Impartiality (?)
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
It couldn’t be a decision of “guilty beyond reasonable doubt,” since an impeachment court is a political exercise and not strictly a legal court where the piles and files of damning evidence would constitute the sole basis of the judges’ final verdict.
An impeachment court is sui generis, as Presiding Senator-Judge Juan Ponce-Enrile would insist. Therefore, there isn’t much impartiality we can expect from the senator-judges, as evidenced clearly by Sen. Franklin Drilon’s prosecutorial intervention in squeezing from the Supreme Court Clerk of Court the statement of assets and liabilities networth (SALn) of CJ Renato Corona.
However, in my humble opinion, the laying down on the table of CJ Corona’s SALn did more harm to the prosecution than to the defense since the former would rather keep the SALn clandestine at the moment to bolster the prosecutors’ Article 2 accusation that CJ Corona was amiss in filing the required SALn. (Drilon should meet more often with the prosecutors to synchronize their strategies)..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120122com7.html
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