title 3 penalties Flashcards
suffering inflicted by the State for the
transgression of a law
PENALTY
A transgression is something that is against a command or law.
According to Reyes, Art. 22 is NOT applicable
to the provisions of the RPC.
Art. 22. RETROACTIVE EFFECT OF PENAL LAWS
When retrospective application will be favorable to the person guilty of a felony;
Provided that:
1. The offender is NOT a habitual criminal (delinquent) under Art. 62(5);
2. The new or amendatory law does NOT provide against its retrospective application.
RETROACTIVE EFFECT OF PENAL LAWS
A person who, within a period of ten years from the date of his release or last conviction of the crimes of serious or less serious physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa, or falsification, is found guilty of any said crimes a third time or oftener.
HABITUAL DELINQUENT
An act which when committed was not a crime, cannot be made so by statute without violating the constitutional inhibition as to (blank).
- Makes criminal an act done before the passage of the law and which was innocent when done;
- Aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed.
- Changes the punishment and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed;
- Alters the legal rules of evidence, and authorizes conviction upon a less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense;
- Assumes to regulate civil rights and remedies only, in effect imposing a penalty or deprivation of a right for something which when done was lawful; and
- Deprives a person accused of a crime of some lawful protection to which he has become entitled, such as the protection of a former conviction or acquittal, or a proclamation of amnesty.
Ex post facto laws
A legislative act which inflicts punishment without trial
BILL OF ATTAINDER
Pardon by the offended party does not extinguish the criminal liability of the offender. REASON: A crime committed is an offense against the State. Only the (blank) can pardon the offenders.
Chief Executive
Pardon by the offended party will bar criminal prosecution
EXPRESS or IMPLIED pardon must be given by offended party to BOTH offenders.
Pardon must be given PRIOR to institution of criminal action.
Adultery and Concubinage (Art. 344, RPC)
Pardon by the offended party will bar criminal prosecution
EXPRESS pardon given by offended party or her parents or grandparents or guardian
Pardon must be given PRIOR to the institution of the criminal action.
However, marriage between the offender and the offended party EVEN AFTER the institution of the
criminal action or conviction of the offender will extinguish the criminal action or remit the penalty already
imposed against the offender, his coprincipals, accomplices and accessories after the fact.
Seduction, Abduction, Acts of Lasciviousness (Art. 344, RPC)
The subsequent valid marriage between the offender and the offended party shall extinguish criminal liability or the penalty imposed. In case the legal husband is the offender, subsequent forgiveness by the wife as offended party shall also produce the same effect.
Rape (as amended by R.A. 8353)
Pardon by the offended party under Art. 344 is
ONLY A BAR to (blank1) ; it is NOT
a ground for extinguishment of criminal liability.
It DOES NOT extinguish criminal liability. It is
not one of the causes that totally extinguish
criminal liability in Art 89
Nevertheless, civil liability may be extinguished
by the (blank2) of the offended
party.Civil liability w/ regard to the interest of
the injured party is extinguished by the latter’s
express waiver because personal injury may
be repaired through indemnity. Waiver must be
express. State has no reason to insist on its
payment.
Adultery and Concubinage (Art. 344, RPC)
Seduction, Abduction, Acts of Lasciviousness (Art. 344, RPC)
1. criminal prosecution
ART. 89: HOW CRIMINAL LIABILITY IS TOTALLY
EXTINGUISHED
2. EXRESS WAIVER
Produced by the disturbance and alarm which are the outcome of the offense.
Is sought to be repaired through the imposition of the
corresponding penalty.
The offended party cannot pardon the
offender so as to relieve him of the penalty.
SOCIAL INJURY
Caused to the victim of the crime who suffered
damage either to his person, to his property, to
his honor or to her chastity. Is repaired through
indemnity. The offended party may waive the indemnity and the State has no reason to insist in its payment.
PERSONAL INJURY
Fines:
1. Afflictive
– over 6000
Fines:
2. Correctional
– 201 to 6000
Fines:
3. Light
– 200 and less
Applicable in determining the prescriptive period of `felonies
Article 9
Applicable in determining the prescriptive period of penalties
ART. 26: WHEN AFFLICTIVE, CORRECTIONAL,
OR LIGHT PENALTY
Duration of Penalties
Reclusión perpetua
– 20 years and 1 day to 40 years
Duration of Penalties
Reclusión temporal
– 12 years and 1 day to 20 years