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Complaint defective, won’t stand up in House process—prosecutor By Charlie V. Manalo 02/19/2012

Sunday, February 19, 2012

UMALI’S SLIP OF TONGUE

Complaint defective, won’t stand up in House process—prosecutor

By Charlie V. Manalo 02/19/2012

One by one the members of the House prosecution team realizing the ordeal that they have to go through to defend all the eight articles of impeachment against Chief Justice Renato Corona are owing up to the defects in the complaint document used to rush the impeachment of the Supreme Court (SC) head.

No less than Deputy Speaker, Ilocos Rep. Rudy Fariñas, a member of the House prosecution team admitted, had earlier the complaint was badly written and yesterday it was the turn of House prosecutor Oriental Mindoro Rep. Rey Umali to admit that the articles of impeachment were defective.

At the weekly news forum at Annabel’s in Quezon City, Umali, the man behind the small lady tale, in a slip of tongue, admitted the complaint was defective and that it won’t stand a chance of being approved by the House had it undergone the normal process of being heard before the Committee on Justice..... MORE

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