The CA reverses a lower court's ruling in 2023, which acquitted Police Lieutenant Colonel Rafael Dumlao III over Jee Ick Joo's killing
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The CA, in its decision, said it found that the local court gravely abused its discretion by “misapprehension of facts” when it rendered its decision on the case. The CA said the proceedings were “a sham and an apparent mockery of the judicial process” because the cop’s acquittal was a “foregone conclusion and in total disregard of the evidence.”
“The Court of Appeals found the RTC’s ruling patently conflicting and irreconcilable with the facts it discussed in its Joint Decision. It erred in brushing aside the circumstantial evidence by the prosecution, which is sufficient by itself to support a judgment of conviction and could have galvanized Dumlao’s culpability,” the CA said.allegedly by the police assigned to the then-Anti-Illegal Drugs Group.
What the prosecutors did was to take the much harder path, which was to prove, through a certiorari petition, that the lower court erred in its ruling. The SC said this is among the exceptions that can be used to challenge an acquittal without violating the Constitution.
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