The Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday downgraded criminal charges against the policemen who were implicated in the killing of Albuera (Leyte) Mayor Rolando Espinosa and another inmate in a sub-provincial jail last November 5.

The charges for murder, a non-bailable offense, were reduced to charges for homicide, which is bailable.

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