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Practice question: Obstruction of Justice (PD 1829)

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A suspect publicly adopts a false identity specifically to evade execution of an existing criminal judgment. He argues Section1(d) ends once trial is over. All necessary facts are proved. Which response follows?
  1. Evading execution of a judgment is expressly included
  2. Only pretrial aliases are covered
  3. A final judgment authorizes a false identity
  4. Only a foreign alias can qualify
  5. The paragraph applies only to civil nicknames

Legal references

  • PD1829 Section1(d)–(i): https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1981/pd_1829_1981.html

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