Anti-Piracy and Anti-Highway Robbery Law (PD 532)

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1. Under PD532’s piracy definition, can a passenger or crew member be an offender?
2. PD532’s vessel definition includes which craft?
3. Under Puno, what distinguishes PD532 highway robbery from a robbery aimed solely at a predetermined victim?
4. A crew member violently seizes cargo from a fishing vessel operating in Philippine waters. He argues that his membershi…
5. Robbers deliberately select one jewelry courier days in advance and attack only that courier on a highway. No plan to p…
6. An armed group sets up an unlawful roadblock to rob whichever travelers pass, without selecting victims beforehand. A p…
7. Knowing a group commits PD532 piracy, an informant supplies the pirates with police patrol schedules to help them avoid…
8. Explain why PD532 piracy cannot be defeated solely by showing that the accused was a passenger or crew member.
9. Using Puno, distinguish indiscriminate highway robbery from a planned robbery of a particular courier on a road.
10. An informant knowingly helps pirates avoid police by supplying patrol movements. Explain the separate relevance of PD53…
11. Does PD532’s definition of Philippine highway include a railway or railroad used for movement of persons or goods?
12. Can force upon things supply the means identified in PD532’s piracy definition?