CA rules to grant search warrant on ‘death caves’
By Benjamin B. Pulta 05/18/2011The 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
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110518nat3.html
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