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Practice question: Proximate Cause

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

Does proving an unlawful act automatically establish its causal connection to every later death?
  1. Only the act’s seriousness matters
  2. Yes, temporal order proves every link
  3. No
  4. No medical or factual evidence is ever needed
  5. Every later event is conclusively attributed

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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