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Gerardo Biong vs. People of the Philippines.

GERARDO BIONG, Petitioner, versus PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Respondent.

G.R. No. 142262 | 2006-08-29

THIRD DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N 
 
CARPIO MORALES, J.: 
 
On September 7, 1995, Danilo Cayubit (Cayubit), who was serving a prison term for homicide at the National Bilibid Prisons, executed a 5-page, single spaced Sinumpaang Salaysay[1] before the Parañaque City Prosecutor charging herein petitioner Gerardo Biong (Biong) with attempted murder alleged to have been committed more than four years earlier or on June 30, 1991.
 
Cayubit had early on been tagged as the leader of the Akyat Bahay Gang which allegedly broke into the Vizconde residence in B.F. Homes, Parañaque in 1991 during which Estrellita...