Practice question
A pension-receiving retired judge defends a former official charged only over a wholly private bar fight, stipulated unrelated to office. Does the office-related criminal clause apply merely because the client once worked for government?
- Yes, all crimes by anyone ever employed by government necessarily are office-related.
- Yes, retirement changes every private act into an official act.
- Yes, no nexus is part of the text.
- No; the stated relation-to-office nexus must also be present.
- Yes, the judge’s former station conclusively creates the nexus.
Legal references
- RA 910, Section 1 as amended by RA 9946, Section 1, pension conditions including surviving spouse, adverse-government civil cases and office-related criminal cases: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2010/ra_9946_2010.html
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