THE Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed a ruling of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Legazpi City (Albay) sentencing a drug dealer to life imprisonment and slapping him with P5-million fine.

Associate Justice Romeo Barza, in the 20-page ruling concurred in by Associate Justices Andres Reyes Jr. and Henri Jean Paul Inting of the CA’s Special First Division, dismissed the appeal of Jamilah Lidas who was convicted by Legazpi RTC, Branch 1, in September 2014.

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