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(Eagle News) — The Ombudsman will no longer appeal the Sandiganbayan’s acquittal of Senator Bong Revilla in the 16 graft cases filed against him in relation to the “pork barrel scam.” In a statement released on Thursday, July 8, the Ombudsman said it respects the first division’s decision granting Revilla’s demurrer to evidence with a vote of 3-2. The Ombudsman said the move to no longer appeal was consistent with Ombudsman Samuel Martires’ policy of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump on Saturday despite voting to acquit the former president on an impeachment charge, saying he was responsible for the January 6 mob assault on the US Capitol. “There’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said in a speech following the vote that […]
by Chris Lefkow and Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday on charges of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol, after a majority of Senate Republicans closed ranks and refused to punish the former president in his historic second impeachment trial. The five-day trial saw Democratic prosecutors argue — bolstered by dramatic video of the January 6 riot — that Trump betrayed his oath by […]
(Eagle News) — Seven Filipino seafarers who were accused of attempting to smuggle six million liters of fuel in Libya have been acquitted. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Arthur Soria Taleno, master; Fulgencio Pederito Eulogio, first officer; Claro Camintay Allera, second officer; Abraham Senara Naduma Jr., third officer; Ronnie Lumales Moniya, chief engineer; Gil Dellupac Cruzada, second engineer; and Aldwin Salang-oy Emperada, third engineer; of the M/T L:evante were ordered released […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has acquitted former Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief Diomedio Villanueva of graft. In acquitting Villanueva, the First Division said the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he committed the offense when he, as postmaster general at the Philippine Postal Corp., supposedly refunded PhilPost USA, a private company $1,031,936.04 or P53,043,834.52. The amount supposedly represented “Terminal Dues paid for mail matters sent to Royal Mail (UK post office).” […]
(Eagle News) — It appears the prosecution will no longer appeal the Sandiganbayan’s acquittal of former Senator Bong Revilla for plunder. Ombudsman Samuel Martires himself said “it is an elementary doctrine in law that you cannot appeal a judgment of acquittal.” “It is not just a policy,” Martires said, noting that the “doctrine” has “its roots in Roman law that an ‘issue once decided cannot be tried again’.” It “is based on double jeopardy or the […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has acquitted a man convicted of selling shabu after it found the police who had arrested him had violated the chain of custody of illegal drugs as required by the law. In acquitting Federico Señeres. Jr., and therefore reversing an earlier Court of Appeals decision that affirmed a Taguig court ruling, the third division said the policemen who arrested him in 2011 failed to comply with the original provision of Section 21 […]
by Patrick Lee Agence France-Presse SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) — An Australian grandmother who said she was tricked into carrying drugs into Malaysia after falling for an online romance scam was Wednesday cleared of trafficking, a crime punishable by death. Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto wept and hugged her son after being found not guilty of smuggling crystal methamphetamine, a rare outcome in a country where hundreds of people have been sentenced to death for drugs […]
