De Lima to Ping: Prosecutor just doing her job
By Benjamin B, Pulta 03/29/2011Justice Secretary Leila de Lima took the cudgels for a female prosecutor whom Sen. Panfilo Lacson said went out of her way to solicit testimony by browbeating witnesses against the lawmaker in connection with the government’s reinvestigation into the killing of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and Emmanuel Corbito.
Speaking with newsmen, De Lima insisted that she is “neither friend nor enemy” to Ping who is perceived as having strong connections with President Aquino, being a close political ally.
Lacson has also accused De Lima’s predecessors in the Justice department of persecuting him to pressure him from backing off from his criticism of former President Gloria Arroyo..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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