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(Eagle News) — The Palace on Monday, Aug. 20, defended the police’s arrest of three lawyers in a Makati bar raid for alleged obstruction of justice and intimidation. According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, a lawyer himself, lawyers Lenie Rocel Rocha, Jan Vincent Soliven, and Romulo Bernard Alarkon needed a refresher course in criminal law. In the first place, he said “lawyers have absolutely no involvement in an ongoing police investigation.” “Their role is when […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Human Rights has initiated a probe into the arrest of three lawyers for alleged obstruction of justice and intimidation during an inspection of a bar in Makati on Thursday, Aug. 16, In a radio interview on Saturday, Aug. 18, CHR spokesperson Jacqueline de Guia said the inquiry into the arrest of Lenie Rocel Rocha, 25; Jan Vicente Sambrano, 32; and Romulo Bernardo Alarkon, 33; during a police inspection of […]
(Eagle News)–The three lawyers who were nabbed for “intimidation” and “obstruction of justice” in a Makati bar have been released pending “further investigation.” Makati Senior Assistant Prosecutor ordered the release of Lenie Rocel Rocha, Jan Vincent Soliven, and Romulo Bernard Alarkon, saying there was a need to determine what acts the three supposedly committed, especially as pertaining to the constructive possession of illegal drugs charge the police filed against them. Apart from this charge, the […]
(Eagle News) — The Public Attorneys Office on Tuesday, April 24, filed an obstruction complaint against Health Secretary Francisco Duque III after it supposedly discovered that the organs of children who were re-autopsied by PAO had been damaged after their Department of Health autopsies. The charges filed before the Department of Justice came after criminal charges for violation of the Anti-Torture Law and for reckless imprudence resulting in homicide were filed against Duque and several […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Friday decried what he said was the refusal of Risa Hontiveros’ camp and the Rise Up for Life and for Rights to allow investigators to interview alleged witnesses into the killings of Carl Angelo Arnaiz, Kian Loyd delos Santos, and Reynaldo de Guzman, an act an anti-crime group has said was already tantamount to “obstruction of justice.” Aguirre said for instance, the investigators looking into the killing of Delos […]
