Practice question
An unlawful push causes a victim to fall down stairs, and competent evidence establishes an uninterrupted chain from the fall injuries to death. The accused relies only on not directly touching the fatal wound. What is the proper causal approach?
- The accused must personally perform every physiological event
- Only the final contact can ever be a cause
- A fall necessarily removes every assault cause
- Assess the chain set in motion by the felonious push
- Indirect consequences are always excluded
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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