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Practice question: Obstruction of Justice (PD 1829)

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

What intent is required by section 1(b) for the specified destruction or concealment of evidence?
  1. Only an intention to clean a storage room
  2. Intent to impair the material’s verity, authenticity, legibility, availability or admissibility as criminal-case evidence
  3. Only a wish to own more office supplies
  4. Only an intention to retire from employment
  5. No intent or connection to evidence is relevant

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1981/pd_1829_1981.html — PD 1829, sections 1(a)–(i) and 2, knowing or willful obstruction through enumerated acts and public-official disqualification.

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