Practice question
Which effect can place a retrospective evidentiary law within the ex post facto categories discussed in Trillanes?
- Receiving less or different testimony than previously required in order to convict for the earlier offense
- Improving the court’s building ventilation without changing proof
- Changing an unrelated cafeteria menu
- Adding benches to a public waiting room
- Repainting the courthouse exterior
Legal references
- Trillanes IV v. Medialdea, G.R. Nos. 241494, 256660 and 256078, April 3, 2024, main decision, ex post facto and attainder discussion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2024/apr2024/gr_241494_2024.html
- 1987 Constitution, Article III, Section 22: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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