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SUPREME COURT REPORTS ANNOTATED VOLUME 111

any rule it may promulgate
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RUFINO V. NUÑEZ, petitioner, vs.
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SANDIGANBAYAN and PEOPLE have originated therefrom. copy the selected text. Citation
OF THE PHILIPPINES, Section 5(5) of the included.
respondents.
Constitution empowers the
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Supreme Court to
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pleading, practice and
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the Sandiganbayan is one of
those courts, “special” as it
may be.
I am of the considered
opinion, nonetheless, that
the special composition of the
Sandiganbayan and the
special procedure of appeal
provided for it in P.D. 1606
does not infringe the
constitutional injunction
against ex-post facto laws.
The creation of a special
court to take cognizance of,
try and decide crimes already
committed is not a
constitutional abnormality.
Otherwise, there would be
chaos in the prosecution of
offenses which in the public
interest must be dealt with
more expeditiously in
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456 SUPREME COURT

REPORTS
ANNOTATED
Nuñez vs. Sandiganbayan

order to curtail any fast

surging tide of evil-doing
against the social order.
Since the Sandiganbayan
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