CRIMINAL LAW BOOK 1

MIST | 2ND Semester 2021

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-This assessment will be due on 6:00pm of 21 March 2021. LATE submission will NOT be
accepted, and will be considered NOT submitted.

-Late submission due to “weak or no internet connection” will not be entertained.

You are aware that we have a scheduled SUNDAY assessment due on the same day. It is
your own lookout to make sure you have a connection to be able to submit/comply within
the prescribed period.

-NOT following instructions will merit a FIFTY (50%) percent deduction from the total
score. Please read carefully and follow any and all instructions.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
(1) This assessment is worth 20 points only.
(2) Write true if the statement is correct, or false if it is wrong.
(2) Submit your answers via Messenger to:
https://www.facebook.com/BaynosaLaw
(3) You can submit your answers by means of:
a. Regular chat message; or
b. Write down your answers in a yellow pad paper and send it as a
picture, with full compliance of the format below.

(4) Strictly Follow the following format:

MIST 21 March 2021
SURNAME, GIVEN NAME
SECTION/CLASS
Full time or Working student
Age & Civil Status
Specific Place of Residence

True of False
1.
2.
3.
x.
x.
20.
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 TRUE OR FALSE
*Reminder: always prepare/download a dictionary*

1. A crime is an act or omission in violation of a law commanding it or

prohibiting it.

2. No ex post facto law can be enacted in the Philippines.

3. No bill of attainer shall be enacted in the Philippines.

4. A person caught in flagrante delicto shooting and killing another and

caught on CCTV, and video recorded by bystanders, is still presumed
innocent upon arrest.

5. Philippine Criminal laws are binding on all persons who are in the
Philippines, including foreigners.

6. An American citizen can be prosecuted and convicted of illegal

possession of firearms in the Philippines.

7. An American soldier can be prosecuted and convicted of rape in the

Philippines.

8. The American President Joe Biden can shoot and kill anyone in the
Philippines and he cannot be prosecuted or convicted.

9. Philippine criminal laws does not apply to the Chinese President Xi

Jinping.

10. A Consul is not entitled to the same immunity of foreign Presidents.

11. A Consul exercises the same functions as an Ambassador.

12. An act in violation of a tradition or practice is a crime in Philippine

Common laws.

13. Court decisions convicting criminals are sound sources of criminal law.

14. Congress can pass a law which authorizes the arrest and imprisonment
of declared and identified communist terrorists without trial.
15. Congress can pass a penal law which can apply to past actions.

16. An American caught using prohibited drugs in Manila, can only be

arrested and deported, but cannot be tried and convicted.

17. Chinese Citizens committing a crime in the Philippines can only be

arrested and deported, but cannot be tried and convicted.

18. Only Congress(Senate and House of Representatives),the President of

the Philippines, and the Supreme Court can make penal laws.

19. The President can make a criminal law only allowing one rider in each
motorcycle.

20. If the President makes a law prohibiting two riders on a motorcycle

immediately effective today (21 March 2021), he can still make it applicable
to all motorcycle riders violating the law committed since the pandemic
began in 01 February 2020.
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NOTA BENE:

MAKE SURE YOU REVIEW THESE QUESTIONS AND KNOW THE RESPECTIVE ANSWERS.
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