Lacson sets conditions on coming out of hiding By Angie M. Rosales 08/23/2010

Lacson sets conditions on coming out of hiding

By Angie M. Rosales 08/23/2010 Fugitive Sen. Panfilo Lacson wanted that he be placed on “house arrest” instead of going straight to jail and that the Aquino administration reopen investigations into the double-murder case involving the 2000 slaying of publicist Salvador Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito as conditions for his surfacing. Lacson is willing to come out from hiding but does not want to go to jail, his son said yesterday as his family appealed to President Aquino to have a standing arrest warrant on him suspended and call for the reinvestigation of the Dacer-Corbito double murder case. Ronald Jay Lacson, the senator’s son and office chief staff, said they made the request to the administration “so he can safely go home.” Lacson issued the surrender feeler a day after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) recalled his passports. While the senator is very eager to face his accusers, the younger Lacson emphasized that this father does not want to be incarcerated, even for a short moment, for a crime he did not commit. “He never considered going to jail, even for a minute, as an option,” he said. The camp of Police Superintendent Cezar Mancao, meanwhile, indicated that it approves of a house arrest on Lacson to bring him out of hiding and for him to face the charges filed against him by the families of Dacer and Corbito..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100823hed6.html

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