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People vs. Garcia y Caragay, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JEFFREY GARCIA y CARAGAY and THREE JOHN DOES, accused, JEFFREY GARCIA y CARAGAY, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 141125 | 2002-02-28

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

This is an automatic review pursuant to Article 47 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended by Section 22 of Republic Act No. 7659, of the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Baguio City, Branch 6, dated October 28, 1999, convicting accused-appellant Jeffrey Garcia y Caragay of Forcible Abduction with Rape and three counts of Rape, and sentencing him to death. [1]

The victim, Cleopatra Changlapon, was nineteen years old and a sophomore student of B.S. Physical Therapy at the Baguio Central University. On July 14, 1998, she left school at 6:30 p.m. to go home to Km. 3, La Trinidad, Benguet. As she was crossing...