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Reasonable certainty of conviction
The Philippine Star
|January 19, 2026
Government prosecutors are supposed to be building up cases based on higher standards of evidence. Instead of filing a case in court based on evidence supporting probable cause, they have been tasked to build strong cases with a “reasonable certainty of conviction.”
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Perhaps the Department of Justice circular, issued in February 2023, had not yet been fully internalized when prosecutors filed a murder case against expelled Negros Oriental congressman Arnolfo Teves Jr. for the killing of a provincial board member in 2019.
Last Jan. 5, the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 15 granted the defense motion for demurrer to evidence and dropped the charges against Teves and two of his co-defendants, Richard Cuadra and Rolando Pinili. RTC Judge Eduardo Ramon Reyes cited insufficiency of evidence to back the testimony of an alleged gunman that Teves had paid P50,000 to have board member Miguel Dungog killed.
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