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Placido L. Mapa, Jr., Et Al. Vs. Sandiganbayan

PLACIDO L. MAPA, JR., and J. LORENZO VERGARA, petitioners, vs. SANDIGANBAYAN, respondent.

G.R. No. 100295 | 1994-04-26

D E C I S I O N


PUNO, J.:

The denial of the right to be free from further prosecution of a cooperative witness who has been granted immunity is the core issue posed in this petition. On balance are important rights in conflict: the right of an individual who has surrendered his constitutional prerogative to be silent to the State to be exempt from further prosecution; the right of the State to prosecute all persons who appears to have committed a crime and its prerogative to revoke the immunity it has granted to an accused for breach of agreement; and the extent of the jurisdiction of the Sandiganbayan as an impartial tribunal to review...