Nanay At Law

10/02/2025

ONE OF THE FEW

To some prosecutors, securing convictions of accused charged with generic crimes (theft, robbery, estafa etc.) is just an ordinary part of their job.

But not when the conviction pertains to crimes which are rarely filed and prosecuted. To be more specific, I prosecuted a criminal case for violation of the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act (RA 9995). The accused was caught taking video of the victim while taking a bath.

I presented only three witnesses. I was able to prove the elements of the offense.

Here, the trial court imposed a penalty of imprisonment ranging from 4 years 6 months and one day as minimum to 6 years and 10 months as maximum plus a hefty fine of Php300k and Php100,000.00 as civil liability.

Our jurisprudence on this law is scarce. As far as I know, only one case was decided by the Court, i.e. ### v. People, G.R. No. 261049, June 26, 2023, penned by Justice Mario.Lopez, on Anti-Voyeurism.

Peeping Toms, read this case.

05/12/2023

May God be with you all, dear barristers! 🙏🤲

By God's glory, today is the day you will finally claim that ATTY. before your name.💜

27/05/2023

with my son

He was tasked to write a speech for the SPG campaign next week. After I made some little tweaks on his draft speech...

Son: I wanna quiiittt.

Me: Why?

S: I don't want to memorize. I have short-term memory.

M: NO, you can't quit. Not when it is too late for the party to choose another Grade 4 Rep. Besides, you decided on your own. You haven't even consulted me on this. You've got to man up and keep your words.

S: But I can't memorize. Can I just read my speech? I can just read it. I have short-term memoryyyy.

M: No. If you keep saying that, you having a short memory gets wired in your brain and your brain will do just that — have a short-term memory. You are great. You can do so much better than just read your speech.

S: *baby-crying*

M: If you memorize just half of it, I'm gonna let you use your tablet for an hour and then you have to memorize the rest after.

S: Oookkkaaaaayyy.

After about 3 minutes of crying-trying to memorize half of his short speech...

S: Okay. Let me try. *recited*

M: See?! YOU are great! Awesome! That's barely 3 minutes and you memorized half of your speech! You did it!

S: *silly-smiling*

Gadget-motivated or truly smart lang?! 😂🤣

26/05/2023

We badly need THIS new directive.

It's high time. ⚖️🖤

25/05/2023

Lagi na lang akong huli sa latest tsismis! Ke Bored Lawyer na lang talaga ako naa-update. 🙄😅

Napapa-search agad ako pag nag-post si torney ey! 🤪

Coco Martin has finally confirmed that he’s in a relationship with Julia Montes for 12 years, putting an end to longstanding speculations about their romantic status.

25/05/2023

Continue being YOUman and you'll be irreplaceable. 🔥

25/05/2023

Why ⚖️ 𝗡𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘄 💕?

Because I wanted to be reminded every day that I am a 𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘆, 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, and a forever learner of the 𝗹𝗮𝘄, 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥.

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