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PEOPLE vs Joselito Lopez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOSELITO LOPEZ y FRANCISCO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 132168 | 2000-10-10

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

The specter of landlessness on one hand and the uneasy partnership between the landed and the landless on the other have often haunted our country's restive socio-economic past. Now more pronounced than ever is this affliction with the mushrooming of squatter colonies in the urban centers and of landless tenant-farmers in the rural areas. This case is a miniature representation of this continuing societal malady that breeds discord and lawlessness.

The spouses Placido and Feliza Lopez, together with their daughter Emily, nephew Bongbong, and son Joselito with wife Sharon, lived in a shanty on a patch of...