RIGHT TO SPEEDY DISPOSITION OF CASES

Art. III, Sec. 16

Art. VIII, Sec. 15
Art. VII, Sec. 19 par. 3
Art. IX, A, Sec. 17
Duterte v. Sandiganbayan, 289 SCRA 721
(1998)
Tatad vs. Sandiganbayan, 159 SCRA 70 (1988)
Licaros v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. 145851,
November 22, 2001

Dimayacyac v. Judge Roxas, G.R. No. 136264,

May 28, 2004
Bernat v. Sandiganbayan, G.R> No. 158018,
May 20, 2004

PUNISHMENTS
Excessive fines and cruel, degrading and
inhuman punishments
People vs. Dela Cruz, 92 Phil. 906 (1953)
People vs. Borja, 91 SCRA 340 (1978)
People vs. Dacuycuy, 173 SCRA 90 (1989)
Loiusiana v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1974)
Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986)
Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002)
The death penalty
Echegaray v. Secretary of Justice, G.R. No.
132601 January 19, 1999

Involuntary servitude
Art. III, Sec. 18
Aclaracion vs. Gatmaitan, 64 SCRA 131 (1979)

Imprisonment for debt

Art. III, Sec. 20
Sura vs. Martin, 26 SCRA 286 (1969)
People vs. Nitafan, 207 SCRA 726 (1992)
In Re: Habeas Corpus of Benjamin Vergara,
G.R. No. 154037, April 30, 2003

Ex post facto laws and bills of attainder

Art. III, Sec. 22
Kay Villegas Kami, 35 SCRA 429 (1970)
People vs. Ferrer, 48 SCRA 382 (1972)

People vs. Sandiganbayan, 211 SCRA 241

(1992)
Wright vs. CA, 235 SCRA 341 (1994)