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PEOPLE vs Ex-Mayor Renato Reyes, et al

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. EX-MAYOR RENATO REYES (DECEASED), PEPITO FAMILIARA, JR. (DECEASED), ABELARDO DE CASTRO, PORFERIO ESGUERRA and NICASIO LUSAYA (ACQUITTED), accused. / ABELARDO DE CASTRO and PORFERIO ESGUERRA, appellants.

G.R. No. 142467 | 2003-06-10

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

This is murder. PRUDENCIO LINESES, while reading a bible at home in the evening of 1 October 1995, was mercilessly gunned down. The assassins were initially unknown and remained scot-free until a person arrested four (4) months later in connection with another murder case executed an extrajudicial confession admitting responsibility for the murder of Prudencio Lineses and disclosing his co-participants in the killing. Witnesses surfaced soon after and several persons were eventually apprehended and charged with murder with the use of an illegally possessed firearm.

Of the five (5) accused mentioned in the...