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Mercado V People
Mercado V People
FACTS: Petition for review of accused Marvin Mercado where he assails his
conviction, and arguing that the Court of Appeals having increased the penalty
imposed by the court a quo to a prison term of seventeen (17) years and four (4)
months to thirty (30) years, should have certified the case to this Court as the
penalty of thirty (30) years was already reclusion perpetua, pursuant to the last
paragraph of Sec. 13, Rule 124, of the 2000 Rules of Criminal Procedure.