Practice question
A special statute uses RPC penalty nomenclature and formerly authorized death. An accused argues that being a special statute necessarily means the substitute must be life imprisonment. What distinction controls?
- Whether the information is one page long
- Whether its title includes the word special
- Whether the accused prefers one term
- Whether the violated law uses RPC penalty nomenclature
- Whether the statute has an old number
Legal references
- RA 9346, Sections 1-4, prohibition and replacement of death penalty: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2006/ra_9346_2006.html
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