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PEOPLE vs Rimorin,etal. /Rimorin

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. VIRGILIO RIMORIN,EDRITO CASTILLO and GLENN GARCIA, accused,/VIRGILIO RIMORIN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 124309 | 2000-05-16

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

Before us is the appeal from the decision of the Regional Trial Court, San Fernando, La Union, Branch 30, in Criminal Case No. 2994, finding accused-appellant Virgilio Rimorin, along with his co-accused, Edrito Castillo and Glenn Garcia, guilty of the crimes of kidnapping with murder and imposing on him two sentences of reclusion perpetua, as well as ordering him to indemnify the respective mothers of the two murder victims in the amount of P50,000.00 each.

Appellant Rimorin, Castillo, and Garcia were initially charged in an information dated June 22, 1992, worded as follows:

"That on or about the 16th...