Practice question
All qualifying habitual-delinquency conditions are established. A prosecutor calculates the latest offense’s penalty and the Article62 additional penalty and proposes a combined duration above thirty years solely under that paragraph. Which is best?
- The paragraph has no combined limit
- Article62 expressly caps the combined two penalties under this provision at thirty years
- The additional penalty always cancels the principal one
- The judge may ignore every statutory maximum
- The cap applies only to newspaper summaries
Legal references
- RA7659, Section23, Article62(5): https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1993/ra_7659_1993.html
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