Practice question
Did later delivery of privately discovered material to authorities necessarily convert Marti’s earlier independent private search into a State search?
- Yes, later delivery automatically changes the original actor and purpose.
- Yes, chronology can never matter.
- No.
- Yes, every courier is always an undercover officer.
- Yes, all later evidence use proves police initiated the search.
Legal references
- People v. Marti, G.R. No. 81561, January 18, 1991, MAIN decision, genuinely private search without State intervention: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1991/jan1991/gr_81561_1991.html
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