Lawyer Karen Jimeno said in an interview with Radyo Inquirer 990 AM Thursday that retired associate justice Serafin Cuevas used to scold and reprimand the other members of the defense panel over conflicting opinions during the impeachment trial.
They may have been reviled repeatedly for coming to the trial unprepared, but members of the House prosecution panel won the conviction of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona and that’s all President Benigno Aquino III needed to heap praise and gratitude on them.
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), which openly supported convicted Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, also accepted the Senate’s decision.
Seven senator-judges cited her dismissal in their decision to convict and remove Renato Corona as Chief Justice.
Widely regarded as the “gods of Padre Faura,” the justices of the Supreme Court of the land are now ready to answer the people’s call for transparency in the judiciary and other governmental offices.
A day after the Senate impeachment court issued a landmark ruling removing Chief Justice Renato Corona, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile on Wednesday warned him against questioning the decision in the Supreme Court.
A “very sad” Renato Corona had a “cordial” meeting with his lawyers on Tuesday night, hours after he became the first Supreme Court Chief Justice to be ousted from office by the Senate impeachment court.
Chief Justice Renato Corona was convicted not because of the prosecutorial skills of his accusers but the blunders committed by his lawyers.
Twenty senators may have convicted Chief Justice Renato Corona, but members of Alyansa ng Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) remain grateful to him for his role in the April 24 Supreme Court ruling that granted them land on Hacienda Luisita.
Guilty. The judgment of the Senate against Chief Justice Renato Corona came with a vote of an overwhelming majority of senators – 20 to 3.
The Constitution and our statutes oblige every public official to make and submit “a complete disclosure of his assets, liabilities, and net worth in order to suppress any questionable accumulation of wealth.”
A 15-year-old Supreme Court decision dismissing a lowly court interpreter from government service for not reporting a market stall in her statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) served as template for the conviction of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The fireworks they prepared remained unlit but they cheered their fallen idol until the end.
