ILOILO CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

CITY OF ILOILO
INJAP, Building, M.H. del Pilar St. Molo, Iloilo City,
5000

LOCAL CASE
INVESTIGATION
LOCAL CASE:
CRIME: Kidnapped, Raped, and Murdered
CASE NO.: G R. No. 138874-75
ACCUSED: Francisco Juan Larrañaga

SUMMARY: The Chiong murder case (People of the Philippines v.

Francisco Juan Larrañaga et al.) was a trial regarding an incident on July
16, 1997, in Cebu, the Philippines, in which sisters Marijoy and
Jacqueline Chiong were kidnapped, raped, and murdered. Francisco
Juan "Paco" Larrañaga (b. 1977), a man
of dual Filipino and Spanish citizenship was, along with six others,
convicted of murder, and sentenced to death by lethal injection on
February 3, 2004. Larrañaga was later commuted to life imprisonment,
following the abolition of capital punishment in the Philippines in June
2006, and was transferred to Spain to serve out his sentence in October
2009.The Chiong sisters remain missing to this day.

VERDICT/DECISION: The seven co-defendants were convicted of

murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection on February 3, 2004.
Larrañaga's counsels Felicitas Aquino Arroyo and Sandra Marie Olaso
Coronel urged the high court to admit the amicus curiae from the Basque
Bar Council (BBC), Barcelona Bar Associations (BBA) and Bar
Association of Madrid.The three organizations expressed their interests in
the case of Larrañaga since he was a "Spanish citizen with origins in
the Basque Country, and therefore a member of the European Union."
The BBA mentioned that the execution of a Spanish citizen would be in
breach of the violation of the principle of reciprocity in international law,
noting that if a Filipino citizen is found guilty in Spain, no Spanish
court would have imposed the death penalty, nor would have allowed him
extradited to any country imposing capital punishment. Former
Ambassador Sedfrey Ordóñez claims he is the victim of a mistrial.
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Fair Trials International (FTI), an NGO working on behalf of those who

face a miscarriage of justice in a country other than their own, entered
an amicus brief which was submitted to the Supreme Court of the
Philippines by the European Commission's Manila delegate.
The amicus argued that under both international and Philippine law,
Larrañaga had been the subject of an unfair trial and had never been
given the opportunity to show his innocence. FTI has since represented
Larrañaga before the United Nations, appealing against injustice in the
Philippines. Sarah de Mas, spokesperson for FTI who brought the case to
the attention of the European Parliament and successive presidencies of
the European Union, stated that Larrañaga had served a lengthy
sentence for a crime he could not have committed.

FOREIGN CASE INVESTIGATION

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FOREIGN CASE:

CRIME: Murder
CASE NO.: 73-152-M-01
ACCUSED: Edmund Kemper

SUMMARY: Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is

an American serial killer who murdered 8 people, including a 15-year-old
girl, his own mother, and her best friend, from May 1972 to April 1973.
Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal
grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his
non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the
vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Most of his murders
included necrophilia, decapitation, and dismemberment.

VERDICT/DECISION : Found sane and guilty at his trial in 1973,

Kemper requested the death penalty for his crimes. Capital punishment
was suspended in California at the time, and he instead received eight
concurrent life sentences. Since then, he has been incarcerated in
the California Medical Facility in Vacaville.

SUBMITTED TO: MELVIN LAGAÑA

SUBMITTED BY: JOHN PAUL F. CARILLO BS CRIM 1-B