SECOND DIVISION
[G.R. No. 249662. August 24, 2020.]
PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee,vs. ALFREDO LASAM y BUNAGAN A.K.A. 'PON', accused-appellant.
NOTICE
Sirs/Mesdames :
Please take notice that the Court, Second Division, issued a Resolution dated24 August 2020which reads as follows:
"G.R. No. 249662 (People of the Philippines v. Alfredo Lasam y Bunagan a.k.a. 'Pon'). — The Court resolves to: (a) NOTE the manifestation dated January 2, 2020 of the Office of the Solicitor General, dispensing with the filing of supplemental brief, considering that the Appellee's Brief dated December 28, 2019 filed before the Court of Appeals (CA) had already exhaustively discussed all the issues raised by appellant; (b) NOTE the letter dated December 13, 2019 of Mr. Gil C. Llano, Officer-in-Charge, Documents Section, Bureau of Corrections, Muntinlupa City, confirming the confinement of accused-appellant Alfredo Lasam y Bunagan a.k.a. 'Pon' (accused-appellant) at the said institution since February 3, 2018; and (c) DISPENSE WITH the filing of accused-appellant's supplemental brief.
After a judicious study of the case, the Court further resolves to DISMISS the appeal 1 for failure to sufficiently show that the CA committed any reversible error in the assailed Decision as to warrant the exercise of the Court's appellate jurisdiction.
WHEREFORE, the Court ADOPTS the findings of fact and conclusions of law in the March 27, 2019 Decision 2 of the CA in CA-G.R. CR-HC No. 10403 and AFFIRMS said Decision finding accused-appellant GUILTY beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of Illegal Sale of Dangerous Drugs, defined and penalized under Section 5, Article II of Republic Act No. 9165, 3 otherwise known as 'Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.' Accordingly, he is sentenced to suffer the penalty of life imprisonment and to pay a fine in the amount of P500,000.00.
SO ORDERED. (Baltazar-Padilla, J., on official leave.)"
By authority of the Court:
(SGD.) TERESITA AQUINO TUAZONDeputy Division Clerk of Court
Footnotes
1. See Notice of Appeal dated April 16, 2019; rollo, pp. 17-18.
2.Rollo, pp. 3-16. Penned by Associate Justice Edwin D. Sorongon with Associate Justices Sesinando E. Villon and Germano Francisco D. Legaspi, concurring.
3. Entitled "AN ACT INSTITUTING THE COMPREHENSIVE DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT OF 2002, REPEALING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6425, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT OF 1972, AS AMENDED, PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," approved on June 7, 2002.