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    They Can Provide Insights Into The Present, and Even The Future

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    The document discusses four options related to a controversial case where there was a conviction despite doubts. It notes a high judicial error rate in capital cases and questions whether there was proof beyond reasonable doubt without DNA or medical evidence.

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    They Can Provide Insights Into The Present, and Even The Future

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    The document discusses four options related to a controversial case where there was a conviction despite doubts. It notes a high judicial error rate in capital cases and questions whether there was proof beyond reasonable doubt without DNA or medical evidence.

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    The document discusses four options related to a controversial case where there was a conviction despite doubts. It notes a high judicial error rate in capital cases and questions whether there was proof beyond reasonable doubt without DNA or medical evidence.

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    They Can Provide Insights Into The Present, and Even The Future

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    irene ibon
    The document discusses four options related to a controversial case where there was a conviction despite doubts. It notes a high judicial error rate in capital cases and questions whether there was proof beyond reasonable doubt without DNA or medical evidence.

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    1st option:

    Despite the conviction of seven co-defendants, the Supreme Court cited a 71.77%
    judicial error rate in capital cases from 1993 to 2004. Later, the Highest Court
    allowed post-conviction DNA testing without need of prior court order.

    This could have been applied in this controversial case. Had there been a well-
    preserved biological sample, it could have led to the reversal of conviction.

    Sadly, there is none. All hope is gone?

    2nd option:

    After the conviction, the Supreme Court of the Philippines released information in
    2004 that cited a 71.77 percent judicial error rate in capital cases in the period from
    1993 to 2004, when capital punishment was still legal -- a percentage determined by
    the total number of death convictions that had been either reversed or pardoned.

    There are doubts. But, the Chiong case is a lesson learned.

    Thus, we adhere: Lessons from the past may not always ward off doom, but
    they can provide insights into the present, and even the future.

    3rd option:

    Until now, it is still puzzling that a case, involving abduction, rape and murder, did not
    consider full appreciation of medical evidence. How can there be proof beyond
    reasonable doubt when the conviction was built almost entirely on the testimony of
    one young man?

    It pains us that innocents die as DNA goes untested.

    4th option:

    Just like the Chiong case, there may be thousands in the system who were
    wrongfully convicted.

    However, some of them are impossible to exonerate because there is no DNA


    evidence for their cases.

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