Remedy of Certiorari
Remedy of Certiorari
Remedy of Certiorari
and
documents
relevant
thereto,
and
sworn
The petition shall be filed not later than sixty (60) days from
notice of judgment, order of resolution. In case a motion for
reconsideration or new trial is timely filed, whether such motion
is required or not, the sixty (60) day period shall be counted from
notice of the denial of said motion.
The 60-day period starts to run from the date petitioner receives
the assailed judgment, final order or resolution, or the denial of
the motion for reconsideration or new trial timely file.
would be useless.
6. Where, in a criminal case, relief from an order of arrest is urgent
and the granting of such relief by the trial court is improbable
7. Lack of due process
8. Where the proceedings were ex parte or in which the petitioner
had no opportunity to object
9. Where the issue raised is one purely of law or where public
interest is involved.
The rule is that the prosecution cannot appeal or bring error
proceedings from judgment rendered in favor of the defendant in a
criminal case. The reason is that judgment of acquittal is immediately
final and executory, and the prosecution, and the prosecution is barred
from appealing lest the constitutional prohibition against double
jeopardy be violated.
EXECUTION OF JUDGMENT
A decision that has acquired finality becomes immutable and
unalterable and may no longer be modified in any respect even if the
modification is intended to correct erroneous conclusions of fact or law
and whether it will be made by the court that rendered it or by the
highest court of the land. The judgment is executor.