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PEOPLE vs Antonio Paredes

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ANTONIO PAREDES y SAUQUILLO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 136105 | 2001-10-23

D E C I S I O N

DAVIDE, JR., C.J.:

Under automatic review is the decision[1] dated 30 September 1998 of the Regional Trial Court of Imus, Cavite, Branch 21 in Criminal Case No. 6332-98, finding accused-appellant Antonio Paredes y Sauquillo (hereafter ANTONIO), guilty of the violation of Section 15, Article III of Republic Act No. 6425, otherwise known as the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972, as further amended by R.A. No. 7659,[2] and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of death by lethal injection and to pay a fine of P500,000 and the costs.

ANTONIO was charged and tried under an Information[3] whose accusatory portion reads as follows:

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