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This document discusses the differences between crimes mala in se and crimes mala prohibita, as well as other key concepts in criminal law such as intent versus motive, territoriality of laws, and the general principles that govern interpretation and application of penal statutes.
Apr 16, 2024 · Supreme Court Associate Justice Mario V. Lopez, Chairperson of the 2024 Bar Examinations, delivers his keynote speech titled “LAMBIGIT: Fostering Community Ties Towards Creating Socially Conscious and Well-Equipped Contemporary Law Students” at the 34th National Convention of the Association of Law Students of the Philippines in Cagayan de Oro C...
He was the examiner in Criminal Law for the 2009 Bar Examination, and Legal Ethics for the 2017 Bar Examination. Before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Lopez served as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals for thirteen years.
Mar 2, 2021 · Supreme Court Associate Justice Mario Lopez spent more than an hour on Tuesday, March 2, grilling petitioners’ lawyers on criminal law – his expertise – but still rounded up his interpellations...
Sep 26, 2023 · Starting year 2021, J.Y. Lopez began appearing in several jurisprudences as the ponente. That is why, beginning in 2021 it was written as M.V. Lopez. With that being said, I adapted the notation from 2020 to read 'M.V. LOPEZ, J.` as the ponente discarding the other Lopez.
The medico-legal report materially corroborated complainant's tale of sexual ravishment. Time is not an element of the crime of rape, thus, whether the incident happened on April 2, 2015, or on another date is immaterial.
The overt acts described are done after commission of the target crime of terrorism. Further, the overt acts listed are not in preparation for committing terrorism or any other crime. In contrast, Sections 6, 7, 8, .10, 11, and 12 of RA No. 1 1479 are all inchoate crimes.
