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Practice question: Efficient Intervening Cause

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

Does an efficient break concerning death necessarily erase liability for the original proved unlawful injury?
  1. Yes, all earlier crimes disappear
  2. Yes, the original act becomes lawful retroactively
  3. No
  4. Only the later actor can ever have any liability
  5. Yes, a later death annuls every offense

Legal references

  • Revised Penal Code, Articles3-4 and49, as applicable: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html
  • Quinto v. Andres, GR155791, March16 2005, main decision, criminal causation: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2005/mar2005/gr_155791_2005.html

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