Category: Crime

Corona impeachment prosecution continues to be out-classed by defense team

January 25, 2012 benign0 38 Comments

Today’s impeachment trial session (evaluating the bid to impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona) seems to have been about the rigour around which the proceedings are being conducted by the senator-judges led by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. One of the more revealing moments of the session was around the way the prosecution called…

Crime, Government, Politics

Anti-Corona Mob laments Cuevas’s brilliant wit and ‘star quality’ of defense team

January 23, 2012February 10, 2014 benign0 77 Comments

Apologists among the mob who have been campaigning for the ouster of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona now seem to be getting really desperate — desperate enough to question the very manner with which Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile is conducting the Senate trial. A certain Floren Hilbay, for example, writing for the Inquirer.net…

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Will Noynoy Aquino incite rebellion if Chief Justice Renato Corona is acquitted?

January 20, 2012January 30, 2012 benign0 109 Comments

Another EDSA ocho-ocho “revolution” in the works? That’s according to House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman who reportedly spoke of knowledge of a plan on the part of the administration of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to incite an uprising if Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona is acquitted in his on-going impeachment trial… â€œI hope…

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Corona impeachment: Prosecution team is incompetent not just underdogs

January 19, 2012March 16, 2017 Ilda 169 Comments

Supreme Court Chief Justice, Renato Corona is richer (only) by eight million pesos according to an ABS-CBN headline report. This is shocking news, indeed. This means that the embattled Chief Justice won’t be able to afford to purchase even just a second hand Porsche similar to the one President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) bought in 2011,…

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Day 3 of Corona impeachment: ABS-CBN lawyer bungles questioning of key prosecution witness

January 19, 2012January 21, 2012 benign0 44 Comments

Key point of contention on Day 3 of the trial of the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Renato Corona is the emergence of allegations that Corona did not declare all of his assets — specifically big properties already revealed to the media — in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN). So now…

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Day 2 of Corona Impeachment: Amazing grace exhibited by defense team

January 18, 2012January 30, 2012 benign0 64 Comments

Perhaps it is as what everyone had suspected all along. Of what looked like volumes of “evidence” of improper conduct on the part of Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona splashed all over the media by the House of Representatives prosecution team (despite repeated warnings from the Senate), it turns out that only a…

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And so starts the circus of Renato Corona’s trial by publicity

January 16, 2012January 16, 2012 benign0 65 Comments

The Philippine media seems to be stepping up a campaign to distort the facts surrounding the impeachment case against Philippine Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice (CJ) Renato Corona. It is evident in the way Michael Lim Ubac wrote on the very first line of his Inquirer.net “report” World Bank: Loan to Supreme Court high risk…

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PNoy supporters pre-judge Corona impeachment trial

January 11, 2012September 15, 2013 Ilda 112 Comments

It seems like most Filipinos either do not know the meaning of “due process” or are simply too impatient to understand and observe it properly. God forbid that one become the subject of an investigation or an impeachment bid in the Philippines. Once the Filipino public gets a hold of any information that can be…

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