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2013-01-30 |
LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, J. |
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| This statement deserves scant consideration. It is an established jurisprudential rule that denial and alibi, being negative self-serving defenses, cannot prevail over the affirmative allegations of the victim and her categorical and positive identification of the accused as her assailant.[33] | |||||
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2012-06-13 |
DEL CASTILLO, J. |
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| The Court had consistently acknowledged that "[a]t the core of almost all rape cases, the credibility of the victim's testimony is crucial in view of the intrinsic nature of the crime where only the participants therein can testify to its occurrence."[36] Hence, "the testimony of the complainant must be examined with extreme care for, whether the case results in conviction or in acquittal, the final outcome would almost invariably be dependent on what the victim declares and on how she has stood and comported herself at the witness stand during questioning."[37] | |||||