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PEOPLE vs. RODERICK LICAYAN @ RUDY, ROBERTO LARA @ TUNGKOY/UNYOK, PEDRO MABANSAG @ PUTOL (At large), ALEX PLACIO (At large), JOJO SAJORGO (At large), ALLAN PLACIO (At large), NOEL DELOS REYES (At large), DODONG ADOLFO (At large), and BENJIE MABANSAG (At large), accused, / RODERICK LICAYAN @ RUDY, ROBERTO LARA @ TUNGKOY/UNYOK

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RODERICK LICAYAN @ RUDY, ROBERTO LARA @ TUNGKOY/UNYOK, PEDRO MABANSAG @ PUTOL (At large), ALEX PLACIO (At large), JOJO SAJORGO (At large), ALLAN PLACIO (At large), NOEL DELOS REYES (At large), DODONG ADOLFO (At large), and BENJIE MABANSAG (At large), accused, / RODERICK LICAYAN @ RUDY, ROBERTO LARA @ TUNGKOY/UNYOK, accused-appellants.

G. R. Nos. 140900 & 140911 | 2001-08-15

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

This is an automatic review of the Consolidated Decision,[1] dated September 9, 1999, of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 272, Marikina City, finding accused-appellants Roderick Licayan and Roberto Lara guilty of Kidnapping for Ransom under Art. 267 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, and sentencing them to suffer the penalty of death by lethal injection and to indemnify private complainants in the amount of P100,000.00, as moral and exemplary damages, and the additional amount of P20,000.00 for Private Complainant Joseph Co as actual damages. Accused-appellants were acquitted of the crime of Robbery.

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