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2014-02-12 |
PERLAS-BERNABE, J. |
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| All told, the prosecution has failed to show that the circumstances invoked constitute an unbroken chain of events which lead to a fair and reasonable conclusion that petitioners are, to the exclusion of the others, indeed the culprits. As such, their conviction, tested under the threshold of proof beyond reasonable doubt, was not warranted. To be sure, proof beyond reasonable doubt is the degree of proof that, after investigation of the whole record, produces moral certainty in an unprejudiced mind of the accused's culpability.[89] Such moral certainty is, however, lacking in this case due to the insufficiency of the circumstantial evidence presented. | |||||