Practice question
Officers are refused admission to the place directed by a warrant after announcing purpose and authority. What does section 7 permit within its conditions?
- Breaking into any unrelated building.
- Punishing every occupant without trial.
- Breaking the specified doors or windows as necessary to execute the warrant or obtain the release described by the Rule.
- Destroying every item in the neighborhood.
- Ignoring the warrant’s place description.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_110-127_crim.html — Rule 126 sections 7–12: entry, presence, search time, ten-day validity, receipt and return.
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/assets/pdf/journals/Collation_and_Codification_of_SC_Issuance_DIGITAL.pdf — A.M. 21-06-08-SC, Rule 3 sections 3–8: search recording supplements other execution safeguards, PDF pages 704–706.
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