DR. V.

ORESTES ROMUALDEZ EDUCATIONAL

FOUNDATION (DVOREF)

TACLOBAN CITY

PRACTICE COURT II

OBSERVATION REPORT ON THE CONDUCT OF

DIRECT AND CROSS EXAMINATION OF A WITNESS

SUBMITTED BY:

DOLINA, GREGORIO JR., P.

LLB 4A, SY 2010-2011

SUBMITTED TO:

JUDGE ALPHINOR C. SERRANO

 1.TITLE OF THE CASE: PEOPLE OF THE

PHILIPPINES, plaintiff,
-VERSUS-

JONATHAN MERCADO,

accused.

CASE NUMBER: CRIMINAL CASE NOS. 2003-

06-348 & 349

NATURE OF THE CASE: VIOLATION OF SECs 5

& 11, ART II OF R.A. 9165

2. NAME AND QUALIFICATION OF THE WITNESS:
P/INSP. ELNORA PARINA, 41 YEARS OLD,

SINGLE, MEMBER OF THE PNP, ASSIGNED AT

THE REGIONAL CRIME LABORATORY OFFICE

8, CAMP KANGLEON, PALO, LEYTE AND A

RESIDENT OF TACLOBAN CITY.

3. NAME OF DIRECT EXAMINER: PROS. PERCIVAL

DOLINA
NAME OF CROSS EXAMINER: ATTY. DANIEL

MATRIANO
4. KIND OF WITNESS: COROBORRATIVE
5. BRIEF TESTIMONY OF THE WITNESS:

that the witness testified that she was already

a policewoman sometime in 2003, assigned at

Regional Crime Laboratory Office 8 and has the

duties and responsibilities of receiving

 communications as well as to receive physical

evidence for laboratory examinations.

That the witness received in her office a

document requesting for a chemical examination of

a specimens enclosed in a cellophane purporting to

be a methamphetamine hydrochloride or locally

known as shabu.

That after receiving such evidence, the witness

turned it over to PS1 Pinky Saycon Acog who was

then the Forensic Chemical Officer at that time.

6. Demeanor of the witness:

that the witness was only following the Chain

of Custody; that she testified accordingly to her

duties and responsibilities as a policewoman and an

officer of the law, in-charge of receiving

communications as well as, by recording the

physical evidence submitted for forensic

examination in their office, such as the seized

alleged shabu.

7. Credibility of the witnesss testimony? Probability?

that the testimony of the witness was credible

on the ground that the witness was only following the

Chain of Custody in the proper handling of the

evidence when such is received by her in her office

and was likewise probable, for she was a lady and an

officer of the Philippine National Police (PNP).