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Estafa by taking advantage of signature is committed by any person who defrauds another with unfaithfulness or abuse of confidence by taking undue advanta…

Section 1 of PD 1689 states that Syndicated Estafa is committed as follows: Section 1. Any person or persons who shall commit estafa or other forms of swi…

Art. 248.  Penalty for complex crimes. - When a single act constitutes two or more grave or less grave felonies, or when an offense is a necessary m…

Art. 248.  Penalty for complex crimes. - When a single act constitutes two or more grave or less grave felonies, or when an offense is a necessary m…

Generic aggravating circumstance Recidivism is a generic aggravating circumstance under Article 14 (9) of the Revised Penal Code. Who is a recidivist? A r…

● The elements of qualified theft, punishable under Article 310 in relation to Articles 308 and 309 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC), are: (a) the taking o…

●   Plea bargaining in criminal cases is a process whereby the accused and the prosecution work out a mutually satisfactory disposition of the case subjec…

● Yet a defendant has no constitutional right to plea bargain. No basic rights are infringed by trying him rather than accepting a plea of guilty; the pro…

●  Plea bargaining is allowed during the arraignment, the pre-trial, or even up to the point when the prosecution already rested its case  (Estipona v. Lo…