[1] According to court records, Roland John Chapman, Maureen Hultman, and another friend, Jussi Olavi Leino, were coming home from a party at around three o'clock in the morning of 13 July 1991.
Leino survived and Hultman died two months later in hospital due to brain hemorrhages caused by the bullet fragments.
The witnesses were Domingo Florence and Agripino Cadenas, private security guards, and Vincent Mangubat, a driver, all three being employees of residents of the village.
"Bobbins" or Claudio Jr. started serving the sentence on 24 June 1991, by virtue of his preventive detention at the Makati city jail, and then, at New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa since 16 January 1993.
On the civil aspect, the trial Court approved the 19 November 1999 settlement signed by the Hultman family and the Teehankees, on 10 January 2000.
Formal notices of the application were published in the newspapers, inter alia, to all parties concerned, on 28 January and 6 February 2004 with no oppositions filed.
[9] On 6 October 2008, Raul M. Gonzalez confirmed Claudio Teehankee Jr.'s release from prison by virtue of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo' commutation of sentence: "Everything went by the rules here.
"[11][12] On 15 October 2008, attorney Ernesto Francisco, for Maureen Hultman, Roland John Chapman, and Jussi Olavi Leino, filed a 62-page certiorari petition with the Supreme Court of the Philippines against the Department of Justice (Philippines) and the Board of Pardons and Parole, to nullify Teehankee's granted executive clemency, commutation of sentence and release from detention.
[13] Secretary Raul M. Gonzalez earlier stated that the clemency has already "taken effect and it can't be taken back unless there was fraud ... mathematical error and misapplication of rules.