Practice question
Police identify an event that happened only after they opened the vehicle’s closed compartment and use it as the sole justification for opening it. Which is correct?
- The driver must disprove later evidence first
- Later events necessarily create earlier cause
- Every opened compartment retrospectively becomes searchable
- Only the number of officers matters
- It cannot supply a pre-search circumstance under Evardo
Legal references
- People v. Sapla, G.R.244045, June16,2020, MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2020/jun2020/gr_244045_2020.html
- Evardo v. People, G.R.234317, May10,2021, MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2021/may2021/gr_234317_2021.html
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