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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to conduct his own investigation into the release of convicts of under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. Senator Bong Go, Duterte’s former longterm aide, said the President was particularly interested in knowing if there was corruption in their release. A joint Department of Justice and Department of the Interior and Local Government is now looking into the implementing rules and regulations of the GCTA law, which increases the […]
(Eagle News)–Three others convicted for the rape and murder of Aileen Sarmenta and the murder of her friend Allan Gomez in 1993 are already deceased. According to Bureau of Corrections Chief Nicanor Faeldon, who faced the Senate hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Monday, Sept. 2, George Medialdea, Rogelio Corcolon and Zoilo Ama died in prison. Faeldon could not say, however, the cause of their deaths. Apart from Medialdea, Corcolon and Ama, former […]
(Eagle News)–Senate President Tito Sotto believes President Rodrigo Duterte should sack all Bureau of Corrections officials. Sotto issued the statement following a GMA news report BuCor director-general Nicanor Faeldon himself signed the release order of former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez, whose reported possible release under the Good Conduct Time Allowances law or RA 10592 outraged the public. Sanchez was convicted of the killing and rape of Aileen Sarmenta and the killing of her friend […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Richard Gordon is proposing to “improve” Republic Act 10592 that increases the Good Conduct Time Allowances given to inmates. In filing Senate Bill No. 974, Gordon noted there was a need to do this so that the “meritorious principle of the law upon which it is based can be implemented,” and the law can be safeguarded from “abuse of powerful personalities whose years of imprisonment have not changed a bit the crooked and […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra to “hold the processing” of the case of former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez “until all the factual and legal issues have been fully threshed out.” Guevarra himself confirmed this after Senator Bong Go revealed in a television interview that Duterte had ordered Guevarra and Bureau of Corrections director Nicanor Faeldon to refrain from releasing the former mayor, who was convicted of the rape and […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra and Bureau of Corrections Chief Nicanor Faeldon not to release former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez. This is according to the President’s longtime aide and now-Senator Bong Go in an interview over GMA-7 on Monday, Aug. 26. Go said the President was angry following reports Sanchez could be released, after the Supreme Court ruled in June that RA 10592, which increases the Good Conduct Time […]
(Eagle News)–Former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez maintains he is innocent of the crimes he was convicted of, and for which he has been sentenced to seven terms of reclusion perpetua. “Ako’y nakikisimpatiya doon sa mga Gomez at doon sa Sarmenta,” he said in an interview with GMA7, referring to the families of Aileen Sarmenta and her friend Allan Gomez. Sanchez was convicted of the rape-slay of Sarmenta and the killing of Gomez in the […]
(Eagle News)–Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon wants to probe into the status of the bodyguards of ex- Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio who were also convicted in connection with the murder and rape of Aileen Sarmenta and the murder of Allan Gomez in the 1990s. In an interview over radio dwiz,Drilon said the whereabouts and status of the six bodyguards–Baldwin Brion, Luis and Rogelio Corcolon, George Medialdea, Zoilo Ama and Pepito Kawit–should also be looked into, […]
(Eagle News)–Was the “premature, reckless” announcement of the “impending” release of former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Sanchez meant to be “a propaganda blitz to drumbeat support for the death penalty?” This was the question posed by Senator Leila de Lima on Saturday, August 24, a day after the Palace clarified Sanchez, who was convicted of the murder and rape of Aileen Sarmenta, and of the murder of her friend Allan Gomez in the 1990, was not […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of the Interior and Local Government believes former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez is not eligible for early release under Republic Act. No. 10592. In backing the stand of the Department of Justice, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año noted that the law, which increases the Good Conduct Time Allowance given to inmates, is “categorical in excluding recidivists, habitual delinquents, escapees, and persons charged with heinous crimes” from its coverage. Año said Sanchez “inarguably […]
Says law excludes recidivists, habitual delinquents, escapees and persons charged with heinous crimes (Eagle News)–Former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez is not eligible for release under the Good Conduct Time Allowance Law. This was the statement of the Palace, amid public outrage over the possibility the former mayor who was convicted of the murder and rape of Aileen Sarmenta and the murder of her friend Allan Gomez in the 1990s, could be released. This was […]
(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 23, said it merely “applied a fundamental doctrine in criminal law” when it ruled Republic Act 10592, which increased the Good Conduct Time Allowance given to inmates, should be applied retroactively. The SC issued the statement amid outrage over the possible release of former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez following the SC June ruling. Sanchez was convicted of the 1990s rape and murder of Aileen Sarmenta, and of […]
