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(Eagle News)–Sacked Bureau of Corrections Director-General Nicanor Faeldon has “no hard feelings” for President Rodrigo Duterte. This is according to his lawyer, Jose Diño, who accompanied the former Marine at the Senate where he attended the third hearing on the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Thursday, Sept. 5. Faeldon refused to speak to the media at that time. “Ganun ang Marino. They follow orders. No hard feelings. Tinatanggap mo yun,” Diño said. He noted […]
(Eagle News)–Nicanor Faeldon surfaced at the Senate on Thursday, Sept. 5, a day after he was sacked by President Rodrigo Duterte as Bureau of Corrections director-general and after his lawyer told senators hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law that the former Marine had begged off from attending the same. When asked by reporters, Jose Diño, Faeldon’s lawyer, said his client was “insistent” on attending the hearing, where Senate President Tito Sotto’s “A1” intel report […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to re-arrest the 1700 convicts who were released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law is based on jurisprudence, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said. Guevarra in particular noted People of the Philippines vs. Fidel Tan, and City Warden of the Manila City Jail vs. Raymond S. Estrella, where the Supreme Court ordered the re-arrest of inmates after the GCTA credited to them were found to be “invalid.” In the first […]
Senators oblige (Eagle News)–Nicanor Faeldon has begged off from attending the third hearing into the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte sacked him from his post of director-general at the Bureau of Corrections. Senator Richard Gordon, blue ribbon and justice committee chair, said he received a text on this from Faeldon’s lawyer. “Tinanong ko ang mga kapwa ko senador. Importante na makarating siya pero ang present attitude namin is medyo […]
(Eagle News)– The Department of the Interior and Local Government wants the 1700 convicts released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance to be placed on the Immigration watchlist. Interior Spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said the DILG will request the Department of Justice for this. He said Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has also ordered the Philippine National Police to form tracker teams to locate the convicts. Año, Malaya said, has urged the convicts to surrender themselves immediately […]
(Eagle News)–Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde on Thursday, Sept. 5, announced the deployment of tracker teams to locate the 1700 convicts who were released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. Albayalde made the announcement following President Rodrigo Duterte’s order for them to surrender in 15 days or be treated as fugitives. “As fugitives from justice, these convicts can be subjected to warrantless arrest,” Albayalde said. He also directed all police units nationwide to […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, Sept. 4, ordered convicts released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law to surrender within 15 days. The President said if they do not do this and register with the Bureau of Corrections within that span of time, they would be treated as fugitives. “I will give you 15 days, liberty. Provided you make yourself available anytime that you will be called for investigation, to have a recomputation,” Duterte […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, Sept. 4, ordered Bureau of Corrections Director-General Nicanor Faeldon to resign. The President gave the order in a speech in Malacañang. “I am demanding the resignation of Faeldon, immediately,” he said, noting that the BuCor official “disobeyed (his) order.” Asked later if he was firing Faeldon, he said “Yes.” Duterte also ordered over 1000 convicts of heinous crimes released under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law to surrender, and […]
(Eagle News)–Senate President Tito Sotto on Wednesday, Sept. 4, said he received an “A-1” intelligence report “millions” of pesos were being paid for the release of some convicts under the Good Credit Time Allowance Law in the Bureau of Corrections. Sotto did not say who gave him the information, but said the person was very credible. Neither did Sotto say who exactly received the supposed payoffs, only noting that there were go-betweens. He added the […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo believes failure to pay court-ordered damages to the kin of a victim will lengthen the jail time of a convict. Panelo shared his legal opinion in an interview over CNN Philippines on Wednesday, Sept. 4, a day after Elvira Sanchez, wife of former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez, said her family had no intention of paying the P12.67 million in damages to the families of Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez. […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday, Sept. 4, urged her fellow lawmakers not to repeal Republic Act No. 10592 even with the release of convicts of heinous crimes, including those convicted for the rape-slay of the Chiong sisters, under its retroactive application. “Let not the legitimacy and the well-settled wisdom of the law be clouded or demolished by its misapplication, abuses in enforcement or wrongdoings on the part of the designated implementors of the […]
(Eagle News)–The family of Antonio Sanchez will not pay the P12.67 million awarded by the court to the families of Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez, insisting the former Calauan, Laguna mayor was innocent. This was revealed by Elvira Sanchez, the wife of the former mayor who was convicted of killing and raping Sarmenta and of killing her friend Allan Gomez in the 1990s, during the Senate hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law on Tuesday, […]
