The Line-up

I only allowed myself a few minutes to spare for this post so I better hurry. It was our first meeting in Criminal Law 1 earlier. We were really nervous waiting for our professor. There have been rumors that we will be under the legendary Atty. Maximo Amurao but then i didn't believe until a very tall, old, no nonsense man entered the room. Everybody was quiet because his voice was too not loud, I cant remember the opposite of loud. LOL. He went on to discuss the rules in class. Everyday will be graded recitation, only hand written notes are allowed in class, and we were lucky because his book has already been published so we can open it in class provided we were not the one answering the question because if you are, of course you cannot open anything. We can maximize absences subject to the maximum allowable absences as required by the school.
According to stories, Atty. Amurao is very strict in everything. Last semester for their Criminal 2 class, no one passed the course. The previous years, only 2 o 3 people pass his subject. No one really wants to be under him. As for first impression, he is really a no nonsense man. He even told us he is doing this for our own good what if he says we are already litigators and during the trial we run out of arguments, will we say, "excuse me your honor pls give me an hour to review" of course we cannot, so as early as this stage in our study of Law, we will undergo his scrutiny, one thing that he does best. He told us, we will pray that during his class a storm will land so classes will be suspended or there be a bog flooding so we cant see him. We can curse and plan to kill him in our minds but of course not put that into action because we can be criminally liable for doing that. He says if we survive his course, we will be very thankful to him. He even shared that some of his students who already took and passed the Bar sometimes go to him and tell him that during the Criminal Law part of the Bar, they saw his face in the questionnaire and were transported back to their classes under him. In that way, he said, they remember that he is behind their back and helping them answering the questions. He is that sweet. LOL

He said, after your first year and you pass all your subjects, you get a big A. After second year and you pass all your subjects you get the big T. After third year and you again pass all your subjects, you get another T. After fourth year and you again pass everything, you get a big Y. If you take the Bar and you pass, you get the big period. (He wrote it in the board so it became more dramatic). Try to get your first A after first year.

Other professors for our other subjects were as follows: for Persons and Family Relations, Judge Andres Soriano; for Constitutional Law, Commissioner Wilhelm Soriano of the Human Rights; for Statutory Construction, Atty. Marites Pahate; for the other subject, Logic and Legal Writing and Legal Research we haven't met the professor yet.

I hope all of us in the class, will pass Crim Law after this sem. As for me, I will work hard to get that. Until next time.