The public’s pulse
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
The defense panel wants Senator-Judge Franklin Drilon to inhibit, and Drilon has already said he won’t do so, because there is no basis for such an inhibition call. A big reason for Drilon not to inhibit himself is that it would be one less vote for conviction of the Chief Justice.
But whatever reason Drilon, as impeachment judge, gives, does not matter, since even calls for inhibition is the decision of the judge, not of the defense, or even of the presiding judge.
xxxx....This is no longer 2000, when a highly partisan impeachment court made the trial of then sitting President Joseph Estrada collapse and was applauded by the elite in the country when it was clearly the destruction of the rule of law and the reign of the rule of force..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120124com2.html
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