Families ask SC to grant clemency to ‘Abadilla 5’
By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/24/2012A year after the Supreme Court upheld the guilty verdict on the five accused dubbed “Abadilla 5”—Senior Police Officer 2 Cesar Fortuna, Rameses de Jesus Calma, Leonardo Lumanog, Joel de Jesus and Augusto Santos — their families have asked the SC anew to take up their case.
In a letter to Court Administrator Midas Marquez, the wives of De Jesus brothers, Lumanog and Fortuna and the grandmother of Santos admitted they regretted their failure to submit last year a report of the Office of the Ombudsman charging 15 policemen who allegedly tortured the accused into admitting the crime.
“We are aware that our submission is a year too late and will no longer reverse the Supreme Court (SC) decision reaffirming an RTC conviction of the Abadilla 5. Late as it may be we are still giving you a copy of said resolution as part of our continuing battle to free five innocent men who have suffered almost 16 years of imprisonment,” they said in their letter..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20120324met1.html
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