Crimes Against The Fundamental Laws Of The State

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ARBITRARY DETENTION

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1. Offenders are only those public officers whose official duties carry with it the authority to make an arrest or detain a person.
2. He detains a person without legal grounds.
3. Makes an arrest without a warrant.

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DELAY IN THE DELIVERY OF DETAINED PERSONS TO THE PROPER JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES

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1. Offender is a public officer or employee.
2. He detains a person for some legal ground.
3. He fails to deliver such person to the proper judicial authority within:
a. 12 hours for light penalties.
b. 18 hours for correctional penalties.
c. 36 hours for afflictive penalties

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DELAYING RELEASE

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1. Delaying the performance of judicial or executive order for the release of a prisoner.
2. Unduly delaying the service of the notice of such order to said prisoner.
3. Unduly delaying the proceedings upon any petition for the liberation of such person.

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EXPULSION

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1. Expelling a person from the Philippines.
2. Compelling a person to change his residence.
3. Offender is not authorized to do so.

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VIOLATION OF DOMICILE

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1. Offender is a public officer or employee who has not been authorized by judicial order to enter the dwelling or to make a search therein for papers or other effects.
2. Entering the dwelling against the will of the owner, thereof.
3. Searching papers or other effects found therein without the previous consent of such owner;
4. Refusing to leave the premises, after having surreptitiously entered said dwelling and after having been required to leave the same.
QUALIFIED:
1. If committed at nighttime
2. If any papers or effects not constituting evidence of a crime are not returned immediately after the search made by the offender.

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SEARCH WARRANTS MALICIOUSLY OBTAINED AND ABUSE IN THE SERVICE OF THOSE LEGALLY OBTAINED

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1. Offender is a public officer or employee.
2. He procures a search warrant without just cause.
3. He exceeds his authority or uses unnecessary severity in executing the same.

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SEARCHING DOMICILE WITHOUT WITNESSES

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1. Offender is a public officer or employee.
2. He is armed with search warrant legally procured.
3. He searches the domicile, paprs, or other belongings of any person.
4. The owner or any members of his family or 2 witnesses residing in the same locality are not present.

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PROHIBITION, INTERRUPTION, OR DISSOLUTION OF PEACEFUL MEETINGS

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1. Offender is a public officer or employee.
2. He performs any of the following acts:
a. prohibiting or interrupting without legal ground the holding of a peaceful meeting or by dissolving the same.
b. hindering any person from joining any lawful association or attending any of its meetings.
c. prohibiting or hindering any person from addressing; either alone or together with others, any petition to the authorities for the correction of abuses or redress of grievances.

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INTERRUPTION OF RELGIOUS WORSHIP

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1. Offender is a public officer or employee.
2. Religious ceremonies or manifestations of any religious are about to take place or are going on.
3. Offender prevents or disturbs the same.
Qualified: if committed by violence or threat.

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OFFENDING RELIGIOUS FEELINGS

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1. Acts complained of were performed in a place devoted to religious worship or during the celebration of any religious ceremony.
2. The acts must be notoriously offensive to the feelings of the faithful.
3. There is deliberate intent.