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In a 25-page decision, the SC said the alibis and denials of the couple, Elvie Ejandra and Magdalena Calunod, and Edwin Tampos and Roel Revilla, could not prevail over the "credible, positive and straightforward" statements of their victim, Ed Henderson Tan.


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ELVIE EJANDRA AND MAGDALENA CALUNOD

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SC affirms death penalty for 4 kidnappers

July 7, 2004 - 12:00am

Giving more "weight" to the testimony of a young victim than to the alibis of his kidnappers, the Supreme Court (SC) upheld the death sentence imposed by a lower court on a husband and wife who, along with...

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