Title 2 - (124-133) Fundamental Laws of the State Flashcards
Title 2 of Book 2 of the RPC is
Crimes Against Fundamental Law of the State
1) How can you describe or characterize the crimes under this title?
Crimes under this title are those that violate the Bill of rights.
The crimes are committed by public officers exception for the crime under Article 133 which is committed by any person
The public officers that may be held liable are those acting under the supposed exercise of their official functions, although illegally.
2) Can private persons be held liable under this title?
Yes. Generally, the counterpart of the crimes under this title that is applicable for private individuals are those listed in
Title IX (Crimes Against Personal Liberty and Security).
However, the instances that a private person can be held liable under this title are as follows:
Offender is liable under Article 133. This crime does not require that a person is a public officer.
When a private person conspires with a public officer. What is required is that the principal offender must be a public officer. Thus, if private person conspires with a public officer, or becomes an accessory or an accomplice, the private person also becomes liable for the same crime.
But a private person acting alone cannot commit the crimes under Article 124 to article 132 of this title.
Name of Section of Crimes against the fundamental law of the state of title two
arbitrary detention and expulsion
3) What are the crimes against the fundamental laws of the state?
Arbitrary Detention (Art 124)
Delay in the delivery of detained persons to the proper judicial authority (Art 125)
Delaying release (Art 126)
Expulsion (Art 127)
Violation of domicile (Art 128)
Search warrants maliciously obtained and abuse in the service of those legally obtained (Art 129)
Searching domicile without witnesses (Art. 130)
Prohibition, interruption, and dissolution of peaceful meetings (Art 131)
Interruption of religious worship (Art 132)
Offending the religious feelings (Art 133)
1) What provision of the Constitution does these crimes violate?
(a) Articles 124,125, & 126
(b) 127
[a]
Section 1, Art III – no person shall be deprived of liberty without the due process of the law.
[b]
Section 6, Art III – the liberty of abode and of changing the same within the limits prescribed by law shall not be impaired except upon lawful order of the court. Neither shall the right to travel to be impaired except in the interest of national security, public safety, or public health, as may be provided by law
How is arbitrary detention committed? Enumerate its classes
It is committed when a public officer or employee detains or orders the detention of a person without legal grounds.
The three classes of arbitrary detention are:
Arbitrary detention by detaining a person without legal ground (Art. 124)
Delay in the delivery of detained persons to the proper judicial
authorities (Art. 125)
Delaying release (Art. 126)
Art 124
Arbitrary Detention
Who can commit the crime of arbitrary detention?
Public officers and employees who are vested with the authority to detain or order the detention of
persons accused of a crime. These include, but not limit to:
o Judges
o Police officers
o Mayors
o Barangay captains
Private individuals who conspire with public officers may be liable of arbitrary detention as accomplices
or accessories
What are the elements of arbitrary detention under this article?
Offender is a public officer or employee
He detains a person
The detention is without legal grounds
What are the requirements for public official or employees in arbitrary
detention?
They must be vested with the authority to detain or order the detention of persons accused of crimes but have no legal grounds to
do so. These includes policemen, other agents of the law, judges, or mayors, among others.
If the detention is perpetrated (carried out) by other public officers or private individuals, this may be considered as illegal detention under Art 267 & 268.
Private individuals who conspire with public officers are guilty of arbitrary detention under this provision.
When is there detention?
Detention is defined as the actual confinement of a person in an enclosure, OR in any manner detaining and depriving him of his liberty.
Essentially, there is detention when a person is placed in confinement OR when there is restraint upon his person.
Restraint may result from fear imposed by the offender to the victim.
When does the detention become arbitrary under this article?
When the arrest and consequent detention made upon a person is without legal grounds.
What are considered legal grounds for ARBITRARY DETENTION?
Under Art 124, the following are legal grounds for arbitrary detention:
(1) Commission of a crime
(2) Violent insanity
(3) Any other ailment requiring the compulsory confinement of a patient in a hospital
Note: that arrest without warrant is the usual cause of arbitrary detention.
when is ARREST lawful?
(1) There is a valid warrant issued for the arrest; or,
(2) There is a valid/lawful warrantless arrest. (Sec 5, Rule 113 Revised Rules
of Criminal Procedure):
The offender is in flagrante delicto – [when in his presence], the person to be arrested had committed, is actually committing, or is attempting to commit an offense
The authority is in hot pursuit of the offender – when an offense has in fact just been committed, and he has [probable cause] to believe based on personal knowledge of facts and circumstances that the person to be arrested has committed it
Offender is an escaped prisoner – when the person to be arrested is a prisoner who has escaped from a penal establishment or place where he is serving final judgement or temporarily confined while his case is pending, or has escaped while being transferred from one confinement to another.
ARTICLE 125. _______________________________________________________________
ARTICLE 125. DELAY IN THE DELIVERY OF DETAINED PERSONS TO THE PROPER
JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES
What are the elements of delayed delivery of the detained person to the
proper judicial authority?
(1) Offender is a public officer or employee;
(2) He detains a person for some legal ground;
(3) He fails to deliver such person to the proper judicial authorities within:
12 hours for crimes or offenses punishable by light penalties, or their equivalent
18 hours for crimes or offenses punishable by correctional penalties, or their equivalent
36 hours for crimes or offenses punishable by afflictive or capital penalties, or their equivalent
How is the person arrested “delivered” as provided in Art. 125?
The delivery to the judicial authority does NOT actually mean physical delivery, but
rather it means
- making an accusation or
- charge or filing an information against the accused..
..with the corresponding court judge, whereby the judge acquires jurisdiction to issue and order of release or commitment of the prisoner.
What is custodial investigation?
involves any questioning initiated by law enforcement authorities after a person is
taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant manner.
What is the nature of the arrest under this article? (125) When is the detention arbitrary?
The arrest here is lawful. It is the delay in the delivery of the arrested person to the
proper judicial authority that makes the consequent detention arbitrary.
What the mandatory duty of the arresting officer under RA 7438?
Sec. 2 (b) Any public officer or employee, or anyone acting under his order or his place, who arrests, detains OR investigates any person for the commission of an offense shall inform the latter, [in a language known to and understood by him], of his rights to
- (a) remain silent and to
- (b) have competent and independent counsel, preferably of his own choice, who shall at all times be allowed to confer privately with the person arrested, detained or under custodial investigation.
If such person cannot afford the services of his own counsel, he must be provided with a competent and independent counsel by the investigating officer.
What is the rationale for the provision of Art. 125?
To prevent any abuse resulting from confining a person without informing him of his offense and without permitting him
to go on bail.
To what do the words “judicial authority” refer?
The courts or justice or judges of said courts vested with judicial power to order the temporary detention or
confinement of a person charged with having committed a public offense. This refers to the SC and such inferior courts as may be established by law
Can arbitrary detention be committed through negligence?
Yes, it can be committed through negligence and imprudence.
In People v. Misa, a woman was rearrested by the chief of police because the latter did not believe that the woman was truly released already. Though the chief of police acted
without malice, he was found guilty of arbitrary detention through simple
imprudence for failing to verify the release before making the re-arrest by
talking directly to the justice of the peace.
Note that at the time, the justice of the peace was a court with no records. As
such, there was no actual warrant or other record which could be shown to
substantiate either an arrest or release
Does the law fix any minimum period of detention?
No, it does not.
In the cases of
US vs. Braganza and
US vs. Agravante, even when the persons were detained for an hour or less, the public officer detaining them were held liable for arbitrary detention.
Compare illegal detention from arbitrary detention
[AD]
- by public officer authorized. private may if
(a) they are accomplices/accessories to it (b) in conspiracy with
[ID]
- by private citizen or unauthorized to arrest
Compare Arbitrary Detention from Unlawful Arrest under Art. 269
[AD]
Arbitrary detention is
committed by a public officer authorized to arrest and detain a person but he
does so without lawful cause.
[UA]
Unlawful arrest (Article 269) is committed by either private individual or public officer who feigned to arrest a person without any legal cause, the purpose, which is the essence of unlawful arrest is to bring him to authority and file a charge.
If a charge is filed, the detention is deemed an incident of the arrest and the filing of charges against him. It is the arrest that is penalized in Article 269
[GPT-UA]
the focus is on penalizing the act of falsely arresting someone without legal cause. The person responsible for the unlawful arrest may still face criminal consequences for that specific act, regardless of any charges filed subsequently.
Compare the classes of arbitrary detention in Arts. 124 and 125.
[both]
public officer/employee
124 - unlawful
125 - lawful
124
illegal from the beginning since there was no legal ground
125
detention is legal but becomes illegal due to delay to deliver detained person to proper judicial authorities
ARTICLE 126. ____________________________-
ARTICLE 126. DELAYING RELEASE
What are the acts punishable under art. 126 on delaying release?
(1) Delaying the performance of judicial or executive order for the release of the prisoner
(2) Unduly delaying the service of such order to said prisoner
(3) Unduly delaying the proceedings upon any petition for the liberation of such person
What are the elements of delaying release?
Offender is a public officer or employee;
There is a judicial or executive order for the release of a prisoner or there is a proceeding upon any petition for the liberation of such person;
Offender, without good reason,
delays –
(1) Delaying the performance of judicial or executive order for the release of the prisoner
(2) Unduly delaying the service of such order to said prisoner
(3) Unduly delaying the proceedings upon any petition for the liberation of such person
What are the rights of the persondetained?
- right to counsel
- right to be informed of his right to remain silent and to counsel
- right to be allowed visits
What is the remedy when the warrant of arrest is improperly issued?
- Set aside the warrant of arrest and - order the discharge of the accused,
but without enjoining (preventing) the municipal judge from conducting a preliminary investigation and afterwards issuing a proper warrant.
Compare classes of arbitary detention under art. 125 & 126 insofar as constituting a crime is concerned
[125]
The violation arises from the delay in the delivery of the detained person to the proper judicial authority
[126]
The violation arises when the resulting order of release is unduly delayed by
the public officer or when there is a proceeding for the
liberation of the person detained, this is also unduly
delayed by the public officer.
Here, the detained person was timely delivered to the
proper judicial authority. A charge, a complaint, or an
information was filed in the timely manner pursuant to the requirements in Art
125.
[delaying proceeding ex]
- Failure to Schedule or Conduct Hearings
- Inefficiency/Negligence
ARTICLE 127. ______________________
ARTICLE 127. EXPULSION
What are the acts punishable as expulsion?
(1) Expelling the person from the Philippines
(2) Compelling the person to change his residence
What are the elements of the crime of expulsion?
That the offender is a public officer or employee
He either –
- Expels any person from the Philippines; or,
- Compels a person to change his residence
The offender is not authorized by law to do so
What is the crime of expulsion?
if committed by private person?
It is a crime committed by public officers and officials in violation of the constitutional rights of abode and changing the same under the Bill of
Rights.
If the same crime is committed by private individuals, the crime is grave coercion.
Who then are the persons authorized by law to expel or compel persons to change abode?
(1) The President of the Philippines in the exercise of his power of deportation
(2) The court by final judgment can order a person to change his
residence (e.g. destierro, ejectment, and expropriation)
section 2 name of title 2 of crimes against fundamental law of the state
violation of domicile
What provision of the Constitution does
these crimes (art 128, 129, 130 violate?
Sec 2, Art. III –“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures of whatever nature and for any purpose shall be inviolable, and no search warrant or warrant of arrest shall issue except upon probable cause to be determined personally by the judge after examination under oath or affirmation of the complainant and the
witnesses he may produce, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to
be seized.”
ARTICLE 128. _________
ARTICLE 128. VIOLATION OF DOMICILE
What are the acts punishable as violation of domicile?
(1) Entering the dwelling against the will of the owner thereof;
(2) Searching papers or other effects (personal properties/belongings) found therein without the previous consent of such owner; or,
(3) Refusing to leave the premises, after having surreptitiously (secretively) entered said dwelling and after having been required to leave the same
What are the common elements of the different acts punishable as violation of domicile?
Offender is a public officer or employee
He is not authorized by judicial order to enter the dwelling and/or to make a search therein for papers and other effects