Practice question
A prison clerk receives only a favorable recommendation, with no valid presidential grant, and changes the judgment term on that basis alone. What distinction has been missed?
- Only family approval is required
- Every recommendation is self-executing clemency
- A clerk may commute whenever sympathetic
- Recommendation is not itself a completed commutation
- The original judgment automatically disappears on application
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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