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Department of Justice,
Plaintiff,
-versus-
The Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army a.k.a. Bagong Hukbong Bayan,
Respondents

Civil Case No., R-MNL-18-00925-CV

In my opinion one of the surest means to ease the uprising is a sincere demonstration of this Government’s adherence to the principles of the Constitution, together with an impartial application thereof to all citizens, whether dissidents or not. Let the rebels have no reason to apprehend that their comrades now under custody are being railroaded into Muntinglupa, without benefit of those fundamental privileges which the experience of the ages has deemed essential for the protection of all persons accused of crime before the tribunal of justice. Give them the assurance that the judiciary, ever mindful of its sacred mission will not, thru faulty cogitation or misplaced devotion, uphold any doubtful claims of Governmental power in diminution of individual rights …

Separate Opinion, J. Fernando, People v. Jose Lava