Criminal procedure digest

Petitioner was afforded the opportunity to answer the charges against him during the preliminary investigation

Jurisprudence dictates that the Court do not interfere with the discretion of the Ombudsman in its conduct of preliminary investigations

The CA ruled that theoffense already prescribed because the filing of the case in the OCP interrupted theprescriptive period but such period resumed when the City Prosecutor approved therecommendation of the investigating prosecutor to file the proper criminal information