CJ’s turn
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Chief Justice Renato Corona appears to be on a media blitz, as the defense team prepares for its turn at the trial, since Corona and his defense counsels are expected to start submitting their pieces of evidence as well as their witnesses to disprove the charges leveled against the Chief Justice in at least three Articles of Impeachment.
Earlier, it was the prosecution and its propaganda spokesmen who kept up with their media blitz, making it appear that their case against the CJ was airtight and that there was no way his defense lawyers can explain away his alleged millions in his bank accounts.
And they have not stopped calling for his resignation, despite the trial being at an advance stage at this point, intimating that the CJ is afraid of testifying before the Senate Court because of his fear at being humiliated.
That is a pretty strange reaction, coming as it does from a prosecution panel and congressional allies who constantly crow that they have already won the case. If the CJ loses the case, it stands to reason that he will be out of the SC position, so why are they trying to exert pressure for him to resign and even portray Corona as being afraid to testify?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120308com1.html
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