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Question I
TRUE or FALSE. Answer TRUE if the statement is true, or FALSE if the statement is false. Explain your answer in not more than two (2) sentences. (5%)
1. Amado, convicted of rape but granted an absolute pardon by the President, and one year thereafter, convicted of homicide, is a recidivist.
2. The creditor who resorts to forced labor of a child under the pretext of reimbursing himself for the debt incurred by the child's father commits the crime of slavery.
3. The use of an unlicensed firearm in homicide is considered a generic aggravating circumstance which can be offset by an ordinary mitigating circumstance.
4. A person who, on the occasion of a robbery, kills a bystander by accident is liable for two separate crimes: robbery and reckless imprudence resulting in homicide.
5. A policeman who, without a judicial order, enters a private house over the owner's opposition is guilty of trespass to dwelling.
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