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2014-02-25 |
PERALTA, J. |
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| In Justimbaste v. Commission on Elections,[13] where petitioner therein claimed that respondent committed material misrepresentation when he stated his name in the COC as Rustico Besa Balderian instead of Chu Teck Siao, we found that it had been established that in all of respondent's school records, he had been using Rustico Besa Balderian, the name under which he was baptized and known since he can remember. He never used the name Chu Teck Siao by which he was registered. It was also established that he had filed a petition for change of name to avoid any confusion and which the RTC had granted. We then said, that | |||||
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2012-10-09 |
CARPIO, J. |
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| In Lacuna v. Abes,[16] the Court, speaking through Justice J.B.L. Reyes, explained the import of the accessory penalty of perpetual special disqualification: On the first defense of respondent-appellee Abes, it must be remembered that appellee's conviction of a crime penalized with prisión mayor which carried the accessory penalties of temporary absolute disqualification and perpetual special disqualification from the right of suffrage (Article 42, Revised Penal Code); and Section 99 of the Revised Election Code disqualifies a person from voting if he had been sentenced by final judgment to suffer one year or more of imprisonment. | |||||