Practice question
Before finality, a party identifies a substantial matter potentially preventing a miscarriage of justice and requests reopening. The opponent says only a new-trial motion can ever permit further proceedings. Which is best?
- Section24 independently permits the court to consider reopening upon motion or its own initiative, with hearing
- The opponent is categorically correct
- The request automatically proves the new evidence true
- Reopening necessarily erases all prior evidence
- The moving party may dispense with judicial approval
Legal references
- Rule119 Section24: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_110-127_crim.html
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