Power crisis now at hand
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| Louie Logarta |
The National Press Club (NPC) is going to ask Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, in behalf of one of its members, to sanction an enterprising fiscal in Pangasinan province for allegedly lawyering for the accused in an “acts of lasciviousness” case.
We are told that in the process, a huge amount of moolah was supposed to have exchanged hands. So what else is new?
Aside from this, NPC legal counsels are also suggesting a simultaneous petition for disbarment with the Supreme Court because the concerned fiscal had acted unethically in using his/her powerful position in the prosecutor’s office to try and influence the outcome of the case to the liking of the accused.
All this stems from an urgent letter to the NPC from a longtime member seeking assistance in the criminal complaint for “attempted rape” she had lodged against a media colleague last year.
“I appeal for your help because I feel the litigation process is tilting to favor the accused who had filed a libel suit against me as a tactic to get even with me,” she said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101021com4.html
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