Posts Tagged ‘Silvestre Sanggalan’

In my previous post about the court upholding the credibility of the Deaf witness, I also saw another important aspect that I feel must be emphasized on the decision our Supreme Court made, the competence of a sign language interpreter.

The highest court of the land upheld the statements of the deaf-mute Silvestre Sanggalan, who was the main witness in the brutal rape-slay of Aurea Eugenio, a bookkeeper employed by the Centro Escolar University Credit Cooperative in Manila on January 4, 1995.