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    The Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Freddie Lizada for qualified rape. The Regional Trial Court that originally convicted Lizada failed to comply with constitutional requirements to state the specific facts and law justifying its decision. The medical evidence showed the victim's hymen was intact and there was no injury from penetration by an adult male organ. The victim's sister also testified that Lizada did not insert his penis. The Supreme Court found the evidence only sufficient to convict Lizada of two counts of simple rape, carrying a penalty of reclusion perpetua rather than the death penalty imposed by the lower court.

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    The Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Freddie Lizada for qualified rape. The Regional Trial Court that originally convicted Lizada failed to comply with constitutional requirements to state the specific facts and law justifying its decision. The medical evidence showed the victim's hymen was intact and there was no injury from penetration by an adult male organ. The victim's sister also testified that Lizada did not insert his penis. The Supreme Court found the evidence only sufficient to convict Lizada of two counts of simple rape, carrying a penalty of reclusion perpetua rather than the death penalty imposed by the lower court.

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    The Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Freddie Lizada for qualified rape. The Regional Trial Court that originally convicted Lizada failed to comply with constitutional requirements to state the specific facts and law justifying its decision. The medical evidence showed the victim's hymen was intact and there was no injury from penetration by an adult male organ. The victim's sister also testified that Lizada did not insert his penis. The Supreme Court found the evidence only sufficient to convict Lizada of two counts of simple rape, carrying a penalty of reclusion perpetua rather than the death penalty imposed by the lower court.

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    ARTICLE VII, SEC.

    14 Judicial Department
    Powers of the Supreme Court

    PEOPLE v. LIZADA
    G.R. NO. 143468, January 24, 2003

    POINT OF THE CASE: No decision shall be rendered by any court without expressing therein
    the facts and the law on which it is based.

    FACTS OF THE CASE: Freddie Lizada was charged with four counts of qualified rape by his
    stepdaughter, Analia Orillosa by embracing, kissing, and touching her private parts and then proceeded
    with carnal knowledge to remove her skirt and panty and placed himself on top of her and tried to insert
    his penis into her vagina.
    But the medical examination revealed that Analia’s hymen was intact, and the other parts of her
    vagina was not injured due to an insertion of average-sized adult Filipino male organ in full erection. The
    testimony of Analia’s sister is also affirmative to the result of the medico legal and said that Lizada did not
    insert his penis because he stopped when he saw her.
    RTC accused guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime charged against him and sentenced to
    Death Penalty in each and every case. However, Lizada opposed the sentence and claimed that the
    prosecution failed to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt and that the testimony of Analia’s sister was
    not taken into consideration in the decision.

    ISSUE: Whether or not Freddie Lizada is guilty of qualified rape


    RULING: No. The Regional trial court failed to comply with the requirements under the Constitution
    and the Rules of Criminal Procedure and failed to specifically state the facts proven by the prosecution.
    Furthermore, it did not also specify the factual and legal bases for its imposition of the supreme penalty of
    death on accused-appellant. As reference to the Section 14, Article 8 of the Constitution, no decision shall
    be rendered by any court without expressing therein the facts and the law on which it is based.
    And that due to insufficient weight of evidence, the Court ruled that Lizada is guilty only of two
    counts of simple rape instead of qualified rape to which the penalty is only reclusion perpetua.

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