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Marvin Mercado vs PEOPLE

MARVIN MERCADO, petitioner, vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent.

G.R. No. 149375 | 2002-11-26

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

MARVIN MERCADO, together with Rommel Flores, Michael Cummins, Mark Vasques and Enrile Bertumen, was charged with and convicted of violation of R.A. 6538 or The Anti-Carnapping Act of 1972, as amended, for which he and his co-accused were sentenced to a prison term of twelve (12) years and one (1) day as minimum to seventeen (17) years and four (4) months of reclusion temporal as maximum.[1]

The case before us concerns only the petition for review of accused Marvin Mercado where he assails his conviction, and arguing that the Court of Appeals having increased the penalty imposed by the court a quo to a...