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Module 2-General Principles of Criminal Liability

This document provides an outline of the topics and cases covered in Module 2 on general principles of criminal liability. The module will discuss the elements of a felony and criminal liability, including the physical and mental elements. It will address concepts like actus reus, mens rea, deliberate intent (dolo), constructive intent (culpa), transferred intent, concurrence of acts, resulting harm, and causation. Specific cases are cited relating to these concepts. The module will also cover impossible crimes as exceptions to criminal liability under certain circumstances.

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Module 2-General Principles of Criminal Liability

This document provides an outline of the topics and cases covered in Module 2 on general principles of criminal liability. The module will discuss the elements of a felony and criminal liability, including the physical and mental elements. It will address concepts like actus reus, mens rea, deliberate intent (dolo), constructive intent (culpa), transferred intent, concurrence of acts, resulting harm, and causation. Specific cases are cited relating to these concepts. The module will also cover impossible crimes as exceptions to criminal liability under certain circumstances.

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MODULE 2: GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

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MODULE 2: GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
(31 August to 12 Sept 2020)

TOPIC/CONTENT
I. Felony, defined (Art. 3, RPC)
II. Elements of criminal liability
A. Physical element (Actus reus)

a. Act
b. Omission

1. People v. Sylvestre and Atienza, G.R. No. 35748, 14 December 1931


2. People v. Talingdan, G.R. No. L-32126, 6 July 1978

B. Mental element (Mens rea)


a. Deliberate intent (Dolo)
3. Manuel v. People, G.R. No. 165842, 29 November 2005

i. Elements of dolo
ii. General and specific intent

4. People v. Puno, G.R. No. 97471, 17 February 1993


5. People v. Delim, G.R. No. 142773, 28 January 2003

iii. Intent distinguished from motive


iv. Mistake of fact

6. US v. Ah Chong, G.R. No. 5272, 19 March 1910


7. People v. Oanis, G.R. No. 47722, 27 July 1943

v. Malum prohibitum as exception to the requirement of mens rea

8. Padilla v. Dizon, A.C. No. 3086, 23 February 1988


9. Magno v. CA, G.R. No. 96132, 26 June 1992
10. Garcia v. CA, G.R. No. 157171, 14 March 2006

b. Constructive intent (Culpa) (Art. 3 and 365, RPC)


i. Elements
ii. Imprudence or lack of skill
iii. Negligence or lack of foresight

11. People v. Pugay, G.R. No. L-74324, 17 November 1988


12. Ivler v. San Pedro, G.R. No. 172716, 17 November 2010.

c. Transferred intent (Art. 4, par. 1, RPC)


MODULE 2: GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
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i. Aberratio ictus
13. People v. Guillen, G.R. No. L-1477, 18 January 1950
14. People v. Adriano, G.R. No. 205228, 15 July 2015

ii. Error in personae


People v. Sabalones, G.R. No. 123485, 31 August 1998

iii. Praeter intentionem


15. People v. Albuquerque, G.R. No. 38773, 19 December 1933

d. Concurrence
e. Resulting harm
f. Causation
16. Bataclan v. Medina, G.R. No. L-10126, 22 October 1957
17. People v. Iligan, G.R. No. 75369, 26 November 1990
18. Urbano v. Intermediate Appellate Court, G.R. No. 72964, 7 January 1988

III. Impossible Crimes (Art. 4, Par. 2, RPC)

19. Intod v. CA, G.R. No. 103119, 21 October 1992


20. People v. Saladino, G.R. No. L-3634, 30 May 1951
21. Jacinto v. People, G.R. No. 162540, 13 July 2009.

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