Practice question
Officers personally observe an imprisonment-punishable ordinance violation and lawfully arrest under Rule113. Counsel argues an ordinance can never support an incident search because it is not an Act of Congress. Which is correct?
- All ordinance searches are valid regardless of arrest
- Every ordinance arrest is necessarily void
- Only national felony arrests can support any search
- The officer must ignore every local penal law
- Patotoy rejects that categorical distinction where the arrest is lawful
Legal references
- Rule126 Sections1–13: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_110-127_crim.html
- Patotoy v. People, G.R.257910, March4,2025, MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/mar2025/gr_257910_2025.html
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