Palace vows not to interfere in court verdict on mutineers
10/17/2010The Palace will not interfere in a scheduled court decision on the coup d’état charges filed against former Lt. Senior Grade and now Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and the rest of his fellow Magdalo insurgents to be issued by Makati Regional Trial Court Judge Oscar Pimentel on Oct. 28 even as a noted lawyer said that it would be proper for the court to defer prosecuting cases involving the mutineers in view of President Aquino’s issuance of Proclamation 50 which grants amnesty to them.
Deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte said Aquino’s amnesty grant to over 300 rebel soldiers will not stand in the way of the judiciary which she said has the jurisdiction over the mutineers’case.
She added that the Palace is still waiting for the Congress’ and the Senate’s concurrence on Proclamation 50 released by Malacañang last Tuesday.
“That (promulgation) is perfectly within the ambit and the jurisdiction of Judge Oscar Pimentel—we are not interfering on that. But, of course, as everybody knows, we are waiting for the concurrence of Congress. The waiting goes on and the process (toward granting) amnesty (to the rebel soldiers) continues and that will proceed separately from the track that the case is going to take with the regional trial court,” Valte said on radio.
Aquino’s amnesty grant raised eyebrows among his critics who questioned its timing suspecting a political move that encroached on the jurisdiction of the courts..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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