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2013-07-03 |
PEREZ, J. |
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| Jurisprudence has it that in a petition for review on certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court, only questions of law may be raised.[20] As held in the case of Solmayor v. Arroyo,[21] it is not the function of this Court to analyze and weigh evidence all over again. This is premised on the presumed thorough appreciation of the facts by the lower courts. Such that, when the trial court and the appellate court, as in this case, reached opposite conclusions, a review of the facts may be done. There is a permissible scope of judicial review on the factual findings of the lower courts as crystallized in Treñas v. People of the Philippines,[22] where the Court cited contradictory findings of the Court of Appeals and the trial court as one of the instances where the resolution of the petition requires a review of the factual findings of the lower courts and the evidence upon which they are based. | |||||