Successive Service of Sentence

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1. Under Article 70, when should two or more penalties be served simultaneously?
2. If the nature of the penalties does not permit simultaneous service, what is Article 70's general rule?
3. Which of these is more severe in Article 70's order for successive service?
4. Final judgments require Rene to serve a term of prision mayor and a term of arresto mayor. Assume they cannot be served…
5. A court establishes that two valid penalties can, by their nature, be served at the same time. An administrator insists…
6. A judgment imposes a separate lawful penalty for each of several distinct offenses. Their aggregate stated duration exc…
7. Several penalties must be served successively. One of the penalties that otherwise would have been served earlier has a…
8. Set out Article 70's approach to simultaneous and successive service. Does the mere existence of multiple convictions a…
9. Explain why the statutory severity scale, rather than the shortest term or a private party's preference, controls succe…
10. A judge proposes to omit penalties for several separately proved crimes because Article 70 will limit total imprisonmen…
11. In Article70’s successive-service scale, which comes first: arresto menor or destierro?
12. In Article70’s scale, which precedes temporary absolute disqualification?