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People vs. Galvez [DECISION]

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus CESAR GALVEZ, Appellant.

G.R. No. 157221 | 2007-03-29

D E C I S I O N
 
AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, J.:
 
For review before this Court is the Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR No. 18255 dated March 30, 2001, which affirmed the Decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Isabela, Basilan finding the accused-appellant Cesar Galvez (Galvez), guilty of Murder, but modifying the penalty of the RTC from a sentence of "seventeen (17) years, four (4) months and one (1) day as minimum to twenty (20) years as maximum" to reclusion perpetua.

The facts are as follows:

At around 11 o'clock in the evening of July 27, 1991, Danilo Perez, Rosalio Enojarda, Noel...