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Ricardo Fortuna vs PEOPLE

RICARDO FORTUNA Y GRAGASIN, petitioner, vs.PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent.

G.R. No. 135784 | 2000-12-15

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J . :

Perhaps no other profession in the country has gone through incessant maligning by the public in general than its own police force. Much has been heard about the notoriety of this profession for excessive use and illegal discharge of power. The present case is yet another excuse for such vilification.

On 21 July 1992 at about 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon, while Diosdada Montecillo and her brother Mario Montecillo were standing at the corner of Mabini and Harrison Streets waiting for a ride home, a mobile patrol car of the Western Police District with three (3) policemen on board stopped in front of...