President Benigno “Nonoy” Aquino has written the Supreme Court asking to allow the live coverage of the trial on the heinous Maguindanao massacre – the mass execution on November 23, 2009 of 57 people including the wife and two sisters of a political rival of the suspects, two lady lawyers, 32 journalists and some innocent [...]
TV and broadcast trial of massacre, a function of fair play and democracy
November 25, 2010 By 11 Comments
Presumption of uninnocence
May 1, 2009 By 87 Comments
The image above is the interior of a Starex van where, according to the three-woman panel of a special division of the Court of Appeals, US Marine Daniel Smith and Nicole (a fictitious name for privacy protection) consummated their “unplanned, spontaneous romantic episode” having been “carried away by their passions and stirred up by the [...]
Due process and the rule of law
January 6, 2009 By 25 Comments
Last September, agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested and charged Richard Santos Brodett, Jorge Jordana Joseph, and Joseph Ramirez Tecson for the use, possession, and sale of illegal drugs. The PDEA saw it as an “open and shut” case. Prosecutors from the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed. But not in the way [...]
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