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Practice question: Prescription of Penalties

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

Compare an RPC crime punishable by reclusion temporal with the imposed reclusion temporal penalty. Which pair of ordinary periods is correct?
  1. Crime: twenty years; penalty: fifteen years
  2. Both twenty years
  3. Both fifteen years
  4. Crime: fifteen years; penalty: twenty years
  5. Both five years

Legal references

  • Revised Penal Code, relevant Articles: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html Articles90,92–93.
  • Basilonia v Villaruz GR191370-71 August10,2015 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/aug2015/gr_191370_2015.html

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