This web page
features the full text of
A.M. NO.
02-2-07-SC
A.M.
NO. 02-2-07-SC
Effective
May 01, 2002
EN
BANC RESOLUTION
RE: PROPOSED
AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 5, RULE 110 OF THE
REVISED RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Acting on the
Memorandum
dated 2 February 2002 of Court Administrator Prosbitero J. Velasco, Jr.
submitting for this Court's consideration and approval the proposed
amendment
to Sec. 5, Rule 110 of the Revised
Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Court Resolved to APPROVE the
amendment
to Sec. 5, Rule 110 so as to read as follows:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
"Section
5. Who must prosecute criminal action. - All criminal actions
either
commenced by complaint or by information shall be prosecuted under the
direction and control of a public prosecutor. In case of heavy work
schedule
of the public prosecutor or in the event of lack of public prosecutors,
the private prosecutor may be authorized in writing by the Chief of the
Prosecution Office or the Regional State Prosecutor to prosecute the
case
subject to the approval of the court. Once so authorized to prosecute
the
criminal action, the private prosecutor shall continue to prosecute the
case up to end of the trial even in the absence of a public prosecutor,
unless the authority is revoked or otherwise withdrawn. x x x."
This amendment
to Rule
110 shall take effect on the first day of May 2002 following its
publication
in two newspapers of general circulation on or before 30 April 2002.
April 10, 2002.
HILARIO
G. DAVIDE,
JR.
Chief
Justice
Associate
Justices:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
JOSUE N.
BELLOSILLO
JOSE A.R.
MELO
REYNATO S.
PUNO
JOSE C.
VITUG
SANTIAGO M.
KAPUNAN
VICENTE V.
MENDOZA
ARTEMIO V.
PANGANIBAN
LEONARDO A.
QUISUMBING
CONSUELO
YNARES-SANTIAGO
SABINO E.
DE
LEON, JR.
ANGELINA
SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ
ANTONIO T.
CARPIO | Back
to Top - Back
to Home - Back
to Main Index
|