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P/CPL. GUILLERMO SARABIA, PNP vs PEOPLE

P/CPL. GUILLERMO SARABIA, PNP, petitioner, vs. THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent.

G.R. No. 142024 | 2001-07-20

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This is a petition for review of the decision, dated October 29, 1999, and resolution, dated March 6, 2000, of the Court of Appeals[1] affirming the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Bohol, Branch 48, which affirmed the decision of the Municipal Trial Court of Tagbilaran, finding petitioner Guillermo Sarabia guilty of grave coercion, and denying petitioner's motion for reconsideration, respectively.

The facts are as follows:

On June 23, 1991, at around 8 o'clock in the evening, complainant Josephine Picos-Mapalad and her then boyfriend, complainant Anastacio Mapalad (now the former's husband), were...