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Practice question: Anti-Piracy and Anti-Highway Robbery Law (PD 532)

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Practice question

Knowing a group commits PD532 piracy, an informant supplies the pirates with police patrol schedules to help them avoid interception. He does not personally board a vessel and argues that this alone excludes liability under the decree. Which is best?
  1. Only a person physically aboard a vessel can ever be liable
  2. Knowledge is irrelevant in every aiding case
  3. Police schedules can never facilitate piracy
  4. Section4 expressly reaches knowing assistance of this kind and treats the covered aider as an accomplice
  5. Information suppliers automatically become innocent witnesses

Legal references

  • PD532 Section4: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_532_1974.html

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