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Jesusa Cruz vs Correctional Institution for Women

JESUSA CRUZ, petitioner, vs. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN IN MANDALUYONG, respondent.

G.R. No. 125672 | 1996-09-27

R E S O L U T I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:

After having served five and a half years of her life sentence, may petitioner who was convicted of selling 5.5. grams of prohibited drugs, namely, dried marijuana leaves be now entitled to the beneficent penalty provisions R.A. 7659 and be now released from imprisonment?

The Facts

Petitioner Jesusa Cruz, a.k.a. Jesusa Mediavilla, is at present confined at the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City serving the penalty of life imprisonment imposed upon her as consequence of her conviction on March 31, 1992 for violation of Section 4, Article II of R.A. 6425 otherwise known as the...