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Dr Honorata Baylon vs Ombudsman & Sandiganbayan

DR. HONORATA BAYLON, petitioner, vs. OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN AND SANDIGANBAYAN, respondents.

G.R. No. 142738 | 2001-12-14

D E C I S I O N

PARDO, J.:

"Agencies tasked with the preliminary investigation and prosecution of crimes must always be wary of undertones of political harassment. They should never forget that the purpose of a preliminary investigation is to secure the innocent against hasty, malicious and oppressive prosecution, and to protect one from an open and public accusation of a crime, from the trouble, expense and anxiety of a public trial, and also to protect the State from useless and expensive trial. It is, therefore, imperative upon such agencies to relieve any person from the trauma of going through a trial once it is ascertained that the...