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Practice question: Successive Service of Sentence

Multiple Choice Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

A records officer proposes public censure before a still-enforceable suspension solely because the censure judgment was received first. Assume successive service is required. What controls?
  1. No statutory order exists
  2. Only order of incoming mail
  3. Only the shortest paperwork
  4. Only the offender’s preference
  5. Article70’s severity order, which places the specified suspension before public censure

Legal references

  • Commonwealth Act217 Section2, amended RPC Article70; Section3 Article71 for contrast: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/29/15348

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