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PEOPLE vs Robert Figueroa & Beatrice Valerio

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROBERT FIGUEROA and BEATRICE VALERIO, accused. ROBERT FIGUEROA, accused-appellant.

G.R No. 134056 | 2000-07-06

D E C I S I O N
DAVIDE, JR., C.J.:
Accused-appellant ROBERT FIGUEROA (hereafter OBET) appeals from the 18 May 1998 Decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Parañaque City, Branch 259, in Criminal Case No. 97-306, convicting him of violation of Section 14-A[2], Article III of R.A. No. 6425, otherwise known as the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972, as amended by RA. No. 7659. His co-accused Beatrice Valerio (hereafter Betty) was acquitted.
OBET and Betty were indicted under an information, dated 2 April 1997, whose accusatory portion reads as follows:
That on 16 February 1997 and for sometime prior thereto in Parañaque City and...