A Southern California judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim didn’t put up a fight during her assault and that if someone doesn’t want sexual intercourse, the body “will not permit that to happen.”
SEVERAL reporters covering a trial at the Palace of Justice yesterday were scolded by a Cebu City judge who saw TV crews taking video footage in his court room.
THE judge who convicted nine foreigners and two Filipinos in the 2004 shabu mega lab case in Mandaue City will hold office in Cagayan de Oro for her new post. Judge Marilyn Lagura-Yap was sworn into office yesterday as an associate justice of the Court of Appeals 23rd division. With her four children as witnesses, [...]
Caloocan Vice Mayor Edgar Erice on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to dismiss from the service a Caloocan Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge who issued an order that blocked the suspension of Mayor Enrico Echiverri and three other city officials.
Residents of eight middle-class subdivisions in Quezon City have asked the Supreme Court to punish a Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge who had awarded a 24-hectare prime property to a suspected leader of a “professional squatting syndicate.” More than 3,000 people are in danger of losing their homes after Judge Tita Marilyn Payoyo-Villordon [...]
A Quezon City judge has inhibited himself from appearing in the murder trial of road rage suspect Jason Ivler. In an order dated August 5, Judge Bayani Vargas of Regional Trial Court Branch 219 said he would no longer handle the case so as not create any impression of partiality for either parties involved in [...]
The driver of a Pasay City Regional Trial Court judge was shot and killed when he refused to turn over a Mitsubishi Montero (NGP-591) to thieves at around 5:30 a.m. Friday in front of the vehicle owner’s house in Barangay Tandang Sora, Quezon City. Insp. Elmer Monsalve, chief of the homicide investigation section of the [...]
MANILA, Philippines—The Metropolitan Makati Trial Court (MTC) has assigned Presiding Judge Josefino Subia of Branch 66 to handle the “evasion of service of sentence” case against former Batangas Gov. Jose Antonio Leviste and his driver Nilo Solis. Earlier, an inquest conducted by Senior State Prosecutor Lilian Alejo found probable cause to charge Leviste with the [...]
