Prosecutors ‘fear’ lost cause in Dacer case
By Benjamin B. Pulta 11/24/2011State lawyers said they fear it is a lost cause in their bid to prosecute the case against administration lawmaker Sen. Panfilo Lacson and Michael Ray Aquino for the November 2000 killing of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito.
The development arose after the Manila regional trial court announced that the Supreme Court had ruled to dismiss the appeal filed by the daughters of Dacer to reverse a ruling of the Court of Appeals nullifying the criminal charges against Lacson and declared that prosecution witness, former policeman Cesar Mancao, is “not a credible witness.”
Senior State Prosecutor Phillip Kimpo said with the ruling of the high court on Lacson’s discharge as suspect, the prosecution panel is in quandary on how to treat Mancao’s testimony insofar as Mancao’s alleged role in the killing is concerned..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111124hed3.html
2 comments:
sa bayang ito basta nasa loob ng mga dilaw, makakalusot ka kahit sa murders, poll fraud, o power grab.
"“Our case is now, if the SC will sustain the CA, something like our case against Lacson has collapsed. Our concern here is how Mancao’s affidavit will be considered, whether all contents therein are considered incredible. What we want to know is whether the entire testimony of Mancao will be stricken out, or just that portion referring to Lacson,”he said, referring to Mancao’s allegation that he had overheard Lacson directly give his instruction to Aquino to neutralize “Delta” while they were inside a car a month before Dacer was abducted."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6XN7tBx8u8
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