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PEOPLE v. WU TUAN YUAN

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2009-12-16
VELASCO JR., J.
Besides, we will not be remiss to point out that, in many cases, drug pushers sell their prohibited articles to prospective customers, be they strangers or not, in private as well as in public places, even in daytime.[19] What matters is not the existing familiarity between the buyer and the seller, or the time and venue of the sale, but the fact of agreement as well as the act constituting the sale and delivery of prohibited drugs.[20]
2006-11-27
TINGA, J.
The failure of Narcom agents to use fluorescent powder on the boodle money does not indicate a failure in the buy-bust operation. It has been held that the use of fluorescent powder is not indispensable in such operations.[40] There is no requirement that the police must apply fluorescent powder to the buy-bust money to prove the commission of the offense. What is material is the delivery of the prohibited drug to the buyer which, in this case, was sufficiently proved by the prosecution through the testimony of the poseur-buyer and the presentation of the article itself before the court.[41] Besides, the money was already marked by the poseur-buyer with his initials, "CG."[42] Neither is fingerprinting a requirement in buy-bust operations. There is no law or rule of evidence requiring the use of fluorescent powder or the taking of the culprit's fingerprints from the bag containing the shabu.[43]
2004-07-13
CARPIO MORALES, J.
Peddlers of illicit drugs have been known, with ever increasing casualness and recklessness, to offer and sell their wares for the right price to anybody, be they strangers or not,[38] what matters being not the existing familiarity between the buyer and the seller, or the time and venue of the sale, but the fact of agreement as well as the act constituting the sale and delivery of prohibited drugs.[39] Besides, the success of every buy-bust operation depends largely on the concealed identity of the poseur-buyer such that it has become a standard operating procedure to designate as poseur-buyer one who is a total stranger to a suspected seller of prohibited drugs in the area of operation.[40]