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Roberto Quiachon was convicted of raping his 8-year-old deaf-mute daughter and sentenced to death. However, a new law (RA 9346) was passed prohibiting the death penalty. The court ruled that RA 9346 should apply retroactively to Quiachon in accordance with the legal principle that favors ampliandi sunt; odia restringenda, which means penal laws favorable to the accused should be applied retroactively. Therefore, Quiachon

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John Kenneth Contreras

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