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Aniceto Sabbun Maguddatu & Laureana Sabbun Maguddatu vs CA (4th Div) and PEOPLE

ANICETO SABBUN MAGUDDATU and LAUREANA SABBUN MAGUDDATU, petitioners, vs. Honorable COURT OF APPEALS (FOURTH DIVISION) and PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 139599 | 2000-02-23

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

For a human being who has been inside a prison cell, a bail bond represents his only ticket to liberty, albeit provisional. But the right to bail is not always a demandable right. In certain instances, it is a matter of discretion. This discretion, however, is not full and unfettered because the law and the rules set the parameters for its proper exercise. Discretion is, of course, a delicate thing and its abuse of such grave nature would warrant intervention of this Court by way of the special civil action for certiorari.

The primary issue in this case is whether or not under the facts thereof petitioners...