Practice question
An offense falls within the ordinary first-level imprisonment category and no special exclusive allocation applies. Its civil liability is large. Counsel invokes the civil amount alone to require RTC criminal trial. Which is correct?
- Only civil thresholds ever govern
- Every large damages demand transfers the charge
- The victim can select the forum by a number
- The criminal grant is not displaced by that amount alone
- The charge becomes a civil complaint automatically
Legal references
- BP129 Section32 as amended by RA7691 Section2 (criminal allocation, not old civil thresholds): https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1994/ra_7691_1994.html
- GR45815, prescribed penalty rather than sentence ultimately imposed determines criminal subject jurisdiction: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1990/may1990/gr_45815_1990.html
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