Court of Appeals (CA) corrects death certificate of drug war victim. 

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On December 2, 2016, during the Duterte administration's anti-drug campaign, Baylon was hit by a stray bullet in Caloocan City, in a shooting that also killed two women. 

The CA reversed the decision of the Regional Trial Court Branch 232 of Caloocan City, which denied Lenin's father Rodrigo Baylon's petition to compel the Local Civil Registry of Caloocan City to make the necessary correction, in a decision dated November 15, 2022. 

CA's decision dated Nov. 15, 2022. 📷: Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News 

On December 2, 2016, Lenin was playing in a computer shop when gunmen chasing two women appeared nearby, according to the CA. 

Later, gunshots were heard, and stray bullets struck Lenin. 

“Considering the aforestated circumstances, let alone the fact that Lenin’s death was caused by a gunshot would has been sufficiently proven, it would indeed be fair and equitable that the genuine cause of Lenin’s death be reflected in the death certificate,” the court said in the decision penned by Associate Justice Roberto Quiroz, with the concurrence of Associate Justices Ramon Bato, Jr. and Germano Francisco Legaspi. 

The funeral parlor that serviced Lenin's body made the bronchopneumonia entry after Lenin's sister Mayone Baylon signed a waiver. 

“With the appellant’s desire to have his son laid down and considering the rampant killings which might prejudice the family in the locality, he kept mum despite knowledge of his son’s real cause of death,” the court said. 

Legal counsel for Lenin's family, Atty. According to Mario Maderazo, their fight for justice for Lenin and at least 5 to 10 other victims who require death certificate corrections does not end with the CA decision. (news.abs-cbn.com)

Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla stated on Tuesday that cases similar to the Lenin Baylon case that the DOJ is investigating may result in the conviction of doctors and commanders. 

Remulla told GMA News Online that he and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have been investigating nine cases similar to Baylon's in which the cause of death was changed on the death certificate. 

Previously, the Justice Secretary stated that he would share all drug war findings and files with the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). 

In August, Justice Undersecretary Jesse Andres stated that six of the 52 drug war cases published by the agency had been dismissed, while seven were still being investigated. 

Since 2016, the DOJ has also investigated 352 cases in which people were killed during police anti-drug operations. (www.gmanetwork.com)