Ping Lacson cleared, expected to resurface
By Benjamin B. Pulta 02/04/2011Remember him?
Missing lawmaker Panfilo “Ping” Lacson can finally come in from the cold after a ruling by the Court of Appeals (CA) ordered the dismissal of the criminal charges against him in connection with the 2000 murders of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito.
In an 80-page decision, the appellate court’s Special Sixth Division through Associate Justice Ramon Bato Jr. granted Lacson’s petition and overturned a Manila court’s twin rulings dated Feb. 4, 2010 and July 23 which found probable cause against Lacson and ordered his arrest, respectively.
“The orders of public respondent court (Manila Trial Court Branch 18) finding probable cause for the issuance of warrants of arrest against petitioner (Lacson) are nullified and set aside. The informations in the criminal cases are hereby dismissed,” the CA ordered.
The decision which was concurred in by Associate Justices Juan Enriquez Jr. and Isaias Dicdican said that “there being no probable cause to legally justify the filing of two separate informations for murder against petitioner (Lacson), consistent with his constitutional right to be presumed innocent and in consonance with existing jurisprudence, he (Lacson) should be relieved of the pain and agony of trial.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110204hed5.html
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