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Cudiamat vs. People, et al

ANTONIO CUDIAMAT y ANGANGAN, petitioner, vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, HON. EMILIO A. GANGAYCO, VENICIO ESCOLIN, and LORENZO RELOVA (JUSTICES OF COURT OF APPEALS, 7th Division respondents.

G.R. No. L-47753 | 1978-07-25

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

The invocation of the expanded constitutional right against self-incrimination does not avail petitioner, who seeks a reversal of the Court of Appeals decision convicting him of homicide, the sentence imposed being six years and one day of prision mayor as minimum to twelve years and one day of reclusion temporal as maximum. It is true that as now worded, the Miranda 1 doctrine as to the inadmissibility of a confession during custodial interrogations has been incorporated in the Constitution. 2 Counsel for petitioner failed to take into account, however, that as held in Magtoto v. Manguerra, 3 the...