Prospectivity

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1. What does the ordinary prospectivity principle prohibit?
2. What favorable-law exception does Article 22 recognize?
3. To what does Article 22 refer when it excludes a habitual criminal from its stated favorable-retroactivity rule?
4. A person commits an offense when its prescribed maximum punishment is lower. A later law only increases that punishment…
5. A convict is serving a final sentence when a later favorable penal amendment becomes effective. The person is within Ar…
6. Assume conduct was not a crime when done in 2024. A statute effective in 2025 first criminalizes it and expressly purpo…
7. An eligible offender seeks the benefit of a later law allowing community service instead of service in jail for the rel…
8. Explain the ordinary prospectivity rule and Article 22’s favorable-penal-law exception.
9. Does a final sentence already being served necessarily prevent favorable retroactivity under Article 22? Explain the im…
10. Distinguish the temporal availability of a favorable community-service law from automatic entitlement to community serv…
11. Does RA10951 Section100 expressly address favorable application to persons serving sentence by final judgment?
12. Does Section100 make every RA10951 amendment retroactive regardless of whether it favors the accused?