CA stops QC court from filing case vs drug suspect 5 yrs after arrest
By Tetch Torres-Tupas
The Court of Appeals stopped the Quezon City regional trial court from acting on a case filed against a drug suspect five years after her arrest.
The Court of Appeals stopped the Quezon City regional trial court from acting on a case filed against a drug suspect five years after her arrest.
Two newly bought pairs of pants were apparently not enough for an 18-year-old sales worker who was charged in court Friday for stealing another pair from the store he was working for.
National Bureau of Investigation agents have been scouring eastern Metro Manila for two days but have found no trace of the slippery fugitive Cezar Mancao II, though he has made himself available for TV, radio and print interviews.
A Quezon City court has ordered the arrest of five members of a family and two other persons in Barangay (village) Batasan Hills for their involvement in the 2011 murders of five of their neighbors over a land dispute.
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court has slapped a temporary restraining order against the reorganization being implemented by state-run National Power Corp., which would have resulted in the termination of some 300 permanent and contractual employees.
President Benigno Aquino III has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to open a “focused, dedicated and exhaustive’’ investigation of the April 2007 abduction of Jonas Burgos shortly after his mother announced that she has obtained evidence that would implicate the military in Burgos’ disappearance.
The Supreme Court (SC) has cracked the whip on a Cebu City judge and her clerk of court for failing to resolve several cases on time, mismanaging court records, among other infractions.
Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Co has asked the court to hold the proceedings on the syndicated estafa case filed against him as well as the issuance of a warrant for his arrest and arraignment.
After having two officials tangling over the mayor’s seat three months ago, this city is now without a mayor. Vice Mayor Ester Lazaro said she would not assume the mayoral seat even as Mayor Efren Alvarez has gone on another prolonged absence after the Sandiganbayan issued a warrant for his arrest on graft charges on Feb. 15. This prompted the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police to run after him.
The video that went viral was apparently not convincing enough. The four men charged with the murder of US Marine Major George Anikow walked out of jail on Friday after being granted bail by a Makati City judge who cited insufficient proof that they acted in conspiracy and used “superior strength” in the street brawl that led to the killing.
More than two years after his surrender, accused-turned-state-witness Sultan sa Barongis vice mayor Sukarno Badal was finally able to give his testimony on the Maguindanao massacre in court.
For asking a Quezon City regional court to temporarily stop the Social Weather Stations and Pulse Asia from conducting senatorial preference surveys, a candidate now finds himself the subject of a P1.4-million countersuit from the two polling organizations.
Following a slump in the sales of new motor vehicles in the country, then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued Executive Order No. 156 on Dec. 12, 2002, banning the importation of used vehicles (except light trucks, buses and special-purpose vehicles).
