JINGGOY ACQUITTAL

Impt to note that while both Sen. Jinggoy Estrada and Janet Lim Napoles were acquitted of plunder over PDAF scam, they were also convicted of lesser crimes.

Estrada - 12 yrs, 8 mos - 16 yrs, 5 mos, 10 days
Napoles - 44 yrs, 8 mos - 62 yrs, 10 mos, 20 days



Estrada:
1 count of direct bribery (8 yrs - 9 yrs, 4 mos)
2 counts indirect bribery (2 yrs, 4 mos - 3 yrs, 6 months, 20 days EACH count)
fined P3M
suspended from public office
perpetual special disqualification from voting

Totoo bang na-EDSA-pwera ang taumbayan dahil sa 1987 Constitution?

Hindi nga ba patas ang Saligang Batas?

Let’s examine the claims in the ad calling for Charter change. CLAIM: Sa 1987 Constitution, natigil ang asenso natin. (Visuals: Global investors not allowed)

CLAIM: Malusog na ekonomiya daw para sa lahat! Pero pangako nahinto. Monopolya ang naghari. Land ownership ng foreign investors, Edsa-pwera.

Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) has come out with Revised Guidelines for Filipino passengers traveling overseas.

Basic travel docs required:
-passport (valid for 6 mos from departure)
-visa
-boarding pass
-confirmed round trip ticket, when necessary Additional requirements are needed depending on who's traveling.

Self-funded tourists need to show financial capacity and proof of employment.

Affidavits of support are needed if the travel is being sponsored by relatives/non-relative/entity abroad.

JUST IN: The Supreme Court has changed the interpretation on the rule on Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth:
Before any public official/employee could be liable for errors, omissions or non-filing of SALNs, they must be given the chance to correct them. The Supreme Court made the "clarification" on the SALN rule in setting aside the dismissal for dishonesty of a tax specialist from the Dept of Finance who was accused of concealing millions worth of real properties, motor vehicles, business interests and loans.

SC vs PAO CHIEF:

Bakit dalawang beses nang pinagpapaliwanag ng Korte Suprema si Public Attorney's Office (PAO) chief Persida Acosta kung bakit hindi siya dapat i-disiplina ng Korte?

Ano'ng meron? Simplehan natin. Naglabas ang Korte Suprema ng Code of Professional Responsibility and Accountability na gabay sa tamang asal ng mga abogado.

Kabilang sa mga probisyon nito ay kung paano maiiwasan ng isang abogado ang magkasalungat na interes (conflict of interest).

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Remember Efren Morillo? The "drug suspect" who played dead and lived to refute the nanlaban narrative.

A QC court acquitted of him of direct assault.

Now, the admin and crim raps he filed vs cops have been dismissed by the Ombudsman.

CenterLaw says this justifies ICC coming in

https://twitter.com/CenterLawPH/status/1681967189220532224

Why was Morillo's murder complaint dismissed?

Ombudsman said police were conducting legitimate anti-illegal drug operation which, unfortunately, resulted in deaths. It added, cops were in fulfillment of a duty, a justifying circumstance where there is no criminal liability.

Supreme Court suspends for 2 yrs a senior partner in a law firm for sexually harassing a junior associate.

Acts included "dirty jokes, innuendos, inappropriate personal intimate questions about her romantic relationships" and sharing extramarital sexual conquests. According to the SC press briefer, the senior partner also made actual sexual advances on the junior associate, even to the point of confessing that "he would have fallen for her had they been within the same age-range."

SC has not disclosed the names of the lawyers.

LOOK: PICC is all set for the oath taking of almost 4,000 new lawyers this morning.

Supreme Court justices will hold a special en banc session just for the oath taking.

Signing of the Roll of Attorneys to follow. LOOK: Fourteen Supreme Court magistrates are present in today’s oath taking of new lawyers, including Bar Exams 2022 chair, Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa.

Another case of a suspect left for dead after being shot by a cop but who managed to survive.

Roger Herrero stayed for 3 mos in a hospital, later detained for robbery. His case was then dismissed.

Now 4 cops are convicted of attempted murder, ordered to pay P1.6M in damages.

https://twitter.com/ANCALERTS/status/1652880982343598082

Credit to @eacayan and the Nightcrawlers for shedding light on this story from the onset.

More details from Ezra's tweets:

https://twitter.com/eacayan/status/1651949816774279168?s=20

NOW: 1Sambayan holds online forum on the Maharlika Investment Fund bill.

Present are ex-SAJ Antonio Carpio, ex-COA Commissioner Heidi Mendoza, labor leader Atty. Sonny Matula, ACT NCR union president Ruby Bernardo, and ex-BSP deputy governor Diwa Guinigundo. ACT NCR union president Ruby Bernardo likens Maharlika Investment Fund to a "sugal" or a gamble.

Labor leader Atty. Sonny Matula says House lawmakers did not thoroughly study the bill. It was passed a few weeks after it was filed.

NOW: Supreme Court justices led by Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo hold a year-ender press briefing.

He is joined by SAJ Marvic Leonen and Justices Japar Dimaampao and Jose Midas Marquez.

The last SC Justices’ press briefing was in June 2021. EARLIER: CJ Gesmundo clarified that his earlier remark, which supposedly said that the Supreme Court can revisit the Marcos estate tax ruling which had long become final, did not specifically refer to Marcos estate tax issue but on finality of judgments in general.

HOSTAGE TAKING INSIDE PNP CUSTODIAL CENTER

Former senator Leila de Lima was held hostage by an inmate inside the PNP Custodial Center this morning, according to the PNP. But she is now safe.

Hostage taker and 2 inmates dead; 1 policeman, 1 inmate wounded.

https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1578921732337209344

FULL STORY:

3 detainees in PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame, Quezon City were killed Sunday morning after policemen foiled their plan to escape and one of them briefly held hostage former Sen. Leila De Lima, police said.

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A Zamboanga court has convicted a retired judge of murder for ordering 2019 killing of another judge within the court compound.

Court found retired Judge Oscar Tomarong paid hired killers P200k to kill Judge Reymar Lacaya because “napuno na ko.”

📸 Dynah Diestro Tomarong was sentenced to up to 40 yrs jail time and ordered to pay P9.5M in damages, civil indemnity to Judge Lacaya’s heirs.

An accessory, Roger Saldia, got up to 8 yrs for hiding an accused and ordered to pay P1M.

Another accused, 2 hired killers still at large.

Another journalist attacked in Iloilo City this Friday morning, according to NUJP.

Four masked men attacked broadcaster, radio blocktime host Flo Hervias just outside RMN Iloilo's DYRI station. He was injured in the mouth and near his eyes.

https://twitter.com/nujp/status/1578280359476633600

NUJP Iloilo condemns attack on Hervias.
"The daylight attack against Hervias, right in front of the radio station, shows how assaults against Filipino media workers have become more brazen."

Urges PNP to arrest assailants; colleagues to stand together to defend press freedom.

JUST IN: QC police arrest ex-VP candidate Walden Bello in his house in Quezon City at around 4 this afternoon, according to his staff Leomar Doctolero. This is in connection with the cyber libel case filed by former Davao City info officer Jefry Tupas. Tupas filed the cyber libel case against Bello in March this year after the then-VP candidate accused Tupas of being a drug dealer and of being involved in a drug raid in a TV interview.
Tupas denied both allegations.
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DUTERTE'S DEADLY LEGACY AND THE DESPERATE PLEAS FOR JUSTICE

In August 2016, this video of a police drug operation went viral.

A drug suspect pursued by police officers could be heard pleading: “Ito po, ito po, susuko na po (I’m going to surrender)."

Then gunfire.

📹sourced By the end of the video, pedicab driver Eric Sison, 22, is dead -- yet another casualty at the start of a drug war that would claim thousands of lives.

With 14 gunshot wounds, many described the killing as "overkill." Probes were launched.

But when attention waned, what now?

Justice Dept issues new rule on appeals in cases decided by prosecutors under the National Prosecution Service, which “streamlines” appeal process and creates the Prosecution Integrity Board to assess conduct of probe and appeals by prosecutors and Prosecutor General. Under new DOJ rule, appeal for cases cognizable by metropolitan/municipal trial courts stops at reg’l state prosecs for regions) and Prosec General (for NCR). No appeals to SOJ but SOJ may step in in interest of justice, afford fair play and prevent miscarriage of justice.

DOJ says Atty Raphael “Popo” Lotilla can take on Energy secretary post because an “independent director” is not an “officer” of an energy company prohibited by DOE law from becoming DOE secretary within 2 years. Says “independent director” was not contemplated by RA 7638. Sec. 8 of RA 7638: No officer, external auditor, accountant, or legal counsel of any private company or enterprise primarily engaged in the energy industry shall be eligible for appointment as Secretary within two (2) years from his retirement, resignation, or separation...

JUST IN: A Quezon City court has denied Bulatlat’s plea for TRO against the NTC order blocking websites after the court was able to access the website on its computer, according to lawyers of Bulatlat and ex-NSA Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. Bulatlat’s managing editor Ronalyn Olea shows Bulatlat.com is still inaccessible on her phone.

But Judge Dolly Rose Bolante-Prado of QC RTC Branch 36 was able to access it on her phone. She denied the TRO request on the ground that it is not urgent.

JUST IN: Prosecutor General Benedicto Malcontento says Mandaluyong prosecutors have filed yesterday a request to issue an Immigration Lookout Bulletin Order vs owner of the SUV that ran over a security guard in Mandaluyong. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra to decide. It is the DOJ that issues an immigration lookout bulletin order (ILBO) which requires immigration officials to inform the Justice Secretary if the subject of an ILBO intends to leave the country through international airports and seaports.

A Davao court has junked, due to lack of evidence, 2 counts of child abuse charges vs 6 administrators of the United Church of Christ in PH Haran Center in Davao City over the death of 2 Lumad children.

Davao City RTC Br. 12 granted accused’s demurrer to evidence. The UCCP Haran Center has been providing shelter to Lumads.

Court says prosecution failed to show center admins were responsible for the conditions that led to the deaths as there were even attempts to provide medical attention and there’s no evidence of ill motive.