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Practice question: Proximate Cause

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Practice question

An unlawful push causes a fall and fatal injury through a proved uninterrupted sequence. Explain why the attacker need not have directly inflicted the final physiological injury to be a proximate cause.

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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