Practice question
Five valid fixed twenty-year imprisonment terms fall within Article 70, without other adjustments or custody grounds. The prisoner claims threefold means sixty years; officials demand the one-hundred-year aggregate. Which is best?
- The aggregate always overrides the ceiling.
- The forty-year outer ceiling limits the stated successive-service computation.
- Sixty years is required despite the absolute limit.
- Only twenty years is served because every term is identical.
- Article 70 applies only when the prisoner chooses it.
Legal references
- In re Petition for Habeas Corpus of Pete Lagran, G.R. No. 147270, August 15, 2001, main decision, successive service and Article 70: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2001/aug2001/gr_147270_2001.html
- Mejorada v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. Nos. L-51065-72, June 30, 1987, en banc main decision, imposition distinguished from service: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1987/jun1987/gr_l-51065_1987.html
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