attempted or frustrated crime shall be imposed in its maximum period. NOTES: ƒ Art. 49 has reference to the provision in the st 1 par of Art .4 which provides that criminal liability shall be incurred “by any person committing a felony although the wrongful act done be different from that which he intended.” ƒ Art. 49 is applicable only in cases when there is a mistake in identity of the victim of the crime (error in personae) and the penalty for the crime committed is different from that for the crime intended to be committed. ƒ Art. 49 also has no application where a more serious consequence not intended by the offender befalls the same person. ƒ In Art. 49, pars. 1 and 2, the lower penalty in its maximum period is always imposed. ƒ In Par. 3 the penalty for the attempted or frustrated crime shall be imposed in its maximum period. This rule is not necessary and may well be covered by Art. 48, in view of the fact that the same act also constitutes an attempt or a frustration of another crime.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 Art. 50: Penalty to be imposed upon principals of a frustrated crime Art. 51: Penalty to be imposed upon principals of attempted crimes Art. 52: Penalty to be imposed upon accomplices in consummated crime Art. 53: Penalty to be imposed upon accessories to the commission of a consummated felony Art. 54: Penalty to imposed upon accomplices in a frustrated crime Art. 55: Penalty to be imposed upon accessories of a frustrated crime Art. 56: Penalty to be imposed upon accomplices in an attempted crime Art. 57: Penalty to be imposed upon accessories of an attempted crime

APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 50 TO 57 Participation

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NOTES: ƒ Art. 50-57 are not applicable when the law specifically prescribes the penalty for the frustrated and attempted felony or that to be imposed upon the accomplices and accessories. (examples: qualified seduction, flight to enemy country, kidnapping) ƒ Degree – one whole penalty, one entire penalty or one unit of the penalties enumerated in the graduated scales provided for in Art. 71 ƒ Period – one of 3 equal portions, min/med/max of a divisible penalty. A period of a divisible penalty when prescribed by the QuickTime™ and a (Uncompressed) Code as aTIFF penalty for decompressor a felony, is in itself a are needed to see this picture. degree.

Distinctions between Degree and Period Degree

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Refers to the duration of the penalty consisting of the maximum, medium, and minimum, after considering the presence or absence of aggravating circumstances

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NOTE: The rules provided in Arts. 53, 55 and 57 do not apply if the felony is light because accessories are not liable for the same. ART. 58: ADDITIONAL PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED UPON CERTAIN ACCESSORIES NOTE: Art. 58 is limited only to grave and less grave felonies since it is not possible to have accessories liable for light felonies. It is further limited to those whose participation in the crime is characterized by the misuse of public office or authority. Additional Penalties for Public Officers who are accessories: 1. Absolute Perpetual Disqualification, if the principal offender is guilty of a grave felony 2. Absolute temporary disqualification, if the principal offender is guilty of less grave felony

ART. 59: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED IN CASE OF FAILURE TO COMMIT THE CRIME BECAUSE THE MEANS EMPLOYED OR THE AIMS SOUGHT ARE IMPOSSIBLE NOTES: ƒ Basis for the imposition of proper penalty in impossible crimes: social danger and degree of criminality shown by the offender ƒ The penalty for impossible crime is arresto mayor (imprisonment of 1 month and 1 day to 6 months) or fine ranging from 200-500 pesos. ƒ Art. 59 is limited to grave and less grave Page 44 of 174

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felonies. However, considering Article 4, this article is actually limited to offenses against persons or property.

ART. 60: EXCEPTION TO THE RULES ESTABLISHED IN ARTICLES 50 TO 57 Two cases where the accomplice is punished with the same penalty imposed upon the principal: 1. ascendants, guardians, curators, teachers and any person who, by abuse of authority or confidential relationship, shall cooperate as accomplices in the crimes of rape, acts of lasciviousness, seduction, corruption of minors, white slave trade or abduction. 2. one who furnished the place for the perpetration of the crime of slight illegal detention NOTE: Accessory punished as principal: Art 142 – punishes an accessory for knowingly concealing certain evil practices

Cases where penalty imposed on accessories are one degree lower instead of two degrees: 1. knowingly using counterfeited seal or forged signature or stamp of the President of the Republic 2. illegal possession and use of false treasury or bank note 3. use of a falsified document 4. use of a falsified dispatch

ART. 61: RULES FOR GRADUATING PENALTIES The rules provided in this Article should also apply in determining the minimum of the Indeterminate Sentence Law (ISL). It also applies in lowering the QuickTime™ a penalty by one orTIFFtwo degreesand by reason of the (Uncompressed) decompressor are neededmitigating to see this picture.circumstance, or presence of the privileged when the penalty is divisible and there are two or more mitigating circumstances and there are no aggravating circumstances. GRADUATED SCALE IN ART. 71 Indivisible Penalties: 1. Death 2. Reclusion Perpetua

Divisible Penalties: (maximum, minimum) 1. Reclusion Temporal 2. Prision Correcional 3. Arresto Mayor 4. Destierro 5. Arresto Menor 6. Public Censure 7. Fine

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RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN LOWERING THE PENALTY BY ONE OR TWO DEGREES Rule No. 1: when the penalty is single and indivisible (ex. RP), the penalty next lower shall be reclusion temporal. Rule No. 2: 1. when the penalty is composed of two indivisible penalties; or 2. when the penalty is composed of one or more divisible penalties to be imposed to their full extent the penalty next lower in degree shall be that immediately following the lesser of the penalties prescribed Rule No. 3: when the penalty is composed of 1 or 2 indivisible penalties and the maximum period of a divisible penalty Ex. penalty for murder is reclusion temporal to death. The point of reference will be on the proper divisible penalty which is RT. rd

Under the 3 rule, the penalty next lower to RT is composed of the medium and minimum periods of RT and the max of prision mayor. Rules 4 and 5: 1. if the penalty prescribed in the Code consists of three periods corresponding to different divisible penalties, the penalty next lower is that consisting in the three periods down the scale 2. if the penalty prescribed in the Code consists of two periods, the penalty next lower is that consisting in two periods down the scale 3. if the penalty prescribed in the Code consists in only one period, the penalty next lower is the next period down in the scale NOTE: Mitigating and Aggravating circumstances are first disregarded in the application of the rules for graduating penalties. It is only after the penalty next lower in degree is already determined that the mitigating and aggravating circumstances should be Page 45 of 174

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Habitual delinquency has the effect, not only of increasing the penalty because of recidivism which is generally implied in habitual delinquency, but also of imposing an additional penalty. Ten year period to be computed from the time of last release or conviction Subsequent crime must be committed after conviction of the former crime. Cases still pending are not to be taken into consideration. o

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REQUISITES Of Habitual Delinquency: 1. that the offender had been convicted of any of the crimes of serious or less serious physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa or falsification 2. that after conviction or after serving his sentence, he again committed, and, within 10 years from his last release of first conviction, he was again convicted of any of the said crimes for the second time 3. that after his conviction of, or after serving sentence for the second offense, he again committed, and, within 10 years from his last release or last conviction, he was again convicted of any of said offenses, the third time or oftener Rulings on Habitual Delinquency: 1. The law on habitual delinquency does not contemplate the exclusion from the computation of prior conviction those falling outside the 10-year period immediately preceding the crime for which the defendant is being tried. 2. Ten-year period is counted not from the date of commission of the subsequent offense but from the date of conviction thereof in relation Page 46 of 174

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to the date of his last release or last conviction. When an offender has committed several crimes mentioned in the definition of habitual delinquent, without being first convicted of any of them before committing the others, he is not a habitual delinquent. Convictions on the same day or at about the same time are considered as one only (days, weeks..). Crimes committed on the same date, although convictions on different dates are considered as one. Previous convictions are considered every time a new offense is committed. Commissions of those crimes need not be consummated. Habitual delinquency applies to accomplice and accessories. A crime committed during the minority of the offender is not counted because proceedings as regards that crime are suspended. Imposition of additional penalty is mandatory and constitutional. Modifying circumstances are applicable to additional penalty. Habitual delinquency is not a crime. It is simply a fact or circumstance which if present gives rise to the imposition of additional penalty. Penalty for habitual delinquency is a real penalty that determines jurisdiction. A habitual delinquent is necessarily a recidivist. In imposing the additional penalty, recidivism is not aggravating. The additional penalty must be imposed in its minimum. An offender can be a habitual delinquent without being a recidivist, when no two of the crimes committed are embraced in the same title of the Code. (Reyes)

NOTES: ƒ In no case shall the total penalties imposed upon the offender exceed 30 years. QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor ƒ The imposition of the additional penalties on are needed to see this picture. habitual delinquents are constitutional, it is simply a punishment on future crimes on account of the criminal propensities of the accused. ƒ The imposition of such additional penalties are mandatory. ƒ Habitual delinquency applies at any stage of the execution because subjectively, the offender reveals the same degree of depravity or perversity as the one who

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ART. 63: RULES FOR THE APPLICATION OF INDIVISIBLE PENALTIES Rules for the application of indivisible penalties: 1. Penalty is single and indivisible – applied regardless of the presence of aggravating and mitigating circumstances 2. Penalty composed of two indivisible penalties a. One aggravating circumstance present – higher penalty b. One mitigating circumstance present – lower penalty c. Some mitigating circumstances present and no aggravating – lower penalty d. Mitigating and Aggravating Circumstances are present – basis in number and importance NOTES: ƒ Art 63 applies only when the penalty prescribed by the Code is either one indivisible penalty or 2 indivisible penalties. ƒ Par.4: the moral value rather than the numerical weight shall be taken into account. GENERAL RULE: When the penalty is composed of 2 indivisible penalties, the penalty cannot be lowered by one degree, no matter how many mitigating circumstances are present EXCEPTION: In cases of privileged mitigating circumstances

ART. 64: RULES FOR THE APPLICATION OF PENALTIES WHICH CONTAIN THREE PERIODS Rules For The Application Of Divisible Penalties: 1. No aggravating and no mitigating circumstances – medium period 2. One mitigating circumstance – minimum period 3. One aggravating circumstance – maximum period 4. Mitigating and aggravating circumstance offset each other and according to relative Page 47 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 weight 5. 2 or more mitigating without any aggravating circumstance – one degree lower NOTES: ƒ Art. 64 applies when the penalty has 3 periods because they are divisible. If the penalty is composed of 3 different penalties, each forms a period according to Art. 77 ƒ Par. 4: the mitigating circumstances must be ordinary, not privileged. The aggravating circumstances must be generic or specific, not qualifying or inherent. ƒ the court has discretion to impose the penalty within the limits fixed by law ƒ Art. 64 not applicable when the penalty is indivisible or prescribed by special law or a fine ƒ Cases where the attending aggravating or mitigating circumstances are not considered in the imposition of penalties: ƒ Penalty that is single and indivisible ƒ Felonies through negligence ƒ Where the penalty is only a fine imposed by an ordinance (subject to discretion of court – see Article 66) ƒ Penalty is prescribed by a special law ART. 65: RULE IN CASES IN WHICH THE PENALTY IS NOT COMPOSED OF THREE PERIODS Computations: Example: Prision Mayor (6 years, 1 day to 12 years) 1. subtract the minimum (disregard 1 day) from the maximum 12 years – 6 years = 6 years 2. Divide the difference by 3. 6 years / 3 = 2 years 3. Use the minimumQuickTime™ (6 years and aand 1 day) as the TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor minimum of the minimum period. Then add are needed to see this picture. the 2 years (disregarding the 1 day) to the minimum to get the maximum of the minimum period. 6 years (minimum of the minimum) + 2 years (difference) ------------------------------------------8 years (maximum of the minimum). Therefore, minimum period of prision mayor = 6 years 1 day to 8 years

4. Use the maximum of the minimum period as the minimum of the medium period and add 1 day to distinguish from the minimum period. Then add 2 years to the minimum of the medium (disregarding the 1 day) to get the maximum of the medium period. 8 years (minimum of the medium) + 2 years (difference) ------------------------------------------10 years (maximum of the medium) Therefore, medium period of prision mayor = 8 years 1 day to 10 years 5. use the maximum of the medium period as the minimum of the maximum pd, and add 1 day to distinguish it from the maximum of the medium period. Then add 2 years to the minimum of the maximum pd (disregarding the 1 day) to get the maximum of the maximum period) 10 years (maximum of the medium) + 2 years (difference) ---------------------------------------------12 years (maximum of the maximum) Therefore, maximum period of prision mayor = 10 years 1 day to 12 years *Computation above is applicable to all others except to arresto mayor.

Example: Prision Mayor minimum (6 years 1 day to 8 years) only 1. Subtract minimum from the maximum. 8 years – 6 years = 2 years 2. Divide the difference by 3. 2 years / 3 = 8 months 3. Use the minimum of the given example as the minimum period. Then to get to get the maximum of the minimum, add the 8 months. 6 years + 8 months = 6 years and 8 months Therefore, minimum of prision mayor minimum = 6 years 1 day to 6 years 8 months 4. Use the maximum of the minimum as the minimum of the medium period. Add 1 day to distinguish it from the maximum of the minimum. Add the 8 months and this Page 48 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 becomes the maximum of the medium 6 years 8 months + 8 months = 7 years 4 months Therefore, the medium period of prision mayor minimum = 6 years, 8 months 1 day to 7 years, 4 months 5. Use the maximum of the medium as the minimum period of the maximum period and add 1 day to distinguish. Add the 8 months to get the maximum of this maximum 7 years 4, months + 8 months = 8 years Therefore, maximum of prision mayor = 7 years, 4 months, 1 day to 8 years

ART. 66: IMPOSITION OF FINES

1. The court can fix any amount of the fine within the limits established by law. 2. Court must consider the following in imposing the fines: a. mitigating and aggravating circumstances b. more particularly, the wealth and means of the culprit 3. The following may also be considered by the court: a. the gravity of the crime committed b. the heinousness of its perpetration c. the magnitude of its effects on the offender’s victims.

NOTE: When the minimum of the fine is not fixed, the court shall have the discretion, provided it does not exceed the amount authorized by law.

2. less grave felony – arresto mayor min to arresto mayor medium

ART. 68: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED UPON A PERSON UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE NOTE: Art. 68 applies to such minor if his application for suspension of sentence is disapproved or if while in the reformatory institution he becomes incorrigible, in which case he shall be returned to the court for the imposition of the proper penalty. Art. 68 provides for 2 privileged mitigating circumstances: 1. If the act is attended by two or more mitigating circumstances and no aggravating circumstance, the penalty being divisible, a minor over 15 but under 18 may still get a penalty two degrees lower. 2. under 15 but over 9 and has acted w/ discretion: 2 degrees lower 3. under 18 but over 15: 1 degree lower

ART. 69: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED WHEN THE CRIME COMMITTED IS NOT WHOLLY EXCUSABLE NOTE: Penalty to be imposed when the crime committed is not wholly excusable:1 or 2 degrees lower if the majority of the conditions for justification or exemption in the cases provided in Arts. 11 and 12 are present.

ART. 70: SUCCESSIVE SERVICE OF SENTENCE ART. 67: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED WHEN NOT ALL THE REQUISITES OF EXEMPTION OF THE FOURTH CIRCUMSTANCE OF ARTICLE 12 ARE PRESENT

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NOTES: The Three-Fold Rule 1. Maximum duration of the convict’s sentence: 3 times the most severe penalty imposed 2. Maximum duration: shall not exceed 40 yrs 3. Subsidiary imprisonment: This shall be excluded in computing for the maximum duration. * The three-fold rule shall apply only when the convict is to serve 4 or more sentences successively.

NOTE: If these conditions are not all present, then the following penalties shall be imposed: 1. grave felony – arresto mayor max to prision correcional minimum

Different Systems Of Penalty (Relative To The Execution Of Two Or More Penalties Imposed The Same Accused) 1. Material accumulation system - No

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 limitation whatsoever, and accordingly, all the penalties for all the violations were imposed even if they reached beyond the natural span of human life. 2. Juridical accumulation system - Limited to not more than three-fold the length of time corresponding to the most severe and in no case to exceed 40 years. This is followed in our jurisdiction. 3. Absorption system - The lesser penalties are absorbed by the graver penalties.

ART. 71: GRADUATED SCALES

ART. 72: PREFERENCE IN THE PAYMENT OF THE CIVIL LIABILITIES

To get the lower degree: 1. Max: reduce by one-fourth 2. Min: the same ART. 76: LEGAL PERIOD OF DURATION OF DIVISIBLE PENALTIES ART. 77: WHEN THE PENALTY IS A COMPLEX ONE COMPOSED OF THREE DISTINCT PENALTIES NOTE: If there are 3 distinct penalties; there shall be a minimum, a medium and a maximum. Ex: Reclusion temporal max to death

Chapter Five EXECUTION AND SERVICE OF PENALTIES

NOTE: The penalties shall be satisfied according to the chronological order of the dates of the final judgment. (Art. 70) Section One. — General Provisions Section Three. — Provisions common in the last two preceding sections

ART. 73: PRESUMPTION IN REGARD TO THE IMPOSITION OF ACCESSORY PENALTIES NOTE: Accessory penalties are deemed imposed with the principal penalty. However, the subsidiary imprisonment must be expressly stated in the decision, as it is not considered an accessory penalty.

ART. 74: PENALTY HIGHER THAN RECLUSION PERPETUA IN CERTAIN CASES NOTE: If the decision or law says higher than QuickTime™ and a reclusion perpetua TIFF or (Uncompressed) 2 degreesdecompressor higher than reclusion are needed to see this picture. temporal, then the penalty imposed is reclusion perpetua or reclusion temporal as the case may be, and not death. Death must be designated by name. However, for the other penalties, this does not apply.

ART. 78: WHEN AND HOW A PENALTY IS TO BE EXECUTED NOTES: ƒ Only a penalty by final judgment can be executed. Judgment is final if the accused has not appealed within 15 days or he has expressly waived in writing that he will not appeal. ƒ There could be no subsidiary liability if it was not expressly ordered in the judgment. ART. 79: SUSPENSION OF THE EXECUTION AND SERVICE OF THE PENALTIES IN CASE OF INSANITY Cases of insanity: 1. After final sentence, suspend the sentence regarding the personal penalties. 2. If he recovers, the sentence is executed unless it has prescribed. 3. The payment of civil of pecuniary liabilities shall not be suspended.

Ex: the penalty for crime X is 2 degrees lower than RP. The penalty imposed is prision mayor.

ART. 75: INCREASING OR REDUCING THE PENALTY OF FINE BY ONE OR MORE DEGREES

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 INDETERMINATE SENTENCE LAW Act No. 4103 as amended by Act No. 4225

- It applies to both violations of Revised Penal Code and special laws, and is based on the penalty actually imposed. Indeterminate sentence is mandatory where imprisonment would exceed one year. IF THE PENALTY IS IMPOSED BY THE RPC: 1. The Maximum Term – is that which could be properly imposed under the RPC, considering the aggravating and mitigating circumstances. 2. The MinimumTerm – is within the range of the penalty one degree lower than that prescribed by the RPC, without considering the circumstances. ƒ BUT when there is a privileged mitigating circumstance, so that the penalty has to be lowered by one degree, the STARTING POINT for determining the minimum term of the indeterminate penalty is the penalty next lower than that prescribed by the Code for the offense. IF THE PENALTY IS IMPOSED BY SPECIAL PENAL LAW 1. The Maximum Term – must not exceed the maximum term fixed by said law. 2. The Minimum Term – must not be less than the minimum term prescribed by the same. ƒ

For SPECIAL LAWS, it is anything within the inclusive range of the prescribed penalty. Courts are given discretion in the imposition of the indeterminate penalty. The aggravating and mitigating circumstances are not considered unless the special law adopts the same terminology for penalties as those used in the RPC (such as reclusión perpetua and the like).

WHEN BENEFIT OF THE ISL IS NOT APPLICABLE: QuickTime™ and a The IndeterminateTIFF Sentence shall not apply (Uncompressed)Law decompressor are needed to see this picture. to the following persons: 1. sentenced to death penalty or life imprisonment 2. treason, or conspiracy or proposal to commit treason 3. misprision of treason, rebellion, sedition or espionage 4. piracy 5. habitual delinquents 6. escaped from confinement, or evaded

sentence 7. granted with conditional pardon by the President, but violated the terms thereof 8. maximum term of imprisonment does not exceed 1 year 9. sentenced to the penalty of destierro or suspension only RELEASE OF THE PRISONER ON PAROLE The Board of Pardons and Parole may authorize the release of a prisoner on parole, after he shall have served the minimum penalty imposed on him, provided that: 1. Such prisoner is fitted by his training for release, 2. There is reasonable probability that he will live and remain at liberty without violating the law, 3. Such release will not be incompatible with the welfare of society. ENTITLEMENT TO FINAL RELEASE AND DISCHARGE If during the period of surveillance such paroled prisoner shall: (a) show himself to be a law abiding citizen and, (b) shall not violate any law, the Board may issue a final certification in his favor, for his final release and discharge. SANCTION FOR VIOLATION OF CONDITIONS OF THE PAROLE When the paroled prisoner shall violate any of the conditions of his parole: (a) the Board may issue an order for his arrest, and thereafter, (b) the prisoner shall serve the remaining unexpired portion of the maximum sentence for which he was originally committed to prison. REASONS FOR FIXING THE MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TERMS IN THE INDETERMINATE SENTENCE The minimum and maximum terms in the IS must be fixed, because they are the basis for the following: 1. Whenever a prisoner has: (a) served the MINIMUM penalty imposed on him, and (b) is fit for release of the prisoner on parole, upon terms and conditions prescribed by the Board. 2. But when the paroled prisoner violates any of the conditions of his parole during the period of surveillance, he may be rearrested to serve the remaining unexpired portion of the MAXIMUM sentence. 3. Even if a prisoner has already served the MINIMUM, but he is not fitted for release on the parole, he shall continue to serve until the end of the MAXIMUM term. Page 51 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 ART. 80: SUSPENSION OF SENTENCE OF MINOR DELINQUENTS (AS REPEALED BY PD 603: CHILD AND YOUTH WELFARE CODE)

1. Youthful offender – over 9 but under 18 at time of the commission of the offense 2. A child nine years of age or under at the time of the commission of the offense shall be exempt from criminal liability and shall be committed to the care of his or her father or mother, or nearest relative or family friend in the discretion of the court and subject to its supervision. 3. The same shall be done for a child over nine years and under fifteen years of age at the time of the commission of the offense, unless he acted with discernment, in which case he shall be proceeded against in accordance with Article 192. 4. A youthful offender held for examination or trial who cannot furnish bail will be committed to the DSWD/local rehabilitation center or detention home. 5. If the court finds that the youthful offender committed the crime charged against him, it shall determine the imposable penalty and the civil liability chargeable against him, but it may not pronounce judgment of conviction. Instead, the court shall suspend all further proceedings if, upon application of the youthful offender, it finds that the best interest of the public and that of the offender will be served thereby. EXCEPTIONS to suspension of sentence a. those who previously enjoyed a suspension of sentence b. those convicted of death or life imprisonment c. those convicted for an offense by the military tribunals 6. The youthful offender shall be returned to the QuickTime™ andof a judgment, when court for pronouncement TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor needed to see this picture. the youthfulareoffender, (1) has been found incorrigible, or (2) has willfully failed to comply with the conditions of his rehabilitation programs; or (3) when his continued stay in the training institution would be inadvisable. 7. When the youthful offender has reached the age of twenty one while in commitment, the court shall determine whethera. To dismiss the case, if the youthful

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offender has behaved properly and has shown his capability to be a useful member of the community; or b. To pronounce the judgment of conviction, if the conditions mentioned are not met. In the latter case, the convicted offender may apply for probation. In any case, the youthful offender shall be credited in the service of his sentence with the full time spent in actual commitment and detention. The final release of a youthful offender, based on good conduct as provided in Art. 196 shall not obliterate his civil liability for damages. A minor who is ALREADY AN ADULT at the time of his conviction is not entitled to a suspension of sentence. The records of the proceeding shall be privileged and shall not be disclosed. The civil liability of the youthful offender may be voluntarily assumed by a relative or a friend. The parent or guardian of the child is liable when he aids, abets or connives for the commission of the crime or does an act producing, promoting or contributing to the child’s being a juvenile delinquent. penalties for the parent or guardian: Fine not exceeding P500 and/or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years

PROBATION LAW OF 1976 (PD 968, AS AMENDED)

PROBATION - a disposition under which a defendant after conviction and sentence is released subject to conditions imposed by the court and to the supervision of a probation officer RULES ON GRANT OF PROBATION 1. After having convicted and sentenced a defendant, the trial court may suspend the execution of the sentence, and place the defendant on probation, upon application by the defendant within the period for perfecting an appeal. 2. Probation may be granted whether the sentence imposed a term of imprisonment or fine only. 3. No application for probation shall be entertained or granted if the defendant has Page 52 of 174

Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 perfected an appeal. 4. Filing of application for probation operates as a waiver of the right to appeal. 5. The order granting or denying probation shall not be appealable. 6. Accessory penalties are deemed suspended once probation is granted. 7. The convict is not immediately placed on probation. There shall be a prior investigation by the probation officer and a determination by the court. 8. CRITERIA FOR grant of probation: a. All information relative to the character, antecedents, environment, mental, and physical condition of the offender b. Available institutional and community resources. 9. Probation is to be denied upon finding of the court that: a. The offender is in need of correctional treatment that can be provided effectively by his commitment to an institution. b. There is undue risk of committing another crime. c. Probation will depreciate the seriousness of the offense committed. 10. At any time during probation, the court may issue a warrant for the arrest of a probationer for any serious violation of the conditions of probation. If violation is established, the court may: a. revoke his probation, and thus make him serve the sentence originally imposed, or b. continue his probation and modify its conditions The court order shall not be subject to appeal. 11. Probation is not coterminous with its period. There must be an order issued by the court discharging the probationer. Upon finding that he has fulfilled the terms and QuickTime™ and a decompressorthe court may conditions TIFF of (Uncompressed) his probation, are needed to see this picture. order the final discharge of the probationer. This shall have the following effects: a. case is deemed terminated b. all civil rights lost or suspended are restored c. offender’s liability for any fine imposed is discharged

WHO ARE DISQUALIFIED FROM THE BENEFITS OF PROBATION: 1. Sentenced to serve a maximum term of imprisonment of more the 6 years 2. Convicted of subversion or any crime against the national security or the public order 3. Previously convicted by final judgment of an offense punished by imprisonment of not less than 1 month and 1 day and/or a fine not less than P200 4. Already placed on probation once There are two kinds of conditions imposed upon the offender under probation: 1. Mandatory or general – once violated, the probation is cancelled a. The offender under probation must present himself to the probation officer designated to undertake his supervision, at such place as may be specified in the order, within 72 hours from receipt of order. b. He should report to the probation officer at least once a month. 2. Discretionary or special – additional conditions which the court may additionally impose for the probationer’s correction and rehabilitation outside prison. The enumeration is not exclusive, as long as the probationer’s Constitutional rights are not jeopardized. Duration of Probation Period: 1. If the term of imprisonment is not more than one year, probation shall not exceed 2 years. 2. if the term of imprisonment is more than one year, period shall not exceed 6 years. 3. When the penalty is a fine only and the offender is made to serve subsidiary imprisonment, probation shall be twice the total number of days of subsidiary imprisonment.

ART. 81: WHEN AND HOW THE DEATH PENALTY IS TO BE EXECUTED ART. 82: NOTIFICATION AND EXECUTION OF THE SENTENCE AND ASSISTANCE TO THE CULPRIT Section Two. — Execution of principal penalties NOTE: Designate a working day, which shall not be communicated to the offender before the sunrise of Page 53 of 174

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surveillance of an officer of the law whenever the court so provides in the decision due to the health of the offender. But the reason is not satisfactory just because the offender is a respectable member of the community.

ART. 83: SUSPENSION OF THE EXECUTION OF THE DEATH SENTENCE Death sentence commuted to RP: 1. woman, while pregnant 2. woman, within 1 year, after delivery 3. person over 70 years of age 4. convict who becomes insane after final sentence of death has been pronounced

Title Four EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

ART. 84: PLACE OF EXECUTION AND PERSONS WHO MAY WITNESS THE SAME

Chapter One TOTAL EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

ART. 85: PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO THE CORPSE OF THE PERSON EXECUTED AND ITS BURIAL ART. 86: RECLUSION PERPETUA, RECLUSION TEMPORAL, PRISION MAYOR, PRISION CORRECCIONAL AND ARRESTO MAYOR

ART. 89: HOW CRIMINAL LIABILITY IS TOTALLY EXTINGUISHED PAR. 1. BY DEATH

ART. 87: DESTIERRO

Destierro Shall Be Imposed In The Following Cases: 1. death or serious physical injuries is caused or are inflicted under exceptional circumstance 2. person fails to give bond for good behavior 3. concubine’s penalty for the crime of concubinage 4. lowering the penalty by degrees Execution of Destierro: 1. Convict shall not be permitted to enter the place designated in the sentence nor within the radius specified, which shall not be more QuickTime™ and a than 250 and not less decompressor than 25 km from the TIFF (Uncompressed) are needed to see this picture. place designated. 2. If the convict enters the prohibited area, he commits evasion of sentence.

NOTES: ƒ Extinguishment of criminal liability is a ground for motion to quash. ƒ Criminal liability whether before or after final judgment is extinguished upon death because it is a personal penalty. ƒ Pecuniary penalty is extinguished only when death occurs before final judgment. ƒ The death of the offended party however does not extinguish criminal liability of the accused because it is a crime against the state.

PAR. 2. BY SERVICE OF SENTENCE NOTES: ƒ Crime is a debt, hence extinguished upon payment. ƒ Service does not extinguish civil liability. PAR. 3. BY AMNESTY

ART. 88: ARRESTO MENOR NOTE: Served where: 1. In the municipal jail 2. In the house of the offender, but under the

Amnesty – is an act of the sovereign power granting oblivion or general pardon. It wipes all traces and vestiges of the crime but does not extinguish civil liability.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 PAR. 4. BY ABSOLUTE PARDON Pardon – an act of grace proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of laws, which exempts the individual from the punishment the law inflicts for the crime.

deed – 6 months 4. Light offenses – 2 months When the penalty is a compound one, the highest penalty shall be made the basis of the application of above rules. PAR. 6. BY PRESCRIPTION OF PENALTY

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Does not extinguish civil liability A public act that needs the declaration of the President with the concurrence of Congress

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NOTE: means the loss/forfeiture of the right of government to execute the final sentence after the lapse of a certain time. Conditions: 1. There must be final judgment. 2. The period must have elapsed. PRESCRIPTIVE PERIODS OF PENALTIES: 1. Death and reclusión perpetua – 20 years 2. Other afflictive penalties – 15 years 3. Correctional penalties – 10 years, except for the penalty of arresto mayor which prescribes in 5 years 4. Light penalties – 1 year

PAR. 6. BY MARRIAGE OF THE OFFENDED WOMAN (ART. 344) NOTE: Crimes covered: 1. rape 2. seduction 3. abduction 4. acts of lasciviousness ƒ The marriage must be contracted in good faith.

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ART. 90: PRESCRIPTION OF CRIME NOTES: ƒ In computing for the period, the first day is excluded and the last day included. Period is subject to leap years. ƒ When the last day of the prescriptive period falls on a Sunday or a legal holiday, the information can no longer be filed the following day. ƒ Simple slander prescribes in 2 months and grave slander in 6 months. ƒ Since destierro is a correctional penalty, it prescribes in 10 years. For afflictive penalties, period is 15 years. ƒ If it is a compound penalty, basis will be the highest penalty. Page 55 of 174

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If fine is an alternative penalty (imposed together with a penalty lower than the fine), fine shall be the basis. Prescription begins to run from the discovery thereof. It is interrupted when proceedings are instituted and shall begin to run again when the proceedings are dismissed. If an accused fails to move to quash before pleading, he is deemed to have waived all objections, except if the grounds are: 1. facts charged do not constitute an offense 2. court has no jurisdiction 3. criminal action or liability has been extinguished 4. the averments, if true, would constitute a legal excuse or justification (See Rule 117, Sec 9, RoC) Prescription does not take away the court’s jurisdiction but only absolves the defendant and acquits him.

ART. 91: COMPUTATION OF PRESCRIPTION OF OFFENSES NOTES: ƒ If there is nothing concealed (appears in a public document), the crime commences to run on the date of the commission. ƒ The period of prescription for crimes which continue never runs. ƒ Crime needs to be discovered by: 1. offended party 2. authorities 3. their agents ƒ If a person witnesses the crime but only tells the authorities 25 years later, prescription commences on the day the authorities were told. What Interrupts Prescription? 1. preliminary examination or investigation which is similar to judicial proceeding 2. filing the proper complaint with the QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor prosecutor’s office. Police not included. are needed to see this picture. 3. Filing complaint with the court that has proper jurisdiction The Period Commences To Run Again When The Proceeding Is Terminated: 1. Without the accused being convicted or acquitted 2. The proceeding is unjustifiably stopped for a reason not imputable to the offender

When such proceedings terminate – termination that is final; an unappealed conviction or acquittal Unjustifiably stopped for any reason – ex: accused evades arrest, proceedings must be stopped NOTE: Art. 91 applies to a special law when said law does not provide for the application but only provides for the period of prescription.

ART. 92: WHEN AND HOW PENALTIES PRESCRIBE NOTES: ƒ Final sentence must be imposed. ƒ If a convict can avail of mitigating circumstances and the penalty is lowered, it is still the original penalty that is used as the basis for prescription. However, if the convict already serves a portion of his sentence and escapes after, the penalty that was imposed (not the original) shall be the basis for prescription. ƒ Fines less than P200 fall under light penalty. Those above are correccional. ART. 93: COMPUTATION OF THE PRESCRIPTION OF PENALTIES The period of prescription commences to run from the date when the culprit evaded the service of his sentence. Requisites: 1. Penalty is imposed by final sentence. 2. Convict evaded service of the sentence by escaping during the term of his sentence. 3. Convict has not given himself up, or been captured, or gone to a foreign country with which we have no extradition treaty, or committed another crime. 4. Penalty has prescribed, because of the lapse of time from the date of the evasion of the service of the sentence. Interruption Of The Period: If the convict 1. gives himself up 2. be captured 3. goes to a foreign country with which the Philippines has no extradition treaty 4. commits another crime before the expiration of the period of prescription 5. accepts a conditional pardon

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 NOTES: ƒ If a government has an extradition treaty with the country to which a convict escaped, but the crime is not included in the treaty, the running of the prescription is still interrupted. ƒ Evasion of sentence starts the running of the prescription. It does not interrupt it. Acceptance of the conditional pardon interrupts the prescription period. ƒ Rolito Go case: Since he was captured, he is only supposed to serve the remainder of his sentence. Reason: During the period he escaped, his existence was one of fear and discomfort. ART. 94: PARTIAL EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

NOTES: ƒ Consent is not necessary in commutation. ƒ Prisoner is also allowed special time allowance for loyalty which is 1/5 deduction of the period of his sentence. PAROLE – consists in the suspension of the sentence of a convict after serving the minimum term of the indeterminate penalty, without granting pardon, prescribing the terms upon which the sentence shall be suspended. In case his parole conditions are not observed, a convict may be returned to the custody and continue to serve his sentence without deducting the time that elapsed. Good conduct allowance during confinement – Deduction for the term of sentence for good behavior

Conditional pardon – contract between the sovereign power of the executive and the convict NOTE: Convict shall not violate any of the penal laws of the Philippines. In Case Of Violation Of Conditions: 1. Offender is re-arrested and re-incarcerated 2. Prosecution under Art. 159 COMMUTATION – change in the decision of the court by the chief regarding the: 1. degree of the penalty 2. by decreasing the length of the imprisonment or fine Commutation Allowed When: 1. person is over 70 years old 2. 8 justices fail to reach a decision affirming the death penalty

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For violations, may be rearrested, convict serves remaining sentence

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 NOTES: ƒ The article applies only to prisoners who escaped. ƒ There is a deduction of 1/5 of the period of sentence of prisoner who, having evaded the service of his sentence during the calamity or catastrophe mentioned in Art 158, gives himself up to the authorities within 48 hours following the issuance of the proclamation by the President announcing the passing away of the calamity or catastrophe. ƒ The deduction is based on the original sentence and not on the unexpired portion. ƒ Art 158 provides for increased penalties: ƒ A convict who has evaded the service of his sentence by leaving the penal institution on the occasion of disorder resulting from conflagration, earthquake or similar catastrophe or during mutiny in which he did not participate is liable to an increased penalty (1/5 of the time still remaining to be served – not to exceed 6 months), if he fails to give himself up to the authorities within 48 hours following the issuance of a proclamation by the President announcing the passing away of the calamity. ART. 99: WHO GRANTS TIME ALLOWANCES NOTES: ƒ The authority to grant time allowance for good conduct is exclusively vested in the Director. (e.g. provincial warden cannot usurp Director’s authority) ƒ It is not an automatic right, and once granted, cannot be revoked by him.

Title Five CIVIL LIABILITY QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.

Chapter One PERSON CIVILLY LIABLE FOR FELONIES

TWO CLASSES OF CIVIL LIABILITY 1. social injury – produced by disturbance and alarm which are the outcome of the offense

2. personal injury – caused by the victim who may have suffered damage, either to his person, property, honor or chastity

ART. 100: CIVIL LIABILITY OF A PERSON GUILTY OF FELONY Dual Character Of The Crime As Against: 1. the state, because of the disturbance of peace and order 2. the private person injured, unless it involves the crime of treason, rebellion, espionage, contempt and others where no civil liability arises on the part of the offender either because there are no damages or there is no private person injured by the crime

Damage that may be recovered in criminal cases: 1. Crimes against persons, like crime of physical injuries – whatever he spent for treatment of wounds, doctor’s fees, medicines as well as salary or wages unearned 2. Moral Damages: seduction, abduction, rape or other lascivious acts, adultery or concubinage, illegal or arbitrary detention or arrest, illegal search, libel, slander or any other form of defamation, malicious prosecution 3. Exemplary Damages: imposed when crime was committed with one or more aggravating circumstances NOTES: ƒ If there is no damage caused by the commission of the crime, offender is not civilly liable. ƒ Dismissal of the information or the criminal action does not affect the right of the offended party to institute or continue the civil action already instituted arising from the offense, because such dismissal does not carry with it the extinction of the civil one. ƒ When accused is acquitted on ground that his guilt has not been proven beyond reasonable doubt, a civil action for damages for the same act or omission may be instituted. ƒ Exemption from criminal liability in favor of an imbecile or insane person, and a person under 15 years, or over 15 but under 18 who acted without discernment and those acting Page 58 of 174

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Prejudicial Question – one which arises in a case, QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor the resolution of which is a logical antecedent of the are needed to see this picture. issue involved in said case and the cognizance of which pertains to another tribunal. (elements provided in Rule 111, Section 7 of RoC) For the principle to apply, it is essential that there be 2 cases involved, a civil and a criminal case. Prejudicial questions must be decided before any criminal prosecution may be instituted or may proceed.

ART. 101: RULES REGARDING CIVIL LIABILITY IN CERTAIN CASES General Rule: Exemption from criminal liability does not include exemption from civil liability. Exception: No civil liability in Art. 12, par. 4 (injury caused by mere accident) and par. 7 (failure to perform an act required by law when prevented by some lawful or insuperable cause). Pars. 1,2,3,5 and 6 are NOT exempt from civil liability although exempt from criminal liability. Who Are Civilly Liable For: 1. acts of insane or minor exempt from criminal liability a. primarily persons having legal authority or control over him, if at fault or negligent (except if proven that they acted without fault or with due diligence) b. If there is no fault or negligence, or even with fault but are insolvent and there are no persons having legal authority over them, the property of the insane, minor or imbecile not exempt from execution shall be held liable. 2. over 15 but under 18, with discernment a. The father and, in case of his death or incapacity, the mother, are responsible for the damages caused by the minor children who live in their company. b. Guardians over minors who are under their authority and live in their company c. If there are no parents or guardian, the minor or insane person shall be answerable with his own property in an action against him where a guardian ad litem shall be appointed. NOTE: Final release of a child based on good conduct does not remove his civil liability for damages. 3. persons acting under an irresistible force or uncontrollable fear – Persons using violence or causing the fear are primarily liable. If there are none, those doing the act are responsible.

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 General Rule: no civil liability in justifying circumstances Exception: par. 4 of Art. 11, where a person does an act, causing damage to another, in order to avoid evil or injury, the person benefited by the prevention of the evil or injury shall be civilly liable in proportion to the benefit he received. Civil liability in case of state of necessity Those who benefited by the act are liable. The court shall determine the proportionate amount for which each shall be liable. If the government or majority of the inhabitants are held responsible, such will be determined by special laws or regulations. ART. 102: SUBSIDIARY CIVIL LIABILITY OF INNKEEPERS, TAVERNKEEPERS AND PROPRIETORS OF ESTABLISHMENTS PAR. 1 Requisites: 1. The innkeeper, tavernkeeper or proprietor of the establishment or his employee committed a violation of municipal ordinance or some general or special police regulation. 2. A crime is committed in such establishment. 3. The person criminally liable is insolvent. NOTE: When all these are present, the innkeeper, tavernkeeper or any other person or corporation is subsidiarily liable for the crime committed in his establishment. PAR. 2: Requisites: 1. The guests notified in advance the innkeeper of the deposit of such goods within the inn or house. 2. The guests followed the directions of the innkeeper or his representative with respect to the care of and vigilance over such goods. and a 3. Such goods of QuickTime™ the guests lodging therein TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor to see thisw/ picture. were taken are byneeded robbery force upon things or theft committed within the inn or house.

ART. 103: SUBSIDIARY CIVIL LIABILITY OF OTHER PERSONS

industry. 2. Any of their servants, pupils, workmen, apprentices or employees commits a felony while in the discharge of his duties. 3. The said employee is insolvent and has not satisfied his civil liability. Industry – any department or branch of art, occupation or business; especially one w/c employs so much labor and capital is a distinct branch of trade NOTES: ƒ Hospitals are not engaged in industry; hence, they are not subsidiarily liable for acts of nurses. ƒ Private persons without business or industry are not subsidiarily liable. ƒ A separate trial is not necessary to enforce the subsidiary liability of the employer. The judgment obligee only needs to file a motion for subsidiary execution. During the hearing of the said motion, it is incumbent upon the movant to prove that; (1) an employeremployee relationship exists; (2) the employer is engaged in an industry; (3) the convict committed the crime while in the discharge of his duties; and (4) the writ of execution was returned unsatisfied. ƒ The employer’s subsidiary liability arises when it is proved that the convict committed the crime while at the service of the employer and the writ of execution issued against the accused is returned unsatisfied. On the other hand, if the convict committed the crime but NOT while in the service of an employer and he cannot pay his civil liability, Art. 39 on subsidiary penalty will apply.

CIVIL LIABILITIES Includes reparation and indemnification Includes restitution (return property taken), nothing to pay in terms of money

PECUNIARY LIABILITIES Same

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NOTE: The first remedy granted by law is restitution of the thing taken away by the offender; if restitution cannot be made by the offender or by his heirs, the law allows the offended party reparation. In either case, indemnity for consequential damages may be required. Restitution – In theft, the culprit is duty bound to return the property stolen. Reparation – In case of inability to return the property stolen, the culprit must pay the value of the property stolen. In case of physical injuries, the reparation of the damage caused would consist in the payment of hospital bills and doctor’s fees to the offended party.

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property may be reimbursed with the price paid therefor if it be acquired at (a) a public sale and (b) in good faith. Circumstances which bar an action for recovery: (a) torrens title, (b) when sale is authorized When the liability to return a thing arises from a contract, and not from a criminal act, the court cannot order its return in the criminal case. Restitution may be ordered, even if accused is acquitted, provided the offense is proved and it is shown that the thing belongs to someone else. When crime is not against property, no restitution or reparation of the thing can be done. Payment of salary of an employee during the period of suspension cannot, as a general rule, be properly decreed by the court in a judgment of acquittal. It devolves upon the head of the department concerned to do so. The court has authority to order the reinstatement of the accused acquitted of a crime punishable by the penalty of perpetual or temporary disqualification.

Indemnification – the loss of salary or earnings ART. 106: REPARATION; HOW MADE ART. 105: RESTITUTION; HOW MADE NOTES: ƒ The convict cannot, by way of restitution, give to the offended party a similar thing of the same amount, kind or species and quality. The very thing should be returned. ƒ If the property stolen while in the possession of the third party suffers deterioration due to his fault, the court will assess the amount of the deterioration and, in addition to the return of the property, the culprit will be ordered to pay such amount. ƒ The owner of theQuickTime™ property and a illegally taken by TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor needed to see this picture. the offender are can recover it from whomsoever is in possession thereof. Thus, even if the rd property stolen was acquired by a 3 person by purchase without knowing that it has been stolen, such property will be returned to the owner. ƒ If the thing is acquired by a person knowing that it was stolen, then he is an accessory and therefore criminally liable. ƒ The third party who acquired the stolen

NOTES: ƒ The court orders reparation if restitution is not possible. ƒ Reparation shall be: the price of the thing, plus its sentimental value. ƒ If there is no evidence as to the value of the thing unrecovered, reparation cannot be made. ƒ Payment by the insurance company does not relieve the offender of his obligation to repair the damage caused. ƒ Damages shall be limited to those caused by the crime. ƒ The accused is liable for the damages caused as a result of the destruction of the property after the crime was committed, either because it was lost or destroyed by the accused himself or that by any other person or as a result of any other cause or causes. ART. 107: INDEMNIFICATION; WHAT IS INCLUDED NOTES: ƒ Indemnity refers to crimes against persons while reparation to crimes against property. Page 61 of 174

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Indemnity for medical services still unpaid may be recovered. Contributory negligence on the part of the offended party reduces the civil liability of the offender. The civil liability may be increased only if it will not require an aggravation of the decision in the criminal case on which it is based. The amount of damages for death shall be at least 50,000, even though there may have been mitigating circumstances. In addition: 1. payment for the loss of the earning capacity of the deceased 2. If the deceased was obliged to give support, the recipient, who is not an heir, may demand support from the defendant. 3. The spouse, illegitimate descendants and ascendants of the deceased may demand for moral damages.

Moral damages may be recovered following: 1. physical injuries 2. seduction, abduction, rape 3. adultery, concubinage 4. illegal or arbitrary detention 5. illegal search 6. libel, slander, defamation 7. malicious prosecution

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ART. 108: OBLIGATION TO MAKE RESTORATION, REPARATION FOR DAMAGES, OR INDEMNIFICATION FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES AND ACTIONS TO DEMAND THE SAME; UPON WHOM IT DEVOLVES NOTES: ƒ The heirs of the person liable has no obligation if restoration is not possible and the deceased left no property. ƒ Civil liability is possible only when the offender dies after final judgment. ƒ If the death of the offender took place before QuickTime™ and a (Uncompressed) decompressor any final TIFFjudgment of conviction was are needed to see this picture. rendered against him, the action for restitution must necessarily be dismissed. ART. 109: SHARE OF EACH PERSON CIVILLY LIABLE NOTE: In case of insolvency of the accomplices, the principal shall be subsidiarily liable for their share of the indemnity. In case of the insolvency of the principal, the accomplices shall be subsidiarily liable,

jointly and severally liable, for the indemnity due from said principal. ART. 110: SEVERAL AND SUBSIDIARY LIABILITY OF PRINCIPALS, ACCOMPLICES AND ACCESSORIES OF A FELONY; PREFERENCE IN PAYMENT Each class of principals, accomplices and accessories is liable solidary for their share and subsidiarily liable for the share of the other classes. Preference In Enforcement Of Subsidiary Liability: 1. against the property of the principal 2. against that of the accomplice 3. against that of the accessories ART. 111: OBLIGATION TO MAKE RESTITUTION IN CERTAIN CASES NOTES: ƒ This refers to a person who has participated gratuitously in the proceeds of a felony and he is bound to make restitution in an amount equivalent to the extent of such participation. ƒ The third person must be innocent of the commission of the crime, otherwise he would be liable as an accessory and this article will not apply. Ex. A stole a ring worth 1k which he gave to B who accepted it without knowledge that it was stolen. B sold the ring to C for 500. B is liable to make restitution up to 500 only.

Chapter Three EXTINCTION AND SURVIVAL OF CIVIL LIABILITY

ART. 112: EXTINCTION OF CIVIL LIABILITY Civil Liability Is Extinguished By: 1. payment or performance 2. loss of the thing due 3. condonation or remission of the debt 4. confusion or merger of the rights of creditor and debtor 5. compensation 6. novation

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Criminal Law Summer Reviewer ATENEO CENTRAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007 ART. 113: OBLIGATION TO SATISFY CIVIL LIABILITY NOTES: ƒ Unless extinguished, civil liability subsists even if the offender has served sentence consisting of deprivation of liberty or other rights or has not served the same, due to amnesty, pardon, commutation of the sentence or any other reason. ƒ Under the law as amended, even if the subsidiary imprisonment is served for nonpayment of fines, this pecuniary liability of the defendant is not extinguished. ƒ While amnesty wipes out all traces and vestiges of the crime, it does not extinguish the civil liability of the offender. A pardon shall in no case exempt the culprit from the payment of the civil indemnity imposed upon him by the sentence. ƒ Probation affects only the criminal aspect of the crime.

BOOK II

TITLE ONE CRIMES AGAINST NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE LAW OF NATIONS

Section 1 – Treason and Espionage ART 114. TREASON ELEMENTS: 1. Offender is a Filipino citizen or an alien QuickTime™ and a resident; TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. 2. There’s a war in and Philippines is involved; and 3. Offender either – a. Levies war against the government; or b. Adheres to enemies, giving aid or comfort.

NOTES: • Treason – breach of allegiance to the government by a person who owes allegiance to it. • Allegiance – obligation of fidelity and obedience which individuals owe to the government under which they live or to their sovereign, in return for protection they receive • Treason is a war crime - punished by state as a measure of self-protection • Committed in times of war (not peace) when - there is actual hostilities - no need for a declaration of war. • Mere acceptance of public office and discharge of official duties under the enemy do not constitute per se the felony of treason. But when the position is policy-determining, the acceptance of public office and the discharge of official duties constitute treason.

PERSONS LIABLE: 1. Filipino – permanent allegiance; can commit treason anywhere 2. Alien Residing – temporary allegiance; commit treason only while residing in Philippines NOTES: • Treason committed in a foreign country may be prosecuted in the Philippines. (Art.2, RPC) • Treason by an alien must be committed in the Philippines. (EO 44).

WAYS TO COMMIT TREASON: 1. Levying war against government - requires: a. Actual assembling of men b. Purpose of executing a treasonable design, by force 2. Adheres to enemies – following must concur together: a. Actual adherence b. Give aid or comfort NOTES: • Levying war - must be with intent to overthrow the government as such, not merely to repeal a particular statute or to resist a particular officer. • Not necessary that those attempting to overthrow the government by force of arms Page 63 of 174