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Three suspects were killed in shootouts with the police in their residences in Tanauan, Batangas on May 22, 2008. In September 2008, the kin of the suspects, accompanied by lawyer Harry Roque who denied their slain relatives' involvement in the robbery filed charges against the police using reports by the Commission on Human Rights as their ...
Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.They include assassinations; deaths due to strafing or indiscriminate firing; massacre; summary execution is done if the victim becomes passive before the moment of death (i.e., abduction leading to death); assassination means forthwith or ...
Wesley Barayuga was a former police officer who held the rank of police brigadier. [3] He attended the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in 1983 as part of Matikas class. He is a graduate of University of San Agustin in Iloilo City where he obtained a law degree in 1996. [4] From 2006 to 2008, he was Iloilo City Police Office director. [5]
Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, a type of civil court below Regional Trial Courts: OCA N/A: English Office of the Court Administrator: petitioner [2] N/A: English A plaintiff. petitioner-in-intervention N/A: English An intervenor who supports the case of the petitioner. [11] Cf. intervenor-oppositor. ponencia [2] report Spanish The Court's ...
Leong was sentenced to death and hanged for the cold-blooded murder on 30 November 2007 after a highly reported 16-day trial. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Many people suspected the Orchard Road murder to be a copy-cat of the Kallang River body parts murder, and compared the coincidental similarities between both cases, including the birthdays of the killers ...
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court found that the three women had been sexually assaulted and mutilated. In her 761-page decision, Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes cited the findings of Dr. Dean Cabrera, a medico-legal officer from the Philippines National Police Crime Laboratory who conducted forensic science examinations on the women victims. [86 ...
Believed to be work-related. A month before, Cuesta had reported in his program water contamination in a village, with an association later investigated. He then received death threats. On July 13, 2009, the Supreme Court granted a petition to transfer the trial for the murder from General Santos to Makati. A police inspector related to the ...
The online publication Bulatlat states that "[A]ccording to a recent international fact-finding mission of Dutch and Belgian judges and lawyers, [the government-created body] Task Force Usig 'has not proven to be an independent body…the PNP has a poor record as far as the effective investigation of the killings is concerned and is mistrusted by the Philippine people". [7]