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Practice question: Voting of Persons Deprived of Liberty (CR 9371)

Multiple Choice Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

An analyst describes Aguinaldo as a merits decision conclusively approving every hypothetical operational detail of prison voting. Which correction is necessary?
  1. The Court actually abolished every jail polling place
  2. The Court convicted every petitioner
  3. The Court decided every future dispute in advance
  4. The case contains no procedural analysis
  5. The petition was dismissed for unmet review requisites, and the Court did not reach the substantive issues

Legal references

  • Aguinaldo v. New Bilibid Prison, G.R. No. 221201, March 29, 2022, main resolution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/18/68250; main resolution, quoted Resolution 9371 Rule 1 Section 2 and judicial-review disposition.
  • RA 8189: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1996/ra_8189_1996.html; Section 11(a).

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