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Practice question: Anti-Terrorism Act (RA 11479)

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A sister who did not join the original Section4 crime knowingly helps its principal escape afterward. Every Section14 element is proved. She invokes only the kinship-based exemption she recalls from ordinary RPC accessory rules. Which text governs this special-law claim?
  1. Section14 expressly allows no exemption regardless of relationship or affinity
  2. The sister is automatically immune
  3. Only unrelated strangers can be accessories
  4. Any family promise defeats the statute
  5. Her lack of original participation necessarily acquits her

Legal references

  • RA11479 Sections6,8–9 and14–15: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2020/ra_11479_2020.html
  • Calleja v Executive Secretary GR252578 December7,2021 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2021/dec2021/gr_252578_2021.html

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