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(Eagle News)–The Nueva Ecija court hearing the charges filed by Mary Jane Veloso against her alleged recruiters has tentatively set the taking of her testimony against them to December 12. Edre Olalia, National Union of People’s Lawyers president, said, however, that the date was “subject to” the resolution of the motion for reconsideration which alleged recruiters Maria Cristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao plan to file to challenge the Supreme Court decision that allowed Veloso to […]
(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court has allowed Mary Jane Veloso, who is imprisoned for drug trafficking in Indonesia, to testify against her alleged recruiters facing illegal recruitment cases in Nueva Ecija via deposition. In setting aside a December 2017 Court of Appeals ruling that gave due course to the petition for certiorari of alleged recruiters Maria Cristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao, and in affirming with modification the August 16, 2016 resolution of Branch 88 of the […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The parents of Mary Jane Veloso, who is on death row in Indonesia, have asked the Supreme Court to allow for the out-of-court testimony of their daughter against her alleged illegal recruiters, who are facing a case for large-scale illegal recruitment in a Nueva Ecija court. In their petition, Cesar and Celia Veloso asked the High Court to reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals that ruled that allowing […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Court of Appeals has denied the Office of the Solicitor General’s appeal for a Nueva Ecija judge to observe the deposition of Mary Jane Veloso–a death row inmate in Indonesia–against her alleged illegal recruiters who are detained in Nueva Ecija. In junking the OSG’s motion for reconsideration of the former eleventh division’s December 13, 2017 decision, the division reiterated that the right of the accused, in this case Maria […]
