Supreme Court En Banc Decision GR # 224469
DIOSDADO SAMA Y HINUPAS AND BANDY MASANGLAY Y ACEVEDA, PETITIONERS, VS. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, RESPONDENT.
DECISION
The Case
The Case This Petition for Review on Certiorari[1] assails the following dispositions of the Cou...
The Trial Court's Ruling
By Decision[16] dated August 24, 2010, the trial court convicted the accused, as charged, thus: ...
Proceedings before the Court of Appeals
Petitioners asserted anew their IP right to harvest the dita tree logs as part and parcel of the ...
The Court of Appeals' Ruling
In its Decision[23] dated May 29, 2015, the Court of Appeals affirmed. It focused on the failure ...
The Present Petition
Petitioners now seek affirmative relief from the Court, reiterating their plea for acquittal.[25]...
Issues
Is there evidence beyond reasonable doubt, first, of petitioners' ethnicity as Iraya-Mangyan IPs,...
Ruling
We acquit.Section 2 of Rule 133 of the Rules of Court defines the standard of proof beyond rea...
i. Constitutional basis of IP rights
Ha Data Tawahig v. Lapinid[70] explains the expansive breadth of the legal recognition of IP r...
ii. Spectrum of IP rights
Conceptually, IP rights fall along a spectrum, the cornerstone of which is their degree of connec...
CHAPTER III Rights to Ancestral Domains
SECTION 7. Rights to Ancestral Domains. — The rights of ownership and possession of ICCs/IPs t...
Disposition
ACCORDINGLY, the petition is GRANTED. The Decision dated May 29, 2015 and Resolution dated April ...
DISSENTING OPINION
PERALTA, C.J.:The facts of the case are simple. Petitioners were charged with violation of Secti...
SEPARATE CONCURRING OPINION
PERLAS-BERNABE, J.:I concur in the result. Petitioners Diosdado Sama y Hinupas and Bandy Masan...
V
There are at least six provisions in the 1987 Constitution which protect the rights of indi...
SEPARATE OPINION
CAGUIOA, J.:The factual backdrop of the case is simple and quite straightforward: petitioners,...
SEPARATE CONCURRING OPINION
ZALAMEDA, J.:Petitioners are before this Court seeking their acquittal from the offense punished ...
DISSENTING OPINION
LOPEZ, J.:This case stemmed from an Information dated May 27, 2005, charging Diosdado Sama ...