REGULAR CASES
1. Offenses committed by public officers and employees in relation to their office, including those employed in government-owned or controlled corporations, whether simple or complexed with other crimes, where the penalty prescribed by law is imprisonment exceeding six (6) years, or a fine exceeding P4,000.00, when the offender's position carries a salary scale lower than grade 27.
1. All other offenses where the imposable penalty prescribed by law is imprisonment exceeding six (6) years, irrespective of the fine, regardless of other imposable accessory or other penalties, including the civil liability arising from such offense or predicated thereon, irrespective of kind, nature, value or amount thereof.
SPECIAL CASES
1. Libel is punishable by prision correccional in its minimum and maximum periods or fine or both. Libel committed by public officers in relation to their office is within the exclusive original jurisdiction of RTC. This would normally under the exclusive jurisdiction of MTCs. However, by law this was expressly placed under the jurisdiction of the RTCs.
2. Dangerous Drugs cases.
3. Violations of the Intellectual Property Code regardless of the imposable penalty.
Source: Criminal Procedure by Diosdado Peralta, Handbook for Judges
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