'Duress - national proceedings' in document 'Philippines - Revised Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Title One
FELONIES AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH AFFECT CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Chapter Two
JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES and Circumstances which Exempt from Criminal Liability

ARTICLE 12. Circumstances which exempt from criminal liability.
— the following are exempt from criminal liability :

5. Any person who acts under the compulsion of an irresistible force.

Title One
FELONIES AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH AFFECT CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Chapter Two
JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES and Circumstances which Exempt from Criminal Liability

ARTICLE 12. Circumstances which exempt from criminal liability.
— the following are exempt from criminal liability :

6. Any person who acts under the impulse of an uncontrollable fear of an equal or greater injury.