Practice question
A departing passenger’s detector alert is followed by discovery of concealed packages during security screening. Does Canton require officials invariably to do nothing beyond refusing boarding?
- Yes, officials must always return suspected prohibited material without inquiry.
- Yes, airport security ends immediately when concealment is detected.
- Yes, refusal of boarding necessarily grants immunity from every offense.
- No; it rejects that categorical limit in the circumstances it examined.
- Yes, every later lawful arrest is prohibited.
Legal references
- People v. Canton, G.R. No. 148825, December 27, 2002, MAIN decision, airport-security doctrine (not its superseded RA 6425 penalty): https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2002/dec2002/gr_148825_2002.html
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