Showing posts with label people vs. exala g.r. no. 76005. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people vs. exala g.r. no. 76005. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Mr. Justice Isagani A. Cruz : Champion of Individual Liberty

For this entry, we recall the heavyweight jurist retired Associate Justice Isagani Cruz by briefly revisiting his stirring dissents in the Checkpoint Case (Valmonte vs. De Villa, G.R. No. 83988, September 29, 1989, which was later reiterated and amplified in People vs. Exala, G.R. No. 76005, April 23, 1993) and the Caucasian Drug Trafficking Case (People vs. Malmstedt, G.R. No. 91107 June 19, 1991).