“AS THE PRESIDING JUDGE IS ABOUT TO ENTER THE SESSION HALL””
CLERK OF COURT: ALL RISE! THE HEARING OF CALENDAR CASES WILL NOW BEGIN.
THE HONORABLE JUDGE JOSEPH JOHN TIIN, PRESIDING. SILENCE IS HEREBY
ENJOINED.
TI-IN: (DUKDOK) CALL THE CASES.
CLERK OF COURT: CRIMINAL CASE NO. 54321, PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES VS.
DANTE LUMAYNO, FOR PARRICIDE, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: APPERANCES!
ELVIEN: PROSECUTOR ELVIEN BARASBARAS, RESPECTFULLY APPEARING FOR THE
PEOPLE. READY, YOUR HONOR.
RAMEL: ATTY RAMEL PONTERAS, APPEARING FOR THE ACCUSED. READY, YOUR
HONOR.
TI-IN: ALL RIGHT, IS THE ACCUSED IN COURT?
RAMEL: PRESENT, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: HOW ABOUT THE PRIVATE COMPLAINANT, PROSECUTOR?
ELVIEN: PRESENT, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: ALL RIGHT! IS THERE A POSSIBILITY OF PLEA BARGAINING IN THIS CASE? IS
THE ACCUSED WILLING TO PLEA TO A LESSER OFFENSE OF HOMICIDE?
RAMEL: IF THE PROSECUTION WILL AGREE, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: PROSECUTOR BARASBARAS, IS THE PRIVATE COMPLAINANT AMENABLE TO
THE PROPOSAL OF THE DEFENSE FOR PLEA TO A LOWER OFFENSE OF HOMICIDE?
ELVIEN: (PAGKAHUMAN NAKO STORYAHON SI LORRAINE.) NO, YOUR HONOR. THE
PROSECUTION IS NOT GOING TO ACCEPT THE PROPOSAL TO PEA YO A LOWER
OFFENSE OF HOMICIDE.
TI-IN: ALL RIGHT, THEN. LET US PROCEED TO THE THEORY OF PROSECUTION.
ELVIEN: THE THEORY OF PROSECUTION IS AS STATED IN THE INFORMATION, YOUR
HONOR.
TI-IN: ALL RIGHT. ANY STIPULATION OF FACTS FROM THE PROSECUTION?
ELVIEN: WE PROPOSED FOR STIPULATION THE IDENTITY OF THE ACCUSED TO BE
THE SAME PERSON CHARGED AND ARRAIGNED, YOU HONOR.
RAMEL: DENIED, YOUR HONOR.
ELVIEN: WE PROPOSED THAT THE ACCUSED WAS IN PUROK.
________________BARANGAY, OLD POBLACION, ESCALANTE CITY AT AROUND 11:00 IN
THE EVENING.
RAMEL: DENIED, YOUR HONOR.
ELVIEN: NO OTHER PROPOSALS, YOUR HONOR. MAY WE NOW PROCEED TO HE
MARKING OF OUR DOCUMENTARY EXHIBITS?
TI-IN: PROCEED, PLEASE, PROSECUTOR.
ELVIEN: WE ASK THEN FOR THE MARKING OF THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS, YOUR
HONOR:
AS EXHIBITS “A” – THE DEATH CERTIFICATE OF DANILLO LUMAYNO, TO SHOW HIS
FACT OF DEATH AND CAUSE OF DEATH.
TI-IN: (TO INTERPRETER) MARK, PLEASE.
ELVIEN: AS EXHIBITS “B”- THE INVESTIGATION REPORT BY SSGT. RICKY
BATOMALAQUE TO PROVE THAT HE AND THE MEMBERS OF HIS TEAM WERE
IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED TO THE CRIME SCENE AND BASED ON THEIR
INVESTIGATION ISSUED SUCH REPORT.
TI-IN: MARK, PLEASE
ELVIEN: AS EXHIBIT “C”- THE JUDICIAL AFFIDAVIT OF LORRAINE DELOS REYES, TO
SHOW AND PROVED THAT PRIOR TO THE INCEDENT HER SON, DANILLO LUMAYNO,
THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE AND THE ACCUSED HAD AN ALTERCATION DURING A
DRINKING SPREE AND THREATENED TO KILL HER SON.
TI-IN: MARK, PLEASE.
ELVIEN: AND AS EXHIBIT “D”- THE JUDICIAL AFFIDAVIT OF CARLO DIMO-TAGAY TO
PROVED THAT HE WAS WITH THE ACCUSED AND THE VICTIM DURING A DRINKING
SPREE AND THAT THE ACCUSED THREATENED TO KILL THE VICTIM.
TI-IN: MARK, PLEASE. HOW ABOUT YOUR WTNESSES, PROSECUTOR?
ELVIEN: WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING WITNESSES, YOUR HONOR.
1.) DR. LORENZO DIAZ---- TO TESTIFY ON THE AUTOPSY REPORT HE ISSUED FOR
THE VCITIM IN HIS CASE AND OF THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF THE VICTIM; AND
2.) LORRAINE DELOS REYES, MOTHER OF THE VCITIM, TO TESTIFY THAT THERE
WAS A DRINKING SPREE IN THEIR HOUSE ON NOVEMBER 5, 2024, AT 11:00 IN
THE EVENING WHERE BOTH HER SON AND THE ACCUSED WERE PRESENT
AND HAD AN ALTERCATON.
TI-IN: HOW MANY TRIAL DATES NEEDED BY THE PROSECUTION?
ELVIEN: NEED FOUR (4) DATES, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: (TO INTERPRETER) ALL RIGHT, GIVE THE PROSECUTION 4 TRIAL DATES.
INTERPRETER: JANUARY 20,21,22,23, 2025 ALL AT 8:30 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING,
YOUR HONOR.
ELVIEN: NO OTHER MATTERS FOR THE PROSECUTION, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: ALL RIGHT, HOW ABOUT THE DEFENSE, WHAT IS ITS THEORY?
RAMEL: DENIAL, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: HOW ABOUT YOUR PROPODSALS FOR STIPULATIONS, IF ANY?
RAMEL: NONE, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: HOW ABOUT YOUR DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE?
RAMEL: NONE, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: HOW ABOUT YOUR WITNESSES, ATTY PONTERAS?
RAMEL: WE WILL PRESENT THE ACCUSED AND WE NEED TWO (2) TRIAL DATES,
YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: (TO INTERPRETER) GIVE THE DEFENSE TWO TRIAL DATES.
INTERPRETER: JANUARY 27,28, 2025, ALL AT 8:30 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING, YOUR
HONOR.
RAMEL: NO OTHER MATTERS FOR THE DEFENSE, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: ALL RIGHT, THE COURT WILL NOW ISSUE THE ORDER
ORDER
THE PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE WAS CONDUCTED AND TERMINATED. THE REQUIRED
PRE- TRIAL ORDER WILL BE ISSUED BY THE COURT IN A SEPARATE ORDER BASED ON
THE PROCEEDINGS CONDUCTED. SO ORDERED.
TI-IN: (TO THE CLERK OF COURT) NEXT CASE.
CLERK OF COURT: NO OTHER CASES, YOUR HONOR.
TI-IN: (DUKDOK) SESSION ADJOURNED!
SHERIFF: (DAYUN PAGKAHUMAN DUKDOK) ALL RISE! (GAWAS DAYUN SI TI-IN SA IYA
CHAMBER)