Menace to civilized society
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Just what business is it of the religious superiors to act as intervenors as they call on the high court to reverse its decision on the Hubert Webb, et al. acquittal?
That really is going too far, for the religious and clerics, and even for Lauro Vizconde and his sympathizers, because what they don’t seem to realize is that if the high court as much as takes up their call to reverse its ruling and convicts the already acquitted individuals, this is going to plunge the entire judicial system in big trouble and subject it to something akin to mob rule and dispense with the rule of law, as well as turning the justice system into a mockery by doing away with the principle of double jeopardy.
This has already happened once, during Cory Aquino’s time, when a big mistake was committed by the Supreme Court (SC) at the time it ordered the retrial of the accused soldiers in the Ninoy Aquino slay case after their acquittal of the charges at the Sandiganbayan. The high court is not likely to admit that the principle of double jeopardy was violated, even as it justified the retrial as a mistrial..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110104com2.html
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