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PEOPLE vs Gerardo Gonzales y Maristanes

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GERARDO GONZALES y MARISTA?ES, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 143805 | 2002-04-11

Entrapment

Facts:

Accused-appellant was apprehended in a buy-bust operation. Seized from the accused is 279.18 grams of shabu.
during the operation, 3 one thousand peso bill and a bundle of boodle money was handed over to the accused.

The accused was sentenced to suffer the penalty of death.

The accused claims that what was conducted by the police operatives was not an entrapment but an instigation; and that the trial court erred in sentencing him to suffer the penalty of death.


D E C I S I O N

PUNO, J.:

Accused GERARDO "Gerry" GONZALES y MARISTAá'ES is a police officer who was separated from service in 1986 on the ground of...