Stripping suspects of their rights
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Justice Chief Leila de Lima, a former chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, now wants to do away with certain rights of suspects and accused, saying that the law makes it difficult for law enforcers to do their job and as a consequence, lose cases they filed against the suspect-accused.
What De Lima today seeks is to have Congress legalize the illegal shortcuts taken by anti-drug enforcers, for the government to win its cases against the accused drug traffickers and addicts.
Stated differently, De Lima, instead of upholding and safeguarding the rights of the accused, who are still presumed innocent, wants not only to curtail those rights, but also eliminate them, which would leave the suspect at the mercy of law enforcers who are known to plant evidence and even frame those they want to haul to jail, even when no such crime was committed..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110901com1.html
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