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                   RA 9208  |  Criminal Law  FACTS: The RTC and CA convicted Fernando B. Arambulo for the crime of Qualified Trafficking in Persons. Petitioner and his minor son, Dominique Dimple Arambulo , invited the latter's three (3) schoolmates who were also minors, namely AAA, BBB, and CCC, 10 to their house sometime in 2011. It was then revealed that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss petitioner's plans to commit robberies with the help of AAA, BBB, and CCC. Upon learning about this, CCC expressed his desire to leave but petitioner got angry and punched him; thus, he was forced to join the group. AAA, BBB, and CCC then similarly testified that not only was petitioner the mastermind of the series of robberies they subsequently committed against various people, but he was also the driver of their getaway tricycle. ISSUE: WoN  the petitioner's conviction for trafficking in persons should be set aside ...

     Crimes Against Personal Liberty and Security |   Criminal Law RA 4200 –  Anti-Wiretapping Act of 1965 Crime of wiretapping - It shall be unlawful for any person, not being authorized by all  the parties to any private communication or spoken word, to tap any wire or cable, or by using any other device or arrangement, to secretly overhear, intercept, or record such communication or spoken word by using a device commonly known as a dictaphone or dictagraph or detectaphone or walkie-talkie or tape recorder, or however otherwise described. It shall also be unlawful for any person, be the a participant or not in the act or acts penalized in the next preceding sentence, to knowingly possess any tape record, wirerecord, disc record, or any other such record, or copies thereof , of any communication or spoken word secured either before or after the effective date of this Act in the manner prohibited by this law; or to r eplay the same for any othe...