Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

== Julio Nalundasan assassination ==
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[[Julio Nalundasan]] was a Filipino lawyer/politician and a political rival of Mariano Marcos's. He was killed with a single rifle shot at his home in [[Batac]] on September 21, 1935, after the day after he had defeated Marcos a second time for a seat in the [[National Assembly of the Philippines|National Assembly]].<ref name="conjugalAteneo">{{Cite book|last=Mijares |first=Primitivo|title=The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos|date=2017|publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press|isbn=9789715508117|oclc=1020636692}}</ref>

In December 1938, Ferdinand Marcos, his father Mariano, and his uncles, Pio Marcos and Quirino Lizardo were both accused of murder.<ref name="mijares237">{{Harvp|Mijares|1976|p=237}}.</ref> According to two witnesses, the four had conspired to assassinate Nalundasan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chanrobles.com/cralaw19391.htm|title=Chan Robles Virtual Law Library: Philippine Supreme Court Decisions On-Line|website=chanrobles.com|access-date=November 7, 2023|archive-date=October 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015122821/https://chanrobles.com/cralaw19391.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Ferdinand was a member of the University of the Philippines rifle team and a national rifle champion.<ref name="marcosOvercameMurder">{{cite news |last1=Killen |first1=Patrick J. |title=Marcos overcame murder conviction |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/02/02/Marcos-overcame-murder-conviction/7964507704400/ |publisher=[[United Press International]] |date=February 2, 1986 |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=September 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920180659/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/02/02/Marcos-overcame-murder-conviction/7964507704400/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Marcos's rifle was in its gun rack in the [[Reserve Officers' Training Corps (Philippines)|ROTC]] armory, that of team captain [[Teodoro Kalaw#Personal life|Teodoro M. Kalaw Jr.]] was missing.

The [[National Bureau of Investigation (Philippines)|National Bureau of Investigation]] obtained evidence that Kalaw's rifle was the murder weapon. Ferdinand had access to the armory.<ref name="conjugalAteneo" /> Ferdinand and Lizardo were then convicted of the murder. Ferdinand was sentenced to 10 to 17 years in prison.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 11, 1940 |title=Convicted of Murder |pages=5 |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin-convicted-of-murd/12491985/ |access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref>

Marcos appealed to the [[Supreme Court of the Philippines]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marcos overcame murder conviction |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/02/02/Marcos-overcame-murder-conviction/7964507704400/ |access-date=September 21, 2023 |website=UPI Archives |archive-date=September 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920180659/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/02/02/Marcos-overcame-murder-conviction/7964507704400/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Justice [[Jose P. Laurel]], who wrote the majority decision, had almost killed a rival during a youthful brawl. He was convicted by a trial court of frustrated murder, but was acquitted after his own appeal to the Supreme Court. Laurel pleaded for his colleagues to acquit.<ref name="conjugalAteneo" /> The Supreme Court overturned the lower court decision on October 22, 1940, acquitting  both men of all charges except contempt.<ref>Justice Jose P. Laurel penned the ''ponencia'' (in [http://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1940/oct1940/gr_l-47388_1940.html People vs. Mariano Marcos, et al., 70 Phil. 468] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413015754/http://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1940/oct1940/gr_l-47388_1940.html |date=April 13, 2009}}) with which [[Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines|Chief Justice]] [[Ramón Avanceña]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines|Justices]] Imperial, [[Anacleto Díaz|Díaz]] and Horilleno all concurred.</ref><ref name="puppetPresident">{{cite news |last1=Ocampo |first1=Ambeth |title='Puppet president' |url=https://opinion.inquirer.net/87395/puppet-president |publisher=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |date=August 7, 2015 |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182433/https://opinion.inquirer.net/87395/puppet-president |url-status=live}}</ref>