Bank subpoenas OK’d, admissibility in question By Angie M. Rosales 02/07/2012

PROSECUTION STANDING ON SHAKY GROUNDS ON CJ BANK RECORDS

Bank subpoenas OK’d, admissibility in question

By Angie M. Rosales 02/07/2012

The prosecution panel may have obtained subpoenas for the bank records of the impeached head magistrate, but it appears to be on shaky ground in pursuing the conviction in the of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona even as the Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, granted the prosecution’s request for the banks to submit the bank documents, including his alleged foreign currency account.

The court’s appreciation of the said documents, alongside the testimonies of banks executives who have likewise been called by the Senate to testify, will come in as evidence only after the senator-judges have ruled its admissibility, presiding officer Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, said.

The Senate chief’s clarification came in the light of concerns raised by Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero on the public disclosure of the said documents, some of which had been attached to the prosecution’s petition to summon Corona’s bank records filed last Friday..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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