![]() Mary Jane's family immediately confronted Cristina who instead of helping them even threatened them to keep the matter to themselves and not to divulge the same especially to the media. Mary Jane sought comfort from her family in the Philippines and informed them that she was currently detained in Indonesia. She was accordingly charged with drug trafficking before the District Court of Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Upon Mary Jane's arrival at the Adisucipto International Airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, she was apprehended by the police officers for allegedly carrying 2.6 kilograms of heroin inside her luggage. Cristina gave Mary Jane her plane ticket as well as a luggage to bring on her trip. After spending a few days in Malaysia, Cristina sent Mary Jane to Indonesia for a seven-day holiday with a promise that she will have a job upon her return in Malaysia. However, to Mary Jane's dismay, she was informed by Cristina upon their arrival in Malaysia that the job intended for her was no longer available. On April 21, 2010, Mary Jane, together with Cristina, eventually left the Philippines for Malaysia. Still, the amount gathered was insufficient prompting Mary Jane's husband to sell even their precious motorcycle. Believing that the job was a ray of hope, Mary Jane scraped whatever meager money she had and when the amount was not even enough to pay Cristina and Julius as placement fee, she resorted to borrowing from relatives. Taking advantage of her dire situation and susceptibility, Cristina and Julius offered Mary Jane a job as a domestic helper in Malaysia. Lacanilao (Julius) were friends and neighbors in Talavera, Nueva Ecija. Domingo, Nueva Ecija, granting the motion of the prosecution to take the deposition by written interrogatories of Mary Jane in Indonesia. 149002 which granted respondent's Petition for Certiorari and Prohibition and reversed the August 16,2016 Resolution 3 of the Regional Trial Court (trial court), Branch 88, of Sto. This petition for review on certiorari 1 under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court assails the DecemDecision 2 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. May a prosecution witness, like Mary Jane Veloso (Mary Jane), who was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to death by the Indonesian Government and who is presently confined in a prison facility in Indonesia, testify by way of deposition without violating the constitutional right to confrontation of a witness by the accused? The peculiar factual circumstances surrounding the present case give rise to a novel question of law. SERGIO AND JULIUS LACANILAO, RESPONDENTS. ![]() PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PETITIONER, VS.
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