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(Eagle News)–A Pasay court has junked Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s bid to quash an inciting to sedition case filed against him. In junking Trillanes’ motion, Pasay City Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 45 Judge Remiebel Mondia ruled the veracity of the senator’s argument his statements in a 2017 speech against President Rodrigo Duterte were not seditious “can only be ascertained in a full-blown trial..” “Kung makikita ‘to ng mga sundalo, M60 machine gun ang gagamitin sa’yo. […]
(Eagle News)–A Manila court has junked the motion to quash the cyber libel charge filed against chief executive officer Maria Ressa and a former Rappler reporter. In junking the motion to quash of Ressa and Reynaldo Santos, Branch 46 Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa ruled the Department of Justice was able to “sufficiently establish” the elements of cyber libel in the Rappler article on businessman Wilfredo Keng which was published in 2012 and edited in 2014. The […]
(Eagle News) — A Muntinlupa court junked on Friday, June 22, Senator Leila de Lima’s motion to quash the case of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading filed by the Department of Justice against her. Boni Tacardon, De Lima’s lawyer, said the Branch 206 judge junked the motion, which was filed after the court allowed the prosecution to amend its original charge of illegal drug trading, on a technicality. Despite the denial, De Lima’s […]
