ABSCBN News reports on this not unexpected, not unpredicted development. She has left the Philippines saying she could get no Justice here, has fired her grandstanding, ideologically motivated nut-case of a lawyer, Evalyn Ursua, who got her walking papers from Nicole’s Mother. Well no wonder. Neither mother nor daughter nor any decent person, even after having gone through such an ordeal, wants to become the Permanent Battering Ram of the CPP-NPA_NDF Lynch Mob against “U.S. Imperialism”. I would have none of a legal strategy either that involves the abrogation of a half century old Mutual Defense Treaty and its implementing agreements like the Visiting Forces Agreement. Note that Nicole went to America, not North Korea or Utrecht.   Get a real lawyer who won’t make radical politics her agenda, Nicole.   Justice must still be done!  The full news article follows…

“Nicole,” the victim who was raped in Subic rape case, has left for the United States, for good.

This is according to a statement by her lawyer Evalyn G. Ursua, who received the news from Nicole’s mother.

Ursua added that Nicole’s mother gave her a letter Monday afternoon at about 5:30, stating Nicole’s “‘notice of termination of [my] services as [her] counsel in the criminal case” against Daniel Smith and all ‘other cases arising from or related’ to it, ‘which are pending before the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.’”

Ursua also mentioned that she asked Nicole’s mother for an explanation for the termination of her counsel services.

“Nicole and her family are tired of the case and they do not want anymore to be bothered by it because ‘there is no justice in the Philippines,’” Ursua’s statement read.

The letter also said thank you to Ursua “for all the time and effort that you have devoted in the prosecution of the case.”

Ursua noted in her statement that there is no way for her to confirm with Nicole the details of the letter. She then presumed that the letter correctly states Nicole’s decision.

“I will therefore respect it,” she added.

In addition, Ursua said the letter noted that copies of it were or will be furnished to the Office of the Solicitor General and Smith’s lawyer, Atty. Jose Justiniano.

American serviceman Lance Corporal Daniel Smith was found guilty by a regional trial court of raping Nicole in Subic in 2005 while he was on R&R. He has appealed the decision.

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