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Practice question: Special Complex Crime or Composite Crime

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A robber completes the taking and kills a pursuer to facilitate escape. All robbery-related elements are proved. Does completion of taking alone compel separate treatment?
  1. No; Esugon recognizes the robbery-related escape killing
  2. Yes; no death after taking can ever qualify
  3. Yes; escape is always independent by definition
  4. Yes; the robbery is legally erased
  5. Yes; physical chronology replaces every connection inquiry

Legal references

  • People v Esugon GR195244 June22,2015 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/jun2015/gr_195244_2015.html
  • People v Balanag GR103225 September15,1994 MAIN, different robbery and homicide victims: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1994/sep1994/gr_103225_1994.html

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