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                    [ArticleID] => 497134
                    [Title] => Ang kalag sa kaso ni Michel ug Ecleo
                    [Summary] => 

Namatay na lang si Michel Favila ang nag-unang akusado sa kaso sa pagpatay ni Atty. Arbet Santa Ana Yonco pero ang iyang kaso wa pa gyod tawon mahuman.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133434 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1337067 [AuthorName] => Gerry Auxilio [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 389365 [Title] => Court summons BBRC doc to testify on Favila's health [Summary] => If the court finds the city jail doctor competent enough to administer the medical procedures for Michel Favila, the murder suspect may no longer have to be admitted in the hospital, as requested by his lawyers.

Regional Trial Court Branch 20 Judge Bienvenido Saniel Jr. yesterday ordered Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center jail doctor Juan Reyes to be placed on the witness stand today so could tell the court whether he is capable of administering the procedures enumerated by the doctor who had examined Favila in the hospital the other week.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388161 [Title] => Prosecution moves to oppose Favila's CCMC confinement [Summary] => The prosecution panel in the murder case against Michel Favila has filed a formal opposition to his request in court for confinement at the Cebu City Medical Center.

In their pleading before the court, the prosecutors said the Health Service Referral that Favila has attached to his motion "does not in any manner state a necessity, let alone an urgent one, for the hospital confinement of accused Favila."
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 387674 [Title] => Court orders two defendants to file 'demurrer to evidence' in Yongco case [Summary] => The Regional Trial Court has ordered two of the three accused in the murder of lawyer Arbet Sta Ana Yongco to file their respective demurer to evidence within 10 days after receiving the order that granted them a "leave of court."

A "leave of court" is a permission from the court to take action that would otherwise not be permissible. And the 10-day period within which to file the demurrer could not be extended, said RTC-branch 20 Judge Bienvenido Saniel Jr.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 364053 [Title] => Defense lawyer grills Arbet case witness [Summary] => A defense lawyer in the case on the murder of Arbet Sta. Ana Yongco, the private prosecutor of the parricide case against cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr., yesterday grilled the state witness against the three accused.

In an effort to show to the court that Eddie Ardeta is not a credible witness, defense lawyer Noel Archival focused his cross-examination on trying to let the witness recall even the smallest details of his activity prior to Yongco's killing.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 284594 [Title] => Yongco slay witness corrects statement [Summary] => The fifth prosecution witness in the killing of lawyer Arbet Sta. Ana-Yongco yesterday corrected a statement she made in her testimony the other day, saying she was "in a state of mental block" when she made her previous statement due to the "booming voice" of the defense lawyer.

While Eugena Teofilo, 32, earlier said that Michel Favila, the main suspect in Yongco's killing, was standing infront of a motorcycle outside Yongco's house the day she was killed, Teofilo amended her statement yesterday saying Favila was actually on the left side of the motorcycle.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 282404 [Title] => Ballistic chief: One gun was used in slay [Summary] => The four spent shells recovered from the place, where lawyer Arbet Sta. Ana-Yongco was killed, came from only one firearm, according to the head of the PNP Crime Laboratory Ballistic Branch yesterday.

Chief Inspector Zosimo Duyogan testified, in yesterday's hearing of the murder case, that ballistics tests on the spent bullets showed these were fired from a caliber-.45 gun.

He later admitted however he did not examine the supposedly used gun because it was not turned over to him for examination.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1528106 [AuthorName] => Mitchelle P. Calipayan [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 269889 [Title] => Defense panel to call Osmeña to witness stand [Summary] => CEBU CITY — The defense lawyers of the key suspect and his three alleged conspirators in the murder of Cebuano lawyer Arbet Sta. Ana-Yongco, said it will present 16 witnesses, including Mayor Tomas Osmeña.

Osmeña will only be asked to confirm his statement, quoted in media reports, that he offered a cash reward to anybody who could identify Yongco’s killer, the defense panel said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1525909 [AuthorName] => Mitchelle Calipayan [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267025 [Title] => Freedom of suspect in lawyer’s slay in the hands of DOJ panel [Summary] => CEBU CITY — Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez is leaving it up to the prosecution panel to decide on the request of the primary suspect in the killing of lawyer Arbet Sta. Ana-Yongco, to have his freedom back.

The decision would be known once the panel, composed of prosecutors from the Department of Justice in Manila, will meet to decide if there would be further proceedings on the Yongco case or not.

"We can just deny it but we still have to find out," Gonzalez told The Freeman in a telephone interview.
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1789631 [AuthorName] => Wenna Berondo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 266817 [Title] => Ecleo follower denies killing Cebuano lawyer [Summary] => CEBU CITY — The main suspect in the killing of lawyer Arbet Sta. Ana-Yongco denied the charges against him in a 65-page counter-affidavit he submitted to the city prosecutor’s office the other day.

Michel Favila, a follower of cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr., cited six main arguments in his defense:

• The witnesses identified two different suspects;

• There are disparities in the description of the gunman’s general appearance;
[DatePublished] => 2004-11-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804727 [AuthorName] => Joeberth Ocao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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