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Jan 19, 2000 self-defense homicide excessive-force criminal-law supreme-court revised-penal-code

When Excessive Force Destroys a Self-Defense Claim in Philippine Homicide Cases

The Supreme Court explains why 16 stab wounds negate self-defense and how excessive force turns a killing into homicide, not murder.