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SUPREME COURT REPORTS ANNOTATED VOLUME 112

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PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, copy the selected text. Citation
vs. ALBERTO ABREA y ARANCON, included.
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Citation: 112 SCRA 83

VOL. 112, FEBRUARY
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People vs. Abrea
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1. inmates in the Provincial Jail,

No. L-55309. February
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behaving as if he can dominate 1982.
prison guards by violating prison
rules and regulations by lodging
in an outside cottage with a lady THE PEOPLE OF TH
detainee, Regina Penaso; —
Inmate/victim Coca had
PHILIPPINES, plaint
previously been sentenced to five appellee, vs. ALBER
(5) death penalties in G.R. No. L- ABREA y ARANCO
30491, prom. Jan. 21, 1972;
according to the latest criminal defendant-appellant.
information against him
(Criminal Case No. 1967, CFI,
Branch III), he is charged of the Criminal Law; Murd
offense of Robbery with Rape
and Less Serious Physical Plea of guilty, not improvide
Injuries ‘with aggravating Prosecution required, after p
circumstance of three (3)
recidivisms.’ (Information,
of guilty of the accused,
Exhibit H, Crim. Case No. 1967, present evidence to substant
dated March 3, 1978). “TRUE IT
allegations in the information
IS, the inmate-victim Anatalio
Coca’s notoriety and propensity The trial judge faithfu
of committing followed the prescri
procedure in capital ca
2. bloody and rapacious offenses
clearly makes him a continuing
where the accused plea
terror to, and danger against, guilty—which is to require
society. Incorregibly atrocious as
prosecution to present evide
he is, it is not incumbent upon
accused-inmateassailant Alberto so as to substantiate
Abrea to snuff his life. “The allegations in the informat
penalty of DEATH now being
willed by the Court against and thus guard agai
assailant Abrea comes to the improvident admissions of gu
fore, coincidentally when modern
penologists have different Same; Same; Plea of gui
schools of thought regarding
death penalties. The present-day
Plea of guilty does not m
discussion of penologists and admission of mater
other learned men, pro and con allegations in the informat
on the imposition of death
penalty, taken together to the by the accused includ
factual circumstance that qualifying and/or aggravat
inmate-victim Anatalio Coca was
himself brutal, notoriously circumstances; Purpose
perverse and a clear danger to automatic review in cap
society, this Court with bated
breath, has
cases.—The Solicitor Gene
argues that when the appell
pleaded guilty he admitted
material allegations in
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