Practice question
An act was lawful when done. A later statute newly criminalizes it and prescribes imprisonment. May that later harsher prohibition ordinarily be used to convict for the earlier act?
- Yes, every new penal law is retroactive
- Yes, because the later legislature disapproves
- Yes, if no one was harmed
- No; legality and prospectivity prevent punishment under that newly created prohibition for the earlier lawful act
- Only the employer may decide
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code Articles21–22: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930b.html
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