Practice question
A criminal charge is withdrawn before the accused has entered any plea. No separate bar applies. The accused asserts that any filed accusation necessarily completes double jeopardy. Which is best?
- Filing alone always completes the bar
- A plea is irrelevant
- The asserted rule is incorrect; the required prior jeopardy requisites must be present
- Every withdrawal is an acquittal after trial
- A newspaper report supplies the missing plea
Legal references
- Rules of Court, Rule 117, Section 7: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_110-127_crim.html
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