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PEOPLE Vs. Marcos P. Jimenez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARCOS P. JIMENEZ and ROBERT JIMENEZ, accused-appellants. The Solicitor General for plaintiff-appellee. Sisenando Y. Famoso for accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 82604 | 1991-12-10

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, C.J.:

The failure of the police authorities to observe the constitutional safeguards governing custodial interrogation impels rejection of the extrajudicial confession ascribed to one of the appellants and consequent reversal of the Trial Court's verdict of conviction chiefly based thereon.

On August 13, 1985 the police officers at the Ginatilan, Cebu station received a report that one Pelagio Jimenez had been found dead at barangay Guiwanon, "below the cliff near the balite tree." Without much loss of time, Pat. Reynaldo Cinco and other policemen went to the scene to conduct an investigation. The Municipal...