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Practice question: Threefold Rule

Multiple Choice Easy Jurisprudence

Practice question

Assume the longest fixed term is fourteen years. What additional outer ceiling prevents serving the entire forty-two-year threefold figure?
  1. A mandatory forty-two-year minimum
  2. The forty-year statutory ceiling
  3. An unlimited-term rule
  4. An automatic sixty-year ceiling
  5. No outer ceiling exists

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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