Cracking the Planted Evidence: A Legal Approach By Jomz Planting or tampering with Evidence is condemnable yet is committed by many public officers with evil motives. Many have become a victim and suffered injustice because of these fabricated lies that rip the confidence reposed by the people to the government. Legal history and court cases have been infected and this has caused a legal challenge to many lawyers and law experts. However, the recent Supreme Court Decision in the case Miranda Clemente y Diaz vs. People of the Philippines, G.R. No. 243159, dated February 13, 2023, has shed light of hope in order to prevent injustice that may fall upon an innocent person. In this case, the accused was arrested on the grounds of violating section 844 of the Revised Ordinance of the City of Manila, which punishes the breach of peace. Incidental to that arrest, a body search was carried out and arresting officers discovered a transparent plastic sachet containing a white crystalline ...