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Probation Application Ruling in G.R. No. 240843 by LIZA MERL C. TANAY is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The petitioner was convicted of falsifying a public document by claiming to be a Filipino citizen when he was actually a Chinese national without citizenship on his voter registration form. He applied for probation instead of appealing the conviction. The trial court granted probation but the appellate court and trial court denied it for different reasons. The Supreme Court found that the denial reasons were incorrect and that probation should have been granted based on the facts that he was eligible under

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LIZA MERL C. TANAY

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