Prolonging a useless case
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Lead prosecutor Niel Tupas Jr. denied there was a rift within the prosecution team due to his having rested the case on Article 7 without any reservation and failed to wait for Supreme Court junior Justice Lourdes Sereno to reply to their invitation, as charged by Leftist party-lister Rep. Neri Colmenares.
Perhaps there is, perhaps there is none, but the Senate court records will show that Tupas, at the start, did come out to state before the court that he was resting the case and tried to seek another reservation, this time on Article 7, on account of the Sereno invitation, but suddenly changed his tune, as he probably would have gotten another earful from the senators, for reviving that which he had pronounced as having rested his case.
Tupas had already stated the day before, that the prosecution was resting its case, save for a reservation on Article 2, on the issue of the evidence on Chief Justice Renato Corona’s alleged dollar accounts. To reopen Article 7 again would mean that the prosecution panel hadn’t rested at all and would keep on coming back, after the defense panel would have already produced its evidence and witnesses..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120304com2.html
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