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	GR No. 162808 2008-04-22	FELICIANO GALVANTE v. ORLANDO C. CASIMIRO AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, J.
The criminal complaint for abitrary detention was likewise properly dismissed by public respondents. To sustain a criminal charge for arbitrary detention, it must be shown that (a) the offender is a public officer or employee, (b) the offender detained the complainant, and (c) the detention is without legal grounds.[41] The second element was not alleged by petitioner in his Affidavit-Complaint. As pointed out by private respondent Conde in his Comment[42] and Memorandum,[43] petitioner himself identified in his Affidavit-Complaint that it was Police Chief Rocacorba who caused his detention. Nowhere in said affidavit did petitioner allege that private respondents effected his detention, or were in any other way involved in it.[44] There was, therefore, no factual or legal basis to sustain the criminal charge for arbitrary detention against private respondents.
	GR NO. 176158 2007-03-27	PEOPLE v. ROLANDO CABINAN YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.
The trial court's factual findings are conclusive and binding upon appellate courts unless some facts or circumstances of weight and substance have been overlooked, misapprehended or misinterpreted.[7] In the instant case, we find no reason to disturb the findings of the trial court.
	GR No. 154130 2004-08-20	BENITO ASTORGA v. PEOPLE YNARES-SATIAGO, J.
That the detention is without legal grounds.[8]