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6. What are the limitations on the pardoning power of the Chief executive.
- #7, page 128 Boado
7. When does judgment of conviction become final.
- #8, page 129, Boado
8. What is the effect of an appeal of judgment of conviction on the power of the
president to extend pardon.
-It is VOID because it constitutes a violation of the Constitution and jurisprudence.
- 4 December 1995 in People vs. Salle, the Supreme Court stated that:
We now declare that the conviction by final judgment limitation under Section 19,
Article VII of the [1987]present Constitution prohibits the grant of pardon,
whether full or conditional, to an accused during the pendency of his appeal from his
conviction by the trial court. Any application therefor, if one is made, should not be
acted upon or the process toward its grant should not be begun unless the appeal is
withdrawn. Accordingly, the agencies or instrumentalities of the Government concerned
must require proof from the accused that he has not appealed from his conviction or
that he has withdrawn his appeal. Such proof may be in the form of a certification
issued by the trial court or the appellate court, as the case may be. The acceptance of
the pardon shall not operate as an abandonment or waiver of the appeal, and the
release of an accused by virtue of a pardon, commutation of sentence, or parole before
the withdrawal of an appeal shall render those responsible therefor administratively
liable. Accordingly, those in custody of the accused must not solely rely on the pardon
as a basis for the release of the accused from confinement.
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This rule shall fully bind pardons extended after 31 January 1995 during the pendency
of the grantees appeal.
9. What is amnesty.
- is an act of sovereign power granting oblivion or a general pardon for a past offense,
and is rarely, if ever, exercised in favour of a single individual, and is usually exerted
in behalf of certain classes of person, who are subject to trial but have not yet been
convicted.
- Completely extinguishes the penalty and all its effects
10. Distinguish between amnesty and absolute pardon.
- #6, page 128 Boado
+ parole the parole granted to a convict by the Parole Board should be added. A
parole may be granted to a prisoner after serving the minimum penalty under the
Indeterminate Sentence Law.
Parole- consists in the suspension of the sentence of a convict after serving the
minimum return of the indeterminate penalty, without granting a pardon,
prescribing the terms upon which the sentence shall be suspended.
Outline of art 95
a. He must comply strictly with the conditions imposed in the pardon.
b. Failure to comply with the conditions shall result in the revocation of the pardon.
Under Sec 64(i), R.A.C., the Chief Executive may order his arrest and reincarceration.
(People vs Aglahi)
c. He becomes liable under Art 159. This is the judicial remedy.
Art 159, RPC: Other cases of evasion of service of sentence the penalty of prision
correccional in its minimum period shall be imposed upon the convict who, having been
granted conditional pardon by the Chief Executive, shall violate any of the condition of
such pardon. However, if the penalty remitted by the granting of such pardon be higher
than six years, the convict shall then suffer the unexpired portion of his original
sentence.
3. May the grant of conditional pardon be subject to the review of the courts.
-the exercise of the presidential judgment is beyond judicial scrutiny.
-#6, page 134, Boado
4. Is petition for writ of habeas corpus the remedy for a person incarcerated
because of violation of the terms of conditional pardon.
-Habeas corpus is not the remedy of the reincarcerated pardonee.
-#7, page 134, Boado
5. What are the effects of conditional pardon as to the civil liability.
- A conditional pardon, when granted, does NOT extinguish the civil liability arising
from the crime. (Monsanto vs Factoran, Jr.)
6. What is the consequence of a violation of the conditions of conditional
pardon.
a. Rearrested and reincarcerated by order of the President under the Revised
Administrative Code, OR
b. Prosecuted under Art 159 of the RPC
3. Compare the effect of death on civil liability ex-delicto and civil liability based
on quasi-delict.
-#4, page 128, Boado
-Death of accused will extinguish civil liability ex-delicto but not the civil liability based
quasi-delict. The general rule is that death of the accused extinguishes criminal liability
as well as the civil liability arising from the offense committed. Thus, the claim for civil
liability survives notwithstanding the death of the accused, if the same may be
predicated on a source of obligation other than delict, such as law, contracts, quasi-
contracts, and quasi-delicts.
-(People vs Abungan 2000, citing People vs Bayotas):
"1. Death of the accused pending appeal of his conviction extinguishes his criminal
liability as well as the civil liability based solely thereon. As opined by Justice Regalado,
in this regard, 'the death of the accused prior to final judgment terminates his criminal
liability and only the civil liability directly arising from and based solely on the offense
committed, i.e., civil liability ex delicto in senso strictiore.'"
"2. Corollarily, the claim for civil liability survives notwithstanding the death of (the)
accused, if the same may also be predicated on a source of obligation other than
delict. Article 1157 of the Civil Code enumerates these other sources of obligation from
which the civil liability may arise as a result of the same act or omission:
a) Law b) Contracts c) Quasi-contracts d) Delicts/Crime e) Quasi-delicts
"3. Where the civil liability survives, as explained in Number 2 above, an action for
recovery therefor may be pursued but only by way of filing a separate civil action and
subject to Section 1, Rule 111 of the 1985 Rules on Criminal Procedure as
amended. This separate civil action may be enforced either against the
executor/administrator or the estate of the accused, depending on the source of
obligation upon which the same is based as explained above.
"4. Finally, the private offended party need not fear a forfeiture of his right to file this
separate civil action by prescription, in cases where during the prosecution of the
criminal action and prior to its extinction, the private offended party instituted together
therewith the civil action. In such case, the statute of limitations on the civil liability is
deemed interrupted during the pendency of the criminal case, conformably with the
provisions of Article 1155 of the Civil Code, that should thereby avoid any apprehension
on a possible privation of right by prescription."
In the present case, it is clear that, following the above disquisition in Bayotas, the
death of appellant extinguished his criminal liability. Moreover, because he died during
the pendency of the appeal and before the finality of the judgment against him, his civil
liability arising from the crime or delict (civil liability ex delicto) was also
extinguished. It must be added, though, that his civil liability may be based on sources
of obligation other than delict. For this reason, the victims may file a separate civil
action against his estate, as may be warranted by law and procedural rules.
Moreover, we hold that the death of Appellant Abungan would result in the dismissal of
the criminal case against him.[11] Necessarily, the lower court's Decision -- finding him
guilty and sentencing him to suffer reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the heirs of the
deceased -- becomes ineffectual.