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Jose Antonio Leviste Vs. The Court of Appeals, et al.

JOSE ANTONIO LEVISTE, Petitioner, versus THE COURT OF APPEALS and PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Respondents

G.R. No. 189122 | 2010-03-17

D E C I S I O N

CORONA, J.:

Bail, the security given by an accused who is in the custody of the law for his release to guarantee his appearance before any court as may be required,[1] is the answer of the criminal justice system to a vexing question: what is to be done with the accused, whose guilt has not yet been proven, in the "dubious interval," often years long, between arrest and final adjudication?[2] Bail acts as a reconciling mechanism to accommodate both the accused's interest in pretrial liberty and society's interest in assuring the accused's presence at trial.[3] 

Upon conviction by the Regional Trial Court of an offense...