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People vs. Lising [DECISION]

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROBERTO "RAMBO" LISING, RODOLFO MANALILI, FELIMON GARCIA, ENRICO DIZON, and ROBIN MANGA, accused-appellants.

G.R. Nos. 106210-11 | 1998-01-30

D E C I S I O N
 
KAPUNAN, J.:
 
The parents of Cochise and Beebom must have lifted their sorrowful faces heavenward and blurted out an anguished cry: “Oh God! Why must it be they, so young, so loving, so beautiful and so promising, to be brutally snatched from our embrace and never to be seen again?”

Conchise, whose full name was Ernesto Bernabe II, was 26 years old on the fateful day of April 26, 1990 and Ana Lourdes Castaños, or Beebom to her family and friends, was 22. Cochise had just graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree of Bachelor of Laws and was reviewing for the bar examinations,...