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WASHINGTON, Aug 3, 2023 (AFP) – Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election and defraud the American people. Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, entered his plea during a nearly 30-minute hearing at the same Washington courthouse where hundreds of his supporters have been convicted for their roles in January 6, 2021 attack on the US […]
(Eagle News) — A Manila regional trial court has deferred the arraignment of the 10 Aegis Juris fraternity members who stand accused of the death of University of Sto. Tomas law student Horacio Castillo III. Branch 20 postponed the arraignment of Mhin Wei Chan, Jose Miguel Salamat, John Robin G. Ramos, Marcelino Bagtang Jr., Arvin A. Balag, Ralph Trangia, Axel Munro Hipe, Oliver Onofre, Joshua Joriel Macabali and Hans Matthew Rodrigo on charges for violation of […]
(Eagle News) — Two Muntinlupa courts have deferred the arraignment of Senator Leila de Lima for drug-related cases. Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 206 Judge Lorna Navarro-Domingo reset the senator’s arraignment to June 22 after her camp filed a motion to quash. The filing came after the court denied her camp’s motion for reconsideration of the court’s decision to allow the prosecution’s amendment of the information filed against De Lima—from illegal drug trading to conspiracy to […]
(Eagle News) — Former President Benigno Aquino III was a no-show in his arraignment over the cases filed against him in connection with the Mamasapano incident in 2015, on Friday. Aquino’s lawyer, Romeo Fernandez, told reporters that he advised his client not to attend, since they were told about the hearing on his client’s motion on short notice. Fernandez was referring to the former president’s motion seeking to dismiss the cases for graft and usurpation of […]
(Eagle News) — The arraignment of Senator Leila de Lima was deferred on Friday after the prosecution moved for the amendment of the charge filed against her. The DOJ asked that the drug trading charge against the senator and her co-accused—former bodyguard Ronnie Dayan; former Bureau of Corrections director Franklin Bucayu; former aides Joenel Sanchez, Wilfredo Elli and Jose Adrian Dera; and convicted drug lord Jaybee Sebastian–filed before the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 206 be […]
(Eagle News) — Not guilty. This was the plea of alleged drug lord Kerwin Espinosa during his arraignment for illegal drug trading at the Manila Regional Trial Court on Friday. “Wala talaga akong kasalanan kasi mga kagagawan ng mga pulis. Lagi nalang nilang ginagawa na magplant ng scenario para lang sa accomplishment nila,” Espinosa told reporters after the arraignment at Branch 26. His case is being heard at the Manila court and not in the […]
(Eagle News) — The Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 205 on Friday rescheduled the arraignment of Senator Leila de Lima and a co-accused in connection with a drug-related case. Judge Amelia Fabros-Cruz reset the arraignment of the senator and Jad Dera to Nov. 24, essentially to give way to new motions filed by De Lima’s camp. Filibon Tacardon, counsel of De Lima, said they filed two–one for the court to reconsider its decision on a […]
(Eagle News) — A Muntinlupa court has postponed the arraignment of Senator Leila de Lima slated on Friday. Judge Amelia Fabros-Corpuz of Branch 205 moved the date of her arraignment in the conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading case to Sept. 15 instead. The arraignment is in connection with the proliferation of illegal drugs in the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary. De Lima faces two other drug cases before Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court […]
(Eagle News) — Nakatakdang basahan ng sakdal sa Sandiganbayan si dating Makati City Mayor Junjun Binay sa Mayo, kaugnay sa kaso nito ukol sa umano’y overpriced na Makati City Parking Building. Ito’y matapos makitaan ng probable cause ng 3rd division ang graft at falsification cases laban sa kaniya. Ang arraignment ay gagawin sa ika-18 ng Mayo, 1:30 ng hapon. Samantala, hindi na nag-isyu ang Sandiganbayan ng arrest warrant laban kay Binay at mga kapwa akusado nito. Matatandaan […]
The arraignment of Janet Lim Napoles and Senator Ramon Revilla is scheduled for today. Here is the update from Eagle News reporter Meanne Corvera.
