The Supreme Court has sustained the conviction of Jason Ivler for the killing of the son of former Malacañang official in a road rage incident in Quezon City in 2009.
In a two-page resolution dated Nov. 11, 2019, the SC’s Second Division denied the appeal of Ivler for "failure 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."
The high court also upheld the sentence of reclusion perpetua or up to 40 years of imprisonment imposed against Ivler, but it modified the damages awarded to the family of his victim, then 27-year-old Renato Ebarle Jr.
The tribunal ordered the family of Ivler to compensate Ebarle's family for the loss of earning capacity in the amount of P9.12 million. The amount will be on top of the other penalties that needed to be paid, such as the P616,590 in actual damages or the cost of the burial expenses, P75,000 in moral damages, P75,000 in exemplary damages, and P75,000 in civil indemnity.
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 84 and the Court of Appeals, in their respective decisions was not able to account the victim’s loss of earning capacity.
The SC also ruled that all monetary award shall earn an interest of six percent per annum from the date of finality of its ruling until full payment.