SC should have fired DOJ Chief and The Prosecutors
Pathetic indeed how the injustice department dispense their brand of justice offering nothing concrete for their appeal but sound bytes to justify an unreasonable position. It was clear coming from the justices that the prosecutors should be prosecuted instead of the party list lawmakers Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza, Joel Virador, Teodoro Casino, Rafael Mariano, together with civilians Vicente Ladlad, Nathaniel Santiago, Randall Echanis and Ray Claro Casambre for conducting an investigation fraught with irregularities trivializing the process. Dangerous precedent straight from the mouth of the persecutor errr Solicitor Corporal errr General Agnes Devanadera with her imagined far reaching adverse consequences that may find the Supreme Court clogged with cases. As much as I want to agree with her “fears” on the Supreme Court getting swamped with appeals of this nature it is more of DOJ’s conduct that will cause it not because of how the SC decided the appeal. First of all had they conducted the investigation in a fair and impartial manner they would not have looked like they don’t know what the heck they are doing which I am inclined to think don't or probably pure arrogance.
Detaining Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran for rebellion despite insufficient evidence to indict just showed how the DOJ mishandled the case with the High Tribunal pointing it out for the distinguishable persecutors of the DOJ. These “authorities” are really out of it and truly drunk with power, just look at the picture on how the guard on the background was paying more attention to who Beltran is voting instead of looking around to secure his prisoner. Now that really shows where the “authorities” priorities like a fishmonger wife poking their noses on all the wrong places where they have no business.
These hoodlums errr DOJ should learn to respect the Supreme Court, after all this is the Supreme Court and DOJ as much as they want to egoistically think they are special and above even the SC should abide and respect the decision penned by Justice Carpio, to quote the Inquirer:
The obvious involvement of political considerations in the actuations of respondent Secretary of Justice and respondent prosecutors brings to mind an observation we made in another equally politically charged case.
How embarrassing could that be but knowing SiRaulO, Gonzales it comes as no surprise that they will show defiance and lack of respect for the Supreme Courts’ decision. In reference to an earlier case involving graft charges against an opposition politician, the court said:
We reiterate what we stated then if only to emphasize the importance of maintaining the integrity of criminal prosecutions in general and preliminary investigations in particular, thus:
We cannot emphasize too strongly that prosecutors should not allow, and should avoid, giving the impression that their noble office is being used or prostituted ... for political ends or other purposes alien to, or subversive of, the basic and fundamental objective of serving the interest of justice evenhandedly, without fear or favor to any all litigants alike, whether rich or poor, weak or strong, powerless or mighty.
Only by strict adherence to procedure may public perception of the impartiality of the prosecutor be enhanced, it added.
DoJ Prosecutors Emmanuel Velasco, Joselita Mendoza, Aileen Marie Gutierrez, Irwin Maraya, and Merba Waga gets “honorable” mention from the High Tribunal for entertaining an unsubscribe letters of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) as a valid form of complaint contrary to Rule 112 of the Revised Rules on Criminal Procedure. These persecutors errr prosecutors should just resign and banish themselves but having a boss like Gonzales and his lady boss that would be farthest or will even cross their mind.
Presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye parroting a twisted spin only a dense individual can harp on as if they were the victims with his "Time-honored and well-established principles on criminal law and procedure were seemingly trampled upon” truly is one for the books. What in the name of Lady Madaya is this guy yapping about? So now it was the Supreme Court that broke the law and his so-called time honored and well-established “principles” on criminal law and practice? It was your buddies at DOJ that broke the law and instead of firing these incompetent persecutors they are now desperately mudslinging the SC.
Is it a surprise that they react in this manner? Absolutely not because lazy authoritarians would rather take a short cut since they can get away with it but thanks to the SC the last bastion of justice still prevails. They are seemingly worried with the decision particularly on Beltran’s case wherein the SC has once again declared that mere membership (which was not also proven) to the Communist Party does not constitute rebellion. It is these mindsets of ignorant fools who believes and think that mere membership to an outlawed party gives them the license to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate “suspects” or worse summarily executed.
This is the same argument and justification that Gen. Holganza put forward in the cold blooded murder of nine year old Grecil Gelacio, a “rebel” and her father a “suspected communist”…………….. If this is the time honored and well-established principles of criminal law and practice Bunye is harping about then it will never be an ending vicious cycle of violence forever putting marginalized people oppressed and at risk.
Crispin Beltran and family plans to sue the government for moral damages and if the court will allow awarding of monetary damages on his illegal detention to the tune of One MIllion Peso for every month he was incarcerated. Likewise the rest of his "co-accused" are planning to take legal action as well but has not decided if they will file the complaint separately or collectively. Satur Ocampo believes that they have a legal basis to sue at least DOJ Chief Gonzales and other likely cabinet officials such as Norberto Gonzales for filing bogus cases to harass and caused them undue anxiety. Rosario Beltran wife of Ka Bel wished Gonzales fired for sowing disorder and hoping that the DOJ chief resign for "delicadeza".
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clearly, the brownnoser in Devanadera shows. In bare futility, she's trying to save face. Jurisprudence is jurisprudence. And for her to say that SC's recent ruling is a bad precedent is taken purely on her musings as a minion of the infamous secretary of injustice. fyi, solgen devanadera, please read Tatad vs. Sandiganbayan, and please if you haven't cleaned your ears yet, the infamous secretary was caught saying that probable cause even if not yet established should be overriden (by what?) obviously because of his ulterior motives, again. The SC is but castrating the secretary of misinterpreting that because he's the head of the justice department he can already take (err) justice, in his own hands, and blatantly, according to his whims & caprices. There's one word for you dearest solgen : sycophant.
They just don't get it do they? Now that their boss siRaulO Gonzales has conceded and has expressed his desire to let it go..... they should just shut their trap together with those maniacs by the Pasig River with their lunatic interpretation of practice and procedure when the SC already spelled it out for them.
Hopefully the other maniacs in the countryside abusing the poor people with their gestapo style dispensation of justice are paying attention. They are subjected to legal and extra judicial abuse worse than what Ka bel & company experienced and no one really notice or pay attention to their plight.
Maniacs they are. I have this first-hand experience of how MTC judges grapple with every opportunity of making money out of every case they handle. Ours, is a an agrarian case, and the putrid judge who handled it patently defined and created the rules by way of auction price. . .and so the case remained a case till it was dismissed frivolously. I can say that there's no sense of justice in the countryside. The justice system in the peripheries is just as corrupt as that in the national level. It's so dementing to think of change; of battling or at the least stirring the current status quo. . .
Raul was once suspended for being ignorant of the law, I suppose disbarment is now in order. He had made so many blunders and this is the only way to bring him back to reality.
I agree with schumey. These lawyers should be disbarred, if possible, to prevent them from committing the same deliberate mistake.
They have practically violated the lawyer's oath, that is, to do no falsehood nor wittingly or unwittingly promote any groundless suit.
30K Fishes/Mschumey07/the bystander,
This has been going on even before the time of this cheating errr seating president yes, disbarment should be the next move.
It's the sick mindset of literally persecuting people who does not conform to their own thus they see nothing wrong with their illegal and malicious intent to suppress those they consider their political enemies.
It's the very same ignorant mindset why in this day and age we still have political disappearance, torture, & extra judicial killings.
Disbarment should be in order to send a strong message that this kind mafiosi mentality has no place in the judicial system.
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