Alarming unfolding scenario
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Dear Editor:
I read with much interest — and alarm — your analysis of the scenario unfolding with respect to the double murder case against Sen. Panfilo Lacson. While my client and I are still willing to give Secretary Leila de Lima the benefit of the doubt regarding her handling of the case — as she has shown nothing thus far for us to doubt her sincerity, as in fact, she has been vigorous in pursuing this case, even to the extent of cancelling Mr. Lacson’s passport and ordering the intensification of the manhunt against him — one can only imagine what pressures are being brought to bear on her by Mr. Lacson’s political allies in the Palace, in order to get the senator off the hook.
If what we fear the most will transpire, and Senator Lacson, by some stroke of technicality or legal nicety, will be excluded from the case, then it will indeed be a black day for the criminal justice system in the country. As we have publicly said at the start of President Aquino’s administration, how he handles this case will be an acid test for his governance. It will again show to all and sundry that the rich and powerful can get away with anything in this country..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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