Practice question
Distinguish the formal safeguards for a written custodial-rights waiver from the separate statutory witness alternatives for a later extrajudicial confession. Must every waiver include a parent, mayor or minister as well as counsel?
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article III, Section 12(1).
- RA 7438, April 27, 1992: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1992/ra_7438_1992.html; Section 2(d)–(e).
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