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By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service There is no warrant for the arrest of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for coup d’etat just yet. This was after the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 148 set for hearing on Oct. 5, at 9 a.m., the Department of Justice’s urgent ex-parte omnibus motion seeking for the same and a hold departure order against the senator for his alleged participation in the Peninsula Manila incident in 2007 instead. Earlier, […]
(Eagle News)–Solicitor General Jose Calida on Thursday, Sept. 27, threatened to file charges against Senator Antonio Trillanes after the senator accused him of stealing his amnesty application document. In a statement, Calida said he would be “constrained to file a criminal case for libel plus damages” against the senator unless he “expresses his sincere apology for calling me a thief.” “Obviously, Mr. Trillanes’ rationality (assuming he had one) has deserted him,” Calida said, calling the […]
(Eagle News)—Solicitor General Jose Calida on Tuesday, Sept. 25, welcomed the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150’s upholding of Proclamation No. 572 that declared the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV as void ab initio, and the court’s subsequent issuance of a .warrant of arrest and hold departure order against the senator. Calida reportedly had a hand in the review of the amnesty granted to Trillanes by the government of then-President Benigno Aquino III. […]
(Eagle News) — Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 Judge Elmo Alameda believes Proclamation No. 572 that declared the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV void ab initio is “sufficient and legal.” In his 22-page resolution that granted the Department of Justice’s motion for the issuance of an alias warrant and a hold departure order against Trillanes, Alameda said the certification issued by the military that said there was no available copy of the […]
By Vic Somintac Eagle News Service “Let us stop the drama by presscon and allow the legal process to take its course.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had this to say after the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 ordered Senator Antonio Trillanes IV arrested and for a hold departure order to be issued against him. According to Roque, the court after all “has spoken.” “As the President has said, we will respect the decision of […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV yielded to police on Tuesday, Sept. 25, after a Makati court ordered him arrested, and ordered for a hold departure order to be issued against him. Below is a slideshow of the senator’s mugshots, as provided by the National Capital Region Police Office. With a report from Mar Gabriel
(Eagle News) — “Face the music and dance.” Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo had this to say to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, following a Makati court’s order to have him arrested, and to have a hold departure order issued against him. “The order is anchored on solid legal ground. Trillanes should face the music and dance as Frank Sinatra would croon in his song with the same title,” Panelo said in a statement. According to […]
Senator says he will post P200,000 bail today (Eagle News) — “Officially, wala na tayong demokrasya.” This was the reaction of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, following a Makati court’s order to have him arrested and have a hold departure order issued against him on Tuesday, Sept. 25. Judge Elmo Alameda of the Makati RTC Branch 150, where Trillanes was charged with rebellion, set bail for the senator at P200,000. Trillanes said he would post bail […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday, Sept. 25, said Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 essentially recognized that the rebellion case against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was “still very much alive.” Guevarra issued the brief statement after Judge Elmo Alameda ordered the arrest of Trillanes, essentially granting the DOJ’s very urgent motion that also sought for a hold departure order against the senator. The motion–which was also filed before the Makati RTC […]
(Eagle News) — The materials presented by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to the court as supposed proof he complied with the requirements for an amnesty are only “self-serving” and “deserve scant consideration,” the Department of Justice said. In a reply-affidavit filed before the Makati Regional Trial Court’s Branch 150, the DOJ said in the first place, the application form the senator was holding up in a picture published by a newspaper on Jan. 5, 2011 “did […]
(Eagle News)– Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte on Wednesday, Sept. 19, filed two new libel cases against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The cases filed before the Davao Prosecutors’ Office stem from Trillanes’ allegations in media the presidential son was involved in the P6.4-billion shabu shipment. Rainer Madrid, Duterte’s lawyer, said Trillanes had called his client a drug lord in an interview over radio dzmm on June 6 and over CNN Philippines on June 14. […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Tuesday, Sept. 18, said the conviction of retired Army Major General Jovito Palparan and his two co-accused in the disappearance of two University of the Philippines students should “serve as a lesson” to security forces. “Binigyan sila ng kapangyarihan para proteksyunan ‘yung mga citizens ng ating bansa at habulin ang mga dapat habulin—‘yung mga enemies of the state so hindi natin ito dapat abusuhin,” he said. He […]
