Tag: counter-affidavit

Where is “body of evidence?,” Kerwin Espinosa asks in reiterating call for dismissal of drug raps vs him

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa on Tuesday, May 15, reiterated his call for the drug-related charges filed against him to be dismissed. In his response-affidavit submitted before the new Department of Justice panel looking into the cases filed against him and several others, Espinosa said his “admission” he was a drug distributor in a Senate hearing in 2016 should not be used against him because there was no “proverbial corpus […]

Rappler’s Ressa makes appearance at DOJ; submits counter-affidavit to cyber-libel complaint filed vs site

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Rappler’s Chief Executive Officer Maria Ressa made an appearance before the Department of Justice  on Tuesday, April 23, to subscribe to her counter-affidavit in connection with the cyberlibel complaint filed against the news site. Ressa went ahead and did the same even if the preliminary investigation on the case was scheduled on April 25, Wednesday, at 2 p.m. This was because she reportedly would be unable to attend the […]