Enrile to ask judge to allow detained Trillanes to attend Senate sessions By Angie M. Rosales 10/12/2010

Enrile to ask judge to allow detained Trillanes to attend Senate sessions

By Angie M. Rosales 10/12/2010

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile has initiated moves to enable detained colleague, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, to attend Senate sessions pending the resolution of the coup charges against him.

Enrile, in an interview with reporters, bared plans of seeking an appointment with the judge handling Trillanes’ case to discuss a possible arrangement, without entailing the upper chamber into a possible interference with the judicial proceedings.

“I’ll tell you very frankly what I’m going to do. I’m going to make an appointment with the judge and discuss it with him without intruding into the domain of judicial process. As head of the Senate, I will do that informally and if he says no, I will respect him. But if he says yes, we can do it, then I will then advise the lawyers of Trillanes to file the proper motions and let the court issue the order without any interference or any influence from us and he (judge) will dictate the manner Trillanes will conduct himself in the Senate.

“He can say, well, you cannot deliver privilege speeches. You cannot have interviews or press conferences or you cannot do this and do that or you cannot go outside the building of the Senate. In other words, the whole situation is in the hands of the court..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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