Illegal search on the person ... must necessarily be acquitted and exonerated from criminal liability.

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"All told, the Bantay Bayan operatives conducted an illegal search on the person of petitioner. Consequently, the marijuana purportedly seized from him on account of such search is rendered inadmissible in evidence pursuant to the exclusionary rule under Section 3 (2), Article III of the 1987 Constitution. Since the confiscated marijuana is the very corpus delicti of the crime charged, petitioner must necessarily be acquitted and exonerated from criminal liability."

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See People v. Manago, supra note 29, citing Comerciante v. People, supra note 31, at 641.

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[2017V499] JEFFREY MIGUEL Y REMEGIO, PETITIONER, VS. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, RESPONDENT.