The Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction for murder and the life imprisonment imposed by the trial court and later by the Court of Appeals on road rage killer Jason Ivler for the death of the son of a former Malacanang official in 2009.
In a recent resolution, the SC dismissed the petition of Ivler who was convicted for killing Renato Ebale Jr., son of former presidential chief of staff Renato Ebarle Sr.
The SC ruled that Ivler “failed to sufficiently show that the Court of Appeals committed any reversible error in the assailed decision as to warrant the exercise of the Court’s appellate jurisdiction.”
In upholding the 2015 ruling of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court, the CA, in its 2017 decision, said that “contrary to Ivler’s contention, the prosecution has proven all of the elements of murder.”
Case records showed that on Nov. 18, 2009, Ivler – nephew of folk singer Freddie Aguilar – shot Ebarle Jr. over a traffic altercation in Quezon City.
The same records showed that after the shooting, Ivler hurriedly left the scene of the crime. He was arrested on Jan. 18, 2010 at the residence of his mother, Marlene Aguilar, by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation.
After the trial, the RTC sentenced him to 40 years in jail, life imprisonment, and was ordered to pay civil damages to the Ebarle family. (Rey Panaligan)
