CIRCULAR
NO. 31-97
TO: ALL
JUDGES OF SPECIAL COURTS FOR KIDNAPPING, ROBBERY, CARNAPPING, DANGEROUS
DRUGS CASES AND OTHER HEINOUS CRIMES
SUBJECT:
AMENDMENT OF A.O. NO. 104-96 DATED OCTOBER 21, 1996 WITH RESPECT TO "VIOLATIONS
OF DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT" OF 1972, AS AMENDED.
For the information
and guidance of all concerned, quoted hereunder is the pertinent
portion
of the Resolution of the Court En Banc in Administrative Matter
No. 96-11-421-RTC Re: Request of Judge Jose Catral Mendoza, RTC, Br.
219,
Quezon City dated April 15, 1997, to wit:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
"x
x x the Court Resolved to AMEND Administrative Order No. 104-96,
dated October 21, 1996, with respect only to the violation of the
Dangerous
Drugs Act of 1972, as amended, if the imposable penalty is reclusion
perpetua to death. Thus, if the imposable penalty is below reclusion
perpetua, the drug related cases will be raffled among the regular
courts as ordinary criminal cases."
For immediate
compliance.
May 15,1997.
[Sgd.]
ALFREDO
L. BENIPAYOCourt
Administrator
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