THE Supreme Court on Sunday announced that two criminal cases involving two suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) would be pilot tested for the first-ever trial via videoconferencing, which would be held in the Regional Trial Court of Davao City. One of the cases is for frustrated murder while the other case is for multiple attempted murder.
The videoconferencing which will start today, September 2, would allow the accused in the said cases to testify and be cross-examined without having the need to leave their respective detention cells.
“[The] first case is frustrated murder where the PDL [person deprived of liberty] volunteered to be tried through videoconferencing. The second case is multiple attempted murder where the PDL, a suspected NPA member, fired upon security forces in an attempted ambush,” Court Administrator Jose Midas P. Marquez said.
First to be subjected for videoconferencing is Romart Mand Uy, who is facing frustrated murder for attempting to kill Bryan Villanil last July 27, 2013, by stabbing the latter in different parts of the body using a knife.
The second case involves two suspected NPA members and three still unidentified coaccused.
The complex crime of multiple attempted murder was filed in 2014 against Ryan Pitao, alias KaRyan, and Aquilino Gonzales, alias Banakon.
Based on the information filed against them, the attack was done in a “sudden and unexpected manner, thereby commencing the execution of the complex crime of murder directly by overt acts but did not perform all the acts of execution which should have produced the said crime as a consequence not because of accused’s spontaneous desistance but by reason that the victims were able to take cover and fire back at the accused, and that the injuries sustained by Cpl. Glenn Emata and PFC Philip Moster were not fatal.”
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