House panel’s case vs Corona crumbles By Angie M. Rosales and Benjamin B. Pulta 02/22/2012

PROSECUTION WAILS: DUE PROCESS SHORTCUTS AS TECHNICALITES

House panel’s case vs Corona crumbles

By Angie M. Rosales and Benjamin B. Pulta 02/22/2012

Crumbling before the very eyes of the prosecutors and their private lawyers was their Article 3 case against Chief Justice Renato Corona on the 21st day of the impeachment trial, leaving the prosecution panel to wail that the due process shortcuts are mere technicalities, which drew the ire of the presiding judge.

The House prosecution panel’s alleged impeachable offenses committed by the Supreme Court Chief Justice have started to crumble with the the admissibility of evidence in its supposed strongest case now under fire and with its witness to back up Article 3 being denied by the presiding officer for being “irrelevant.”

Worse, the prosecution’s alleged evidence on Article 3 grounded on Corona’s alleged culpable violation of
the Constitution and betrayal of public trust was called “trash” by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, the presiding judge of the Senate court as the information being offered pertained to the chief magistrate’s purported commmission of a bribery, which is not even mentioned in the so-called charge sheet..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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