Practice question
A prisoner has a qualifying-looking prison range but has escaped from confinement and is within Section2’s stated escape category. The prisoner says recapture and a maximum above one year automatically remove the express exclusion, with no other legal basis asserted. Which is correct?
- The escape exclusion must be examined; duration alone does not erase it
- A maximum above one year overrides every exclusion
- Recapture automatically rewrites the statute
- The list contains no escape category
- Only the prisoner’s requested minimum controls
Legal references
- Act4225 amended Indeterminate Sentence Law Section2 exclusions: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1935/act_4225_1935.html
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