In an 18-page decision, the QC MeTC Branch 133 cleared Morillo of 'direct assault upon an agent to agents of a person in authority' for failure of the prosecution to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
A Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court has acquitted Efren Morillo, the sole survivor in a police operation that killed four people, of the charge of direct assault.
The Court said the prosecution relied on the testimony of Formilleza that Morrilo and his companions shot at the cops. Formilleza, however, said that he was unaware whether Morillo actually fired at them during cross-examination. “To the mind of the Court, these taken altogether casts a doubt as to accused Morillo’s culpability for direct assault,” the decision said.
It added that Formilleza admitted that the operation was not assisted by the barangay watchmen as it was a Sunday.
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