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EN BANC
NOTICE
Please take notice that the Court en bane issued a Resolution
dated FEBRUARY 4, 2014, which reads as follows:
"G.R. No. 180016 (Lito Corpuz v. People of the Philippines). - The
Court resolves to:
(1) SET this case for ORAL ARGUMENTS on February 25,
2014, Tuesday, at 2:00 p.m. at the New Session Hall, New Supreme Court
Building, Padre Faura St., Ermita, Manila, on the following issues:
a. Whether or not the Court may modify by adjusting for inflation
the penalty of 4 years and 2 months to 15 years that the Court of Appeals
imposed on petitioner Lito Corpuz for the P98,000.00 fraud that he
committed, which penalty was computed based on the value of money in
193 0 when the legislature enacted the Revised Penal Code;
b. Whether or not that portion of Article 315 that imposes a
maximum penalty based on the amount of the fraud exceeding P22,000.00
should be declared unconstitutional and void for being disproportionate and
excessively harsh in view of the decline of the value of money since 1930;
c. Whether or not, procedurally, the Court may determine the
constitutionality of the penalty that the Court of Appeals imposed on Corpuz
even when he did not raise such question in his petition for review and, in
the affirmative, under what circumstances can such determination be done;
and
d. Whether or not the penalty that the Court of Appeals imposed
on Corpuz violate the Equal Protection Clause or the Unusual Punishment
Clause of the Constitution and, if so, what standards need be met before a
penal law or parts of it can be declared unconstitutional on either of those
two grounds.
(2) REQUIRE the Office of the Solicitor General, the counsel for
petitioner Corpuz, the Senate President or his designated counsel, the
Notice of Resolution - 2 - G.R. No. 180016
February 4, 2014
Speaker of the House of Representatives or his designated counsel, Professor
Alfredo F. Tadiar, Dean Jose Manuel I. Diokno, and Dean Sedfrey M.
Candelaria to ADDRESS the Court on the abovementioned issues." Perlas-
Bemabe, J., no part. (adv33)
Honorable Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno (x)
Chief Justice
Hon. Antonio T. Carpio (x)
Hon. Presbitero J. Velasco. Jr. (x)
Hon. Teresita J. Leonardo-de Castro (x)
Hon. Arturo D. Brion (x)
Hon. Diosdado M. Peralta (x)
Hon. Lucas P. Bersamin (x)
Hon. Mariano C. Del Castillo (x)
Hon. Roberto A. Abad (x)
Hon. Martin S. Villarama, Jr. (x)
Hon. Jose P. Perez (x)
Hon. Jose C. Mendoza (x)
Hon. Bienvenido L. Reyes (x)
Hon. Estela M. Perlas-Bernabe (x)
Hon. Marvic Mario Victor F. Leonen (x)
Associate Justices
Supreme Court
Atty. Nini D. Cruz (reg)
Counsel for Petitioner
143 A Gordon Avenue, Brgy. New, Kalalake
Olongapo City
Free Legal Assistance Group (x)
c/o Atty. Jose Manuel I. Diokno
De La Salle University College of Law
Br. Andrew Gonzales Hall
De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Ave., Manila
Dean Sedfrey M. Candelaria (x)
Ateneo de Manila University School of Law
#20 Rockwell Drive, Rockwell Center, Makati City
Court of Appeals (x)
CA G.R. CR No. 28983
1000 Manila
Very truly yours,
The Solicitor General (x)
Office of the Solicitor General
134 Amorsolo St., Legaspi Village
1229 Makati City
Hon. Senate President (x)
Senate of the Philippines
GSIS Bldg., Financial Center
Roxas Blvd.,1300 Pasay City
Professor Alfredo F. Tadiar (x)
No. 1
Don Antonio Heights, Quezon City
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. (x)
House of Representatives
Constitution Hills, Quezon City
Atty. Maria Valentina S. Cruz (x)
Senate Legal Counsel
Office of the Senate Legal Counsel
4/F Senate Building GSIS Headquarters Complez
Financial Center, 1300 Pasay City
Professor Ruperto P. Alonzo with
Dean Raul V. Fabella and
Dean Emmanuel S. de Dios (x)
University of the Philippines School of Economics
Diliman, Quezon City
Judge Franklin T. Demonteverde (reg)
President, Philippine Judges Association
Regional Trial Court, Branch 44
Bacolod City
Public Information Office (x)
Supreme Court
G. R. No. 180016
wmd 2/4/14 (adv33) 2/10/14