Practice question
A company invokes Worldwide Web to take over direction of a separate criminal prosecution without public authority, arguing that it could seek reconsideration in the warrant proceeding. Is that inference sound?
- No; standing in the independent special process is not unrestricted control of the later criminal action.
- Yes, the two functions are legally identical.
- Yes, an applicant automatically acquires all public prosecutorial powers.
- Yes, any aggrieved party becomes the judge.
- Yes, prosecutor direction is abolished for all later prosecutions.
Legal references
- Worldwide Web Corp. v. People, G.R. No. 161106, January 13, 2014, MAIN decision, independent warrant proceeding, aggrieved-party standing and final-order distinction: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2014/jan2014/gr_161106_2014.html
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