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(Eagle News) — Members of the Ampatuan family who were convicted over the 2009 Maguindanao massacre will file motions for reconsideration of the verdict against them on Thursday, Dec. 19. The lawyers of Zaldy Ampatuan, Andal Ampatuan Jr. made the manifestation in open court, after Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes meted the penalty of imprisonment of reclusion perpetua without parole against them as principals for 57 counts of murder. Also […]
(Eagle News) — Former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao governor Zaldy Ampatuan, who is a primary defendant in the Maguindanao massacre case, has been discharged from the hospital. Reports said the convoy of Ampatuan, who had been confined in the Makati Medical Center, was at present headed for Camp Bagong Diwa, where he was ordered detained by Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes. In ordering Ampatuan’s detention in the Taguig facility […]
(Eagle News) — Zaldy Ampatuan, the principal accused in the 2010 Maguindanao massacre, was ordered by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) on Tuesday to be sent back in jail from the Makati hospital where he is presently recovering from a stroke. The order from Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 came two days before the scheduled promulgation of the decision in the controversial multiple mass murder case. Ampatuan had originally asked […]
(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court has affirmed a Court of Appeals decision upholding a lower court’s refusal to grant bail to former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao governor Datu Zaldy Uy Ampatuan. In denying the petition for review on certiorari of Ampatuan, who faces 58 counts of murder over the Maguindanao massacre, the first division noted the “failure” of Ampatuan to “sufficiently show any reversible error” in the CA decision dated April 18, 2018 and the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte was “dismayed” Zaldy Ampatuan, a primary suspect in the 2009 killing of over 50 people in Maguindanao, was allowed by a court to attend the wedding of his daughter on Tuesday, Aug. 22. “The panel of prosecutors and the President oppose that motion, and we’re dismayed that it was granted,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. He noted, however, that even if the court granted Ampatuan’s furlough bid, it would not […]
(Eagle News) — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday, Aug. 22, defended the prosecutors who have come under fire after a court granted the motion of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao governor Zaldy Ampatuan for him to be allowed to attend his daughter’s wedding. “The prosecution vigorously opposed Zaldy Ampatuan’s motion for a furlough…,” Guevarra said. According to Guevarra, the court, however, granted Ampatuan’s motion “for humanitarian reasons.” On Tuesday, Ampatuan attended his daughter’s wedding […]
(Eagle News) — The Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s denial of the bid of former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao governor Zaldy Ampatuan, a primary accused in the Maguindanao massacre in 2009, to be granted bail. Citing lack of merit, the special eighth division of the appellate court, in a 23-page decision, denied Ampatuan’s petition for certioriari seeking for the annulment and the setting aside of the September 15, 2015 joint order […]
