(PNA) – A Cebu City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge has meted the accused in the killing of Pagadian City broadcaster Edgar Amoro a sentence of not more than 30 years in jail.
Judge Ester Veloso, presiding judge of RTC Branch 6 in Cebu City, also ordered Mohammad "Madix" Maulana to pay Amoro’s heirs P100,000 as moral damages, P50,000 as civil indemnity, P25,000 as exemplary damages and P20,000 as temperate damages.
It took six prosecution witnesses to convince Judge Veloso that accused Maulana shot dead Amoro in 2005.
Veloso gave weight to the testimony of Erlinda Amoro, widow of slain radio commentator Edgar Amoro.
She pointed to Maulana as the one who attacked her husband.
Veloso said circumstances narrated by Erlinda and her husband’s “dying declaration†were admissible in court.
â€The rule is that, in order to make a dying declaration admissible, a fixed belief is inevitable and imminent death must be entered by the declarant (Amoro),†the judge said.
â€It is the belief in the impending death and not the rapid succession of death in point of fact that renders the dying declaration admissible,†she said.
Maulana had denied the accusation, saying he was not in Pagadian City on the day of the killing. He was in the nearby town of Dinas to attend his younger sister’s wedding.
He presented the marriage contract and pictures of the wedding. He said he was not in any of the pictures because he was inside.
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