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CA rules to grant search warrant on ‘death caves’ By Benjamin B. Pulta 05/18/2011

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

CA rules to grant search warrant on ‘death caves’

By Benjamin B. Pulta 05/18/2011

The Court of Appeals (CA) has ruled to grant an appeal by government lawyers seeking a search warrant to investigate three caves inside a compound in Davao City where victims of summary execution by the so-called “Davao Death Squad” are supposedly buried.

In its 14-page decision, the appellate court found the government’s petition impressed with merit and reversed a lower court judge’s ruling stating that respondent Judge William Peralta committed “a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction” when he terminated, “without sufficient reasons,” a valid search warrant which he himself issued..... MORE

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