Impeachment court Presiding Justice Juan Ponce Enrile dismissed Secretary Leila de Lima’s testimony as hearsay, saying the witness was not competent to testify whether the alleged irregularities in the issuance of the temporary restraining order (TRO) were true or not.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago is seeing the defeat of the prosecution team as shown by its lack of preparedness to defend the impeachment case against Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona resumed on Thursday with the defense team expected to continue its cross examination of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
Chief Justice Renato Corona owns two more peso accounts with the Philippine Savings Bank amounting to more than P24 million, an official of the bank disclosed on Thursday.
Quezon City Representative Jorge Banal has been invited to appear before the Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, after he allegedly approached an official of the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) inquiring about bank accounts of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The prosecution team has refused to declare the officials of the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) “hostile witnesses” despite contradicting testimonies they gave for the prosecution.
The impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona resumed on Thursday with the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) expected to produce the original copy of the chief magistrate’s alleged customer identification and specimen signature card with the bank.
A “scrap of paper” and a “very strange, bazaar” document were how Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago described the subpoena requested by the prosecution team containing unverified bank records of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona suspended early on Tuesday to allow participants in the proceeding to spend Valentine’s Day with their loved ones.
An official of the Bank of the Philippine Islands was called back to the witness stand on Tuesday in the ongoing impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The controversy surrounding the issuance of a subpoena on the bank records of Chief Justice Renato Corona was put to a debate before the Senate, acting as an impeachment court, on Tuesday with Corona’s lawyers likening the subpoena to a general “search warrant.”
Three senator- judges allied with the Aquino administration assured on Tuesday that political alliances would not influence their decision to either convict or acquit Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona entered its 17th day Tuesday since it started last January 16.
