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Reynaldo Gonzalez vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

REYNALDO GONZALES y RIVERA, petitioner vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS and PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 95523 | 1997-08-18

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

The new law, Republic Act No. 8294, 1 approved barely two months ago (June 6, 1997) which has lowered the penalty for illegal possession of firearms finds application in instant case to favor the accused so as to immediately release him from jail where he has already served nine (9) years, nine (9) months and twenty-three (23) days, which is well beyond the maximum penalty now imposed for his offense. Whereas prior to the passage of this law, the crime of simple illegal possession of firearms was penalized with reclusion temporal in its maximum period to reclusion perpetua, 2 after its enactment, the penalty...