People V Sanchez: Page 1 of 4
People V Sanchez: Page 1 of 4
People V Sanchez: Page 1 of 4
PEOPLE V SANCHEZ
of the gargantuan damages awarded on the ground that the same have no
SPECIAL FIRST DIVISION factual and legal bases.
In the same vein, accused-appellants Zoilo Ama, Baldwin Brion, and
Pepito Kawit, in their motion for reconsideration, maintain that prosecution
[G.R. Nos. 121039-45. October 18, 2001] witnesses Centeno and Malabanan have been sufficiently impeached by
prior inconsistent statements allegedly pertaining to material and crucial
points of the events at issue. Not only that, they assert that independent and
disinterested witnesses have destroyed the prosecutions version of events.
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MAYOR Preliminarily, it may be observed that, except for the issue of civil
ANTONIO L. SANCHEZ, GEORGE MEDIALDEA, ZOILO AMA, damages raised by Mayor Sanchez, accused-appellants have not presented
BALDWIN BRION, LUIS CORCOLON, ROGELIO CORCOLON, any issue new or different from that which they had previously raised before
and PEPITO KAWIT, accused-appellants. the trial court and this Court. Moreover, the issues they have raised have
been discussed at length and passed upon by both the court a quo and by
RESOLUTION this Court. Thus, on the charge that accused-appellant Sanchez is a victim of
trial and conviction by publicity, in our January 25, 1999 decision,
MELO, J.:
citing People vs. Teehankee, Jr. (249 SCRA 54), we declared:
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