Tag: state witness

CA rejects suspect’s plea for fellow cop to be stopped from testifying on Jee Ick Joo slay

(Eagle News) — The Court of Appeals has rejected the plea of a primary suspect in the killing of South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo for his fellow policeman to be stopped from testifying in court. In junking SP03 Ricky Sta. Isabel’s plea for a temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction on a Pampanga court’s order allowing SP04 Roy Villegas to be discharged as state witness, the 13th Division said he failed to “sufficiently […]

Senator Lacson says Solano wasted chance to become state witness

(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday expressed regret that John Paul Solano wasted the opportunity to become a state witness in the hazing death of University of Sto. Tomas law student Horacio “Atio” Castillo III Lacson, the chair of the Senate Committee on Public Order said that, Solano, being the least guilty,  could have qualified as state witness. But Lacson noted that Solano, a former medical technology student of UST, instead chose to cover […]