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Tatad vs. Sandiganbayan, 159 SCRA 70

FRANCISCO S. TATAD, petitioner, vs. THE SANDIGANBAYAN, and THE TANODBAYAN, respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-72335-39 | 1988-03-21

D E C I S I O N 


YAP, J.: 

In this petition for certiorari and prohibition, with preliminary injunction, dated October 16, 1985, petitioner seeks to annul and set aside the resolution of he Tanodbayan of April 7, 1985, and the resolutions of the Sandiganbayan, dated August 9, 1985, August 12, 1985 and September 17, 1985, and to enjoin the Tanodbayan and the Sandiganbayan from continuing with trial or any other proceedings in Criminal Cases Nos. 10499, 10500, 10501, 10502 and 10503, all entitled "People of the Philippines versus Francisco S. Tatad." 

The petition alleges, among other things, that sometime in October 1974,...