Amnesty

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1. What constitutional participation is required for a presidential grant of amnesty?
2. Under Article 89(3), what is the penal effect of amnesty?
3. Does the mere existence of an amnesty proclamation automatically cover every offense by every person?
4. A valid hypothetical amnesty covers specified political acts during a defined period and expressly excludes crimes comm…
5. A qualified applicant invokes a valid amnesty while prosecution is pending and before conviction becomes final. An offi…
6. A successor President attempts unilaterally to revoke an earlier valid amnesty grant merely because the successor disag…
7. A valid amnesty has extinguished the covered criminal liability. The beneficiary still owes an independently enforceabl…
8. Explain the constitutional grant of amnesty and distinguish it from individual pardon concerning congressional particip…
9. A person invokes a valid amnesty covering certain acts and persons but supplies no basis showing inclusion within its s…
10. State Trillanes’ current rule on revoking an amnesty grant. Does recognizing legitimate revocation permit unilateral ca…
11. How does Trillanes describe amnesty for purposes of judicial notice?
12. Under the arrangement upheld in Trillanes, did DND processing of applications itself constitute an unconstitutional tra…