Legal eagles bid to defend Erap in US case Angie M. Rosales 09/21/2010

Legal eagles bid to defend Erap in US case
Angie M. Rosales
09/21/2010

Topnotch lawyers are volunteering to defend former President Joseph Estrada in a $120-million civil suit filed by the daughters of slain publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer before a California court last week against Estrada, fugitive Sen. Panfilo Lacson and five other accused, Estrada’s son, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada said.

The young Estrada ex-pressed confidence that efforts to implicate his father on the kidnapping and killing more than a decade ago of Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, will prove futile.

“There are a lot of topnotch lawyers who are offering their services for free. We are very confident that the case against (former) President Estrada will not prosper,” he told reporters in an interview yesterday.

The senator was reacting on reports on the filing of a $120-million civil suit that Dacer’s daughters had filed at a Northern District court in the State of California.

The former leader described this move as “absurd” adding that the filing of the case was a desperate act on the part of the Dacer siblings to continue to pin him down on the case.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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