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Practice question: Impossible Crime

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A person merely imagines an impossible theft and performs no execution acts. May the prosecutor use social danger alone to replace the act requirement?
  1. No
  2. Yes; Article59 dispenses with all acts
  3. Yes; imagination is always a completed taking
  4. Yes; risk labels conclusively prove execution
  5. Yes; the intended property need never be identified

Legal references

  • Revised Penal Code Articles4–5,8,16–22,59, specified provisions: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html Articles4(2) and59; no obsolete fine computation.
  • Intod v CA GR103119 October21,1992 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1992/oct1992/gr_103119_1992.html
  • Jacinto v People GR162540 July13,2009 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2009/jul2009/gr_162540_2009.html

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