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PEOPLE vs Gomez, Rodriguez, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. ROBERT GOMEZ, JIMMY RODRIGUEZ, RENATO AMAYBAY @ BUK-AN AMAYBAY, and EDEN CARMONA, appellants.

G.R. Nos. 128378 | 2003-04-30

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

This is an appeal from the Court of Appeals decision,[1] affirming the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Bacolod City, Branch 44 in Civil Case No. 8895,[2] wherein appellants Robert Gomez, Jimmy Rodriguez, Renato Amaybay (a.k.a. Buk-An Amaybay), and Eden Carmona were found guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Murder and modified the sentence, among others, from reclusion temporal in its maximum period to reclusion perpetua, to a single penalty of reclusion perpetua.

The facts, as established by the evidence, are as follows.

On November 5, 1989, between 8:45-9:00 in the evening, Joel...