Gringo: DoJ should seek court ruling on arrest order
02/07/2011By Angie M. Rosales
Fugitive Sen. Panfilo Lacson’s mistah in the upper chamber, Sen. Gregorio Honasan, yesterday came to his defense, urging Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to bring the issue on the effectivity of the arrest warrant on Lacson to court.
This stems from De Lima’s pro-nouncements that Lacson, whose double murder charges were or-dered dismissed last week by the Court of Appeals (CA), is still the subject of a manhunt.
De Lima claimed her agency is yet to receive a formal copy of the CA Special Sixth Division’s decision and that technically the arrest warrant issued by a trial court against Lacson stands.
Honasan, in a radio interview, said Lacson’s counter-statements made over the weekend against De Lima raised several issues for consideration.
“Based on the pronouncements of his lawyers, citing the CA ruling, it’s already executory and therefore the senator can now come out. But this is different from the opinion made by the DoJ chief,” he said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110207hed5.html
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