Practice question
A law creates an investigative body, makes no guilt declaration, imposes no punishment and leaves prosecution and judgment to courts. Does group focus alone necessarily establish a bill of attainder?
- No; Fuertes explains that specificity alone does not establish all elements
- Yes; every focused investigation is legislative punishment
- Yes; courts can never hear a resulting case
- Yes; every investigative report is imprisonment
- Yes; every named inquiry abolishes due process
Legal references
- Fuertes v Senate GR208162 January7,2020 ENBANC MAIN, attainder and retained judicial guilt determination: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2020/jan2020/gr_208162_2020.html MAIN doctrine only; no assertion that earlier hazing provisions supersede RA11053.
- 1987 Constitution ArticleIII Sections1,14,22: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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