JPE: Trillanes’ promulgation delay may mean conviction
By Angie M. Rosales 12/17/2010Detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV could have been meted with a conviction on his participation in the failed Oakwood mutiny in 2003.
Thus was the assessment given yesterday by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile on the reported deferment of the promulgation of the case pending before Judge Oscar Pimentel of the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 148.
“If it was an acquittal, I think he would have proclaimed it since that is in line with the amnesty, the thrust of the amnesty. So I assume that, that (guilty verdict) is the content of his decision — guilty verdict against the people who are involved in the case,” he said.
Enrile, appearing in the weekly Kapihan sa Senado news forum, said that based on the information that reached him, the presiding judge already reached a decision on the said case.
“What I don’t know is what is the content of his decision,” he said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20101217nat2.html
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