Squealing justice?
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Senators Sonny Trillanes and Panfilo Lacson, Noynoy’s staunch allies in the Senate, as well as the prosecutors, know that the prosecution has no solid evidence with which to establish their charge of partiality against the Chief Justice (CJ).
Despite having had their ally, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima testify lengthily on the alleged partiality of CJ, relying solely on the dissenting opinion of one Supreme Court junior justice Lourdes Sereno, that partiality charge was not backed up by evidence, as her testimony was clearly hearsay. De Lima, even as she quoted Sereno on what supposedly went on in the closed door en banc session of the justices, was not present in that same en banc reserved only for justices and therefore she had no personal knowledge on what she was testifying on that alleged partiality of CJ Renato Corona.
Trillanes now wants Sereno to be “interrogated” through a questionaire from the senator-judges..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120225com1.html
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