QC court dismisses legal challenges of Ampatuans
By Julie M. AurelioA Quezon City court has junked the bids of two Ampatuans challenging their indictment for the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, paving the way for their arraignment.
A Quezon City court has junked the bids of two Ampatuans challenging their indictment for the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, paving the way for their arraignment.
Defense lawyers in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre are asking a Quezon City court to throw out the prosecution’s objection to the petition for bail of former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr., one of the primary suspects in the crime.
A Quezon City judge on Tuesday ordered the immediate transfer from Cotabato City to Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City of the backhoe operator, the alleged gravedigger in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre who was arrested on Saturday.
Three foreign governments on Friday joined the commemoration of the third anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre and reminded the Philippine government, which seemed to have forgotten the event, about its promise to bring the perpetrators to justice.
On the third anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre on Friday, President Benigno Aquino III said nothing about that political violence that took the lives of 58 people, including 32 journalists.
Chinop-chop,” private prosecutor Nena Santos said in Taglish to the court trying the Maguindanao slaughter of 57 men and women. “Parang chainsaw massacre.”
A man claiming to be closely associated with former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. on Friday said he was ready to testify “to tell the truth” about the Maguindanao massacre.
Maguindanao massacre suspect Andal Ampatuan Sr. is back in jail after a Quezon City court ordered his discharge from a military hospital where he was confined for two weeks.
Let Andal Ampatuan Sr. undergo a CT scan before he is brought back to jail to determine whether he has cancer of the lungs or some other ailment, Ampatuan lawyer Philip Sigfrid Fortun has asked a Quezon City court.
Andal Ampatuan Sr., suspected mastermind of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, has no life threatening illness and can go back to his detention cell, a government doctor said.
The Pasay Regional Trial Court has agreed to the request of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be arraigned separately from former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. and provincial election supervisor Lintang Bedol, her two coaccused in the electoral sabotage case filed by the Commission on Elections.
Claiming they had not been apprised earlier of any additional prosecution evidence or witnesses, Ampatuan lawyers succeeded in blocking the presentation on Wednesday of what the prosecution described as “vital” evidence that was found hidden inside one of the Maguindanao Massacre victim’s underwear.
A week after the court interpreter resigned claiming to have been threatened by defendant Andal Ampatuan Sr., prosecutors and defense lawyers were on Wednesday again arguing over the replacement interpreter in the Maguindanao massacre trial. Defense counsels Sigfrid Fortun and Andres Manuel objected to the choice of Sukarno Amad, a shariah court interpreter, by Judge [...]
