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Service of Sentence

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  1. Under Article 89(2), what effect does complete service of the sentence have?
  2. Does service of imprisonment alone automatically extinguish the offender’s civil liability for the crime?
  3. What must be used to determine whether service is complete when lawful credits apply?
  4. A prisoner’s actual service plus properly granted applicable credits lawfully completes the sentence. There is no other…
  5. A judgment imposes both imprisonment and a criminal fine. The prison term has been fully served, but the fine remains l…
  6. A final convict of a heinous crime seeks computation of genuinely earned post-conviction GCTA under Article 97. Officia…
  7. A person completes the sentence in Case A but is still lawfully serving a different sentence in Case B. The person argu…
  8. Explain total extinction by service of sentence and its relationship to applicable lawful credits. Assume the credits a…
  9. A person has fully served imprisonment but still owes the victim adjudged civil damages. Explain whether the damages di…
  10. Explain Guinto’s relevance when evaluating completion of a sentence for a prisoner convicted of a heinous crime. Does e…
  11. Does identity of prison terms and origin from the same court alone make them simultaneously served?
  12. What is the absolute outer ceiling stated in Article 70’s successive-service limit?