Practice question
A proper party moves to suspend arraignment because a qualifying DOJ review petition was filed twenty days ago and remains pending. What is the applicable section 11(c) treatment?
- The court must ignore the review in every case.
- Arraignment is subject to suspension under the Rule, within its sixty-day maximum from filing.
- Every warrant is automatically quashed.
- The information is automatically dismissed.
- The accused is automatically acquitted.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_110-127_crim.html — Rule 116 section 11: grounds and limits of suspension; Rule 111 sections 6–7: qualifying prejudicial question.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2018/sep2018/gr_186403_2018.html — Corpus v. Pamular, G.R. 186403, September 5, 2018, main opinion: 60-day limit and arrest-warrant distinction.
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