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PEOPLE v. REYNALDO TOLENTINO Y SANTOS

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	GR No. 183569 2011-04-13	PEOPLE v. VICENTE PUBLICO Y AMODIA SERENO, J.
The act of poking a knife at a woman is sufficient to render her powerless, leaving her with the impossible choice of either allowing the accused to use her to satisfy his lust or to resist the desires of the accused at the risk of her own life. It has been held that the mere display of a knife is sufficient to bring a woman to submission. [22] In testifying that accused-appellant used weapons in order for complainants to submit to his desire, the latter sufficiently established that he had used force and intimidation in committing the offenses charged.
	GR NO. 170849 2007-03-07	PEOPLE v. EDUARDO MORAN JR. Y GORDULA CHICO-NAZARIO, J.
A related rule is that the totality or the unbroken chain of the circumstances proved leads to no other logical conclusion than the guilt of the appellant.[9]
	GR No. 143716 2002-04-05	PEOPLE v. ROLANDO OBQUIA MENDOZA, J.
The commission of rape with force and intimidation was sufficiently established in this case. The evidence shows that Marietta struggled against accused-appellant, but she was overpowered by him. She wanted to shout, but accused-appellant threatened her with a knife. Indeed, it has been held that there is intimidation where the victim is threatened with a knife and she is brought to submission against her will as a result thereof.[24]
	GR Nos. 139445-46 2001-06-20	PEOPLE v. RODRIGO GONZALES Y OPENA MENDOZA, J.
Accused-appellant relies solely for his defense on denial and alibi. However, alibi cannot prevail over complainant's positive identification of accused-appellant.[17] Moreover, for alibi to prosper, it must be shown that it was impossible for the accused to have been present at the scene of the crime at the time of its commission.[18] In these cases, accused-appellant himself admitted that the garbage dumpsite where he allegedly was at the time of the commission of the rapes is only a kilometer away from his house and it would take only 15 minutes to negotiate the distance by foot. Thus, even if he was in that place at the time material to these cases, it was not impossible for him to go home and commit the crimes, and then be back at the dumpsite. It is noteworthy that although accused-appellant said he was with other people at the dumpsite, he did not present any of them to support his alibi.