Court Administrator holds position on proposed amendments of the Revised Penal Code

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The Office of the Court Administrator has refrained to give its position on a measure seeking to repeal the provision of the Revised Penal Code limiting to 40 years the maximum period that a convict must serve in prison even if penalized to a number of life imprisonment terms.

In a letter to the House Committee on Justice dated November 4, 2019, Court Administrator Jose Midas P. Marquez begged off not to comment on House Bill 4553, principally authored by Leyte Rep. Vicente “Ching” Veloso.

“If the case of convicts of heinous crimes sentenced with nine reclusion perpetua, even after applying the threefold rule under Article 70 of the RPC, the convict will only be made to serve 40 years of imprisonment–no distinction with those convicted of one count of murder to serve only one reclusion perpetua sentence. It is as if there is simultaneous service of sentences when the provision of the law mandates “successive service” of sentences,” he explained.

“They have to take that neutral position as future Arbiter of a potential dispute,” the House leader said in an interview.

 

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