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Practice question: Credit for Preventive Imprisonment

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

For an otherwise eligible detention prisoner, what supports full preventive-imprisonment credit under amended Article 29?
  1. An uninformed oral promise alone
  2. A voluntary written agreement, after information about its effects and with counsel’s assistance, to follow convicted prisoners’ disciplinary rules
  3. Payment to a prison employee
  4. A victim’s personal approval
  5. Refusal to identify the period detained

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10592_2013.html — RA 10592 section 1, amended RPC Article 29: full and four-fifths credit, counsel-assisted writing, reclusion perpetua computation and qualified immediate release.

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