Julio Nalundasan was a Filipino

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 politician who was one of the political rivals of Ilocos Norte

Ilocos Norte

Ilocos Norte is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. Its capital is Laoag City and is located at the northwest corner of Luzon Island, bordering Cagayan and Apayao to the east, and Abra and Ilocos Sur to the south...

 politician Mariano Marcos

Mariano Marcos

Mariano Marcos y Rubio was a lawyer and a politician from Ilocos Norte, Philippines. A Congressman from 1925 to 1931, He is best known for being the father of former president Ferdinand Marcos....

, father of Ferdinand Marcos

Ferdinand Marcos

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...

 (who later became the tenth President of the Philippines

President of the Philippines

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).

Nalundasan was slain by a sniper at his home in 1935, the day after beating Marcos for the second time in elections for the office of representative for the second district of Ilocos Norte. Mariano Marcos' son Ferdinand and brother-in-law Quirino Lizardo were indicted and later convicted for the murder. However, the conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of the Philippines

Supreme Court of the Philippines

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, through a decision penned by Associate Justice Jose P. Laurel

Jose P. Laurel

José Paciano Laurel y García was the president of the Republic of the Philippines, a Japanese-sponsored administration during World War II, from 1943 to 1945...

 (who, like Marcos, also became President).

External links

• G.R. No. L-47388 - the Supreme Court
  Supreme Court of the Philippines
  The Supreme Court of the Philippines is the Philippines' highest judicial court, as well as the court of last resort. The court consists of 14 Associate Justices and 1 Chief Justice...
  
  decision reversing Ferdinand Marcos' conviction for murder. Contains an official account of Nalundasan's assassination.