Because of the defense’s stance that two of the alleged killers of Eva Mae Peligro and her cousin Gwendolyn Balasta may not be in their proper state of mind due to drugs, prosecutors yesterday asked the court for a reverse trial, where the defense presents its evidence before the prosecution.However, the lawyer of accused Richard Gudelosao and Joseph Cellar first wanted his clients subjected to a psychological test. The result of the test would dictate the defense’s next course of action. Lawyer Salvador Solima said that based on the test, Gudelosao and Cellar might agree to a reverse trial, or even change their plea to ‘guilty.’ “We might plead guilty anytime depending on the legal capacity of the accused,” said Solima during the case’s pre-trial yesterday morning. Gudelosao and Cellar earlier filed a motion for psychiatric examination, but the prosecution opposed this. Regional Trial Court Judge Generosa Labra, who is handling the case, was yet to decide on the motion. Talisay City Prosecutor Marshal Rubia, in his comment on the motion for psychiatric examination, said Gudelosao and Cellar were in their proper states of mind because they gave “clear and categorical” details on how the murder was done when the two admitted their involvement in the crime in the Talisay City Prosecutor’s Office on July 28. Rubia said that neither accused said in their sworn affidavits that they were under the influence of drugs. Rubia said that if Solima’s claim was true, the case against Gudelosao and Cellar may even worsen. A psychiatric examination would delay the court proceedings, Rubia said. The defense, however, denied the existence of the written extra-judicial confessions of Gudelosao and Cellar. “As far as we are concern, those are non-existent,” Solima said. Meanwhile, the third accused in the crime, Gudelosao’s girlfriend Jean Antonette Medalle, stuck to her claim that she had no knowledge of the crime, since she was at her parents’ house in Lahug when the incident happened in Azienda Ferinza, barangay Lawaan, Talisay City, on July 24. “We have no knowledge of the crime,” said Richard Bauson, Medalle’s counsel. Victims Peligro and Balasta were murdered in their home. According to the signed affidavits of Gudelosao and Cellar, they and Medalle killed Peligro because Gudelosao was jealous that she was put in charge of the money that their family members in the United States sent them. Balasta was killed because she saw Peligro murdered. Gudelosao and Cellar said they sliced up the two women’s bodies, placed them in trash bags, and disposed of these in different locations in Talisay City, Naga City, and the town of Minglanilla. | 
