SC thumbs down oral arguments on Vizconde appeal
01/12/2011A motion asking the Supreme Court (SC) to hold oral arguments on the Vizconde massacre case has been turned down by the tribunal, court officials said yesterday.
Lawyers of widower Lauro Vizconde have filed a motion for reconsideration which had been filed before the high court claiming that justices who voted to acquit Hubert Webb and his co-accused in the June 1991 Vizconde massacre case committed grave abuse of discretion.
Court spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said that the SC deferred ruling on Vizconde’s motion for
reconsideration of the Court’s Dec. 14 decision reversing the conviction of Webb, Antonio Lejano, Michael Gatchalian, Hospicio “Pyke” Fernandez, Peter Estrada and Miguel Rodriguez for the murder of Estrellita Vizconde and her two daughters Carmela and Jennifer..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110112hed6.html
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