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PEOPLE v. JEAN BALINGAN Y BOBBONAN

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2014-02-18
ABAD, J.
Then again in People v. Balingan,[283] this court held that there was a valid search and seizure, even if done in a moving vehicle. It gave the rationale for this holding:We also find no merit in appellant's argument that the marijuana flowering tops should be excluded as evidence, they being the products of an alleged illegal warrantless search. The search and seizure in the case at bench happened in a moving, public vehicle. In the recent case of People vs. Lo Ho Wing, 193 SCRA 122 (1991), this Court gave its approval to a warrantless search done on a taxicab which yielded the illegal drug commonly known as shabu. In that case, we raciocinated: