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PEOPLE vs. SPO1 Bernie Jamon Faustino

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SPO1 BERNIE JAMON FAUSTINO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 129220 | 2000-09-06

D E C I S I O N
VITUG, J.:
If a human must be taken to pay a debt to society, let not a wrong man, ever, be made to account for it. The trek to Justice is not a game of chance or skill but a quest for truth, the only path by which the righteous end can be reached.
The Regional Trial Court of Parañaque, Branch 260, convicted accused-appellant SPO1 Bernie Jamon Faustino of the crime of robbery with homicide and sentenced him to suffer the extreme penalty of death. The case was forwarded to this Court for automatic review.
On 10 April 1996, accused-appellant entered a plea of "not guilty" to the charge of Robbery with Homicide under an...