SC slaps Jimenez with P100K fine, reprimands Vizconde By Benjamin B. Pulta 02/18/2011

SC slaps Jimenez with P100K fine, reprimands Vizconde

By Benjamin B. Pulta 02/18/2011

Widower Lauro Vizconde has been reprimanded while another anti-crime advocate was fined P100,000 by the Supreme Court (SC) for their utterances shortly after the high tribunal’s decision to acquit the accused in the Vizconde massacre debacle.

Court administrator Jose Midas Marquez told newsmen that “the court has issued a resolution strongly admonishing Lauro Vizconde for publicly stating the court has been bought and that Justice Carpio, who has inhibited himself from the case has pressured or influenced the court into acquitting Lejano and company.”

“The court also finds Dante Jimenez guilty of contempt of court for bad-mouthing members of the court and imposes a penalty of P100,000 fine,” Marquez explained.

“There is a defining line, make your views heard, right to seek redress and also freedom of speech. But of course, all these are not unlimited. There is a limit to all these freedoms, in this case, Jimenez transgressed that limit,” the SC official said..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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