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Enrile vs. Salazar [CONCURRING OPINION, GUTIERREZ, J.]

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS. JUAN PONCE ENRILE, petitioner vs. JUDGE JAIME SALAZAR (Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City [Br. 103], SENIOR STATE PROSECUTOR AURELIO TRAMPE, PROSECUTOR FERDINAND R. ABESAMIS, AND CITY ASSISTANT CITY PROSECUTOR EULOGIO MANANQUIL, NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DIRECTOR ALFREDO LIM, BRIG. GEN. EDGAR DULA TORRES (Superintendent of the Northern Police District) AND/ OR ANY AND ALL PERSONS WHO MAY HAVE ACTUAL CUSTODY OVER THE PERSON OF JUAN PONCE ENRILE, respondents. SPS. REBECCO E. PANLILIO AND ERLINDA E. PANLILIO, petitioners, vs. PROSECUTORS FERNANDO DE LEON, AURELIO C. TRAMPE, FFRDINAND R. ABESAMIS, AND EULOGIO C. MANANQUIL, and HON. JAIME W. SALAZAR, JR., in his capacity as Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Quezon City, Branch 103, respondents.

G.R. No. 92163 and G.R. No. 92164 | 1990-06-05

GUTIERREZ, JR., J., concurring:

I join the Court's decision to grant the petition. In reiterating the rule that under existing law rebellion may not be complexed with murder, the Court emphasizes that it cannot legislate a new-crime into existence nor prescribe a penalty for its commission. That function is exclusively for Congress.

I write this separate opinion to make clear how I view certain issues arising from these cases, especially on how the defective informations filed by the prosecutors should have been treated.

I agree with the ponente that a petition for habeas corpus is ordinarily not the proper procedure to assert the...