Practice question
A convict’s relative signs a document reducing the sentence and calls it commutation. No presidential exercise or other lawful sentence modification exists. Does the relative’s document alone produce Article96 substitution?
- The victim need never be distinguished from the Executive
- Yes, kinship supplies constitutional authority
- Yes, every private agreement changes criminal punishment
- Only the paper’s title matters
- No
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code, Articles95-96,109-110 and159, as applicable: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html
- Constitution, ArticleVII Section19, executive clemency after final conviction: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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