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Mindanao university ordered to close law programs

  The Legal Education Board (LEB) has ordered the Mindanao State University to close its law programs in all its campuses starting academic year 2025-2026 after it approved a resolution canceling MSU’s accreditation. The order stemmed from MSU’s refusal to recognize LEB’s supervisory authority and for asserting that it is not bound by the board’s orders, policies and guidelines on legal education. “The MSU is no longer authorized to offer the basic law program in the country,”  the LEB said. The board made permanent the cease and desist order it issued against MSU’s extension law programs on its campuses in Tawi-Tawi, Sulu and Maguindanao. It expressed concern over what it described as MSU’s “dismal” performance in the Bar examinations, noting the school’s passing rate since 2013 has been below the national passing percentage. Reacting to the LEB’s resolution, the MSU said it would continue to operate in accordance with its chapter passed by Congress in 1955. “The LEB cannot act no

The finders keepers | SC - ..the failure, per se, to turn it over to the mayor does not constitute the crime of theft.


 

As it stands now, the proper thing for a finder of a lost property of unknown owner, except hidden treasure, to do is to return or turn it over to the proper authority, who is the mayor of the city or municipality where the finding has taken place. 


Thereafter, the provision in Article 719 shall apply. Nevertheless, the failure, per se, to turn it over to the mayor does not constitute the crime of theft. People v. Rodrigo instructs that there must be a deliberate failure on the part of the finder to return the lost thing. Thus:


[U]nder paragraph 2, subparagraph (1), the elements are (1) the finding of lost property; and (2) the failure of the finder to deliver the same to the local authorities or to its owner.


 In this kind of theft intent of gain is inferred from the deliberate failure to deliver the lost property to the proper person, the finder knowing that the property does not belong to him.


[ G.R. No. 218969, January 18, 2021 ]

FERNANDO PANTE Y RANGASA PETITIONER, VS. PP, SEPARATE CONCURRING OPINION

✍️ DELOS SANTOS, J.

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