1. Enumerate the differences between pardon and amnesty. 2.5%
2. Under Presidential Proclamation No. 724, amending Presidential Proclamation No. 347, certain crimes are covered by the grant of amnesty. Name at least 5 of these crimes. 2.5%
3. Can former DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman apply for amnesty?
How about columnist Randy David? (You are supposed to know the crimes or offenses ascribed to them as published in almost all newspapers for the past several months.) 2.5%
4. General Lim and General Querubin of the Scout Rangers and Philippine Marines, respectively, were charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman under the Articles of War.
Can they apply for amnesty? 2.5%
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The differences between pardon and amnesty are the following:
a. Pardon is a private act of the Chief Executive which the courts do not take judicial notice of; Amnesty, being by Proclamation of the Chief Executive with the concurrence of Congress, is a public act of which the courts should take judicial notice.
b. Pardon includes any crime and is granted to convicts individually; Amnesty is a blanket pardon to classes of persons or communities who may be guilty of political offenses;
c. Pardon is granted to a person after conviction; Amnesty may be exercised even before the institution of the criminal action;
d. Pardon looks forward and relieves the offender from the consequences of an offense of which he has been convicted, that is, it abolishes or forgives the punishment; Amnesty looks backward and abolishes and puts into oblivion the offense itself, it so overlooks and obliterates the offense with which is charged that the person released by amnesty stands before the law precisely as though he had committed no offense.
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