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(Eagle News)–Another judge has inhibited herself from hearing the criminal cases in connection with the 2016 kidnapping and murder of Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo. With her inhibition from the kidnapping for ransom with homicide, kidnapping and serious illegal detention, and carnapping cases against Supt. Rafael Dumlao, Police Chief Master Sergeant Ricky Sta. Isabel and Jerry Omlang, Judge Irin Zenaida Buan of the Angeles City Regional Trial Court Branch 56 became the second judge to […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Wednesday, Sept. 4, said the fact that he did not recommend former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez for executive clemency meant he had distanced himself from the issue. Panelo, Sanchez’s former counsel, said in an interview over CNN Philippines that Sanchez also failed to secure a recommendation from President Rodrigo Duterte and from Senator Bong Go despite a letter of request for the same from the former mayor’s daughter, […]
Moira Encina Eagle News Service Naghain ng motion to inhibit sa Department of Justice ang ilang magulang ng mga batang namatay matapos mabakunahan ng Dengvaxia laban kay Acting Prosecutor General Richard Anthony Fadullon. Pinag-iinhibit ng mga pamilya ng mga sinasabing biktima ng Dengvaxia si Fadullon matapos nitong aprubahan ang inamyendahang kaso sa korte kung saan ginawa na lamang isang count ng kasong reckless imprudence resulting in homicide ang kaso ng dalawang batang namatay diumano dahil […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Franklin Drilon on Tuesday, Aug. 28, urged newly-appointed Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro to inhibit herself from “politically charged cases” brought before the Supreme Court. In a statement, he said this was “to uphold the integrity of the decision that the Supreme Court may make during her short tenure.” “All questions, issues, and doubts surrounding (her) appointment…, particularly with regard to her impartiality, can only be addressed if the newly-appointed chief […]
(Eagle News)–Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has asked the Supreme Court to order Associate Justice Samuel Martires to inhibit from the quo warranto petition filed against her. According to Sereno, this was because Martires exhibited “actual bias.” Proof of this, he said, were Martires’ comments about during the oral arguments set for the petition. “With due respect, it appears that Justice Martires has formed an opinion on the competence of respondent (Sereno) to serve as […]
(Eagle News)–“I will never forgive you.” Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno said this was what Associate Justice Teresita de Castro told her when she accepted the top magistrate post in 2012. Speaking before an event organized by the Movement Against Tyranny, Sereno said De Castro, her senior who applied for the same position, even told her that “You should not even have applied in the first place.” According to Sereno, when she tried to mend her […]
