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People vs. Court of Appeals 291 SCRA 400

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, represented by Provincial Prosecutor FAUSTINO T. CHIONG, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, JUDGE CAESAR CASANOVA, Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Branch 80, Malolos, Bulacan, AZFAR HUSSAIN, MOHAMMAD SAGED, MUJAHID KHAN, MOHAMMAD ASLAM and MEHMOOD ALI, respondents.

G.R. No. 126379 | 1998-06-26

D E C I S I O N

NARVASA, C .J:

In behalf of the People, the Solicitor General has perfected the appeal at bar under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court from the Decision promulgated on September 11, 1996 of the Fourteenth Division of the Court of Appeals. 1 Said judgment dismissed the People's petition for certiorari to invalidate (i) the Order of Judge Caesar A. Casanova of Branch 80 of the Regional Trial Court dated February 9, 1996, 2 as well as (ii) that dated May 28, 1996 denying the People's motion for reconsideration. 3 Those orders were handed down in Criminal Case No. 43-M-96, a case of illegal possession of explosives, after the accused...