Practice question
A lawful clemency instrument substitutes a six-year sentence for an original ten-year sentence. The prison record continues to use ten years solely because that was the court’s original term. Which is best?
- The substituted sentence must be recognized according to the valid grant
- The original term always prevails despite commutation
- The inmate may choose twenty years instead
- The change amounts to acquittal
- The substitution creates a second cumulative ten-year sentence
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code Article96: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html
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