Supreme Court administrator Midas Marquez on Thursday deplored that a year after the murder of a distinguished Negros Occidental judge, “the masterminds have not been brought to justice and remain scot-free.”
The Philippines is aiming to speed up convictions in the country’s worst political massacre to ensure justice amid fears the trial could drag on for years, the country’s top justice official said.
For the wheels of justice to turn, escapee Cezar Mancao II must return to the fold of the law and face the accusation against him, Sen. Gregorio Honasan, himself a former fugitive, said on Sunday.
An Ohio man convicted of raping and murdering a six-month-old baby was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday after a last-ditch plea for mercy was dismissed.
The transfer of at least 50 suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits from Basilan to a jail facility here is a “security nightmare,” said a police official here.
A year after the farm workers of Hacienda Luisita won their case before the Supreme Court, the Department of Agrarian Reform said it remained on track with the distribution of land to more than 6,000 farmer-beneficiaries.
A Quezon City court has junked a contempt charge lodged against one of the private prosecutors in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre case.
Another suspect in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre has been captured by government forces.
Police are looking into several angles in the killing of the live-in partner of Mayor Herminigildo Betonio III of Pio V. Corpus town, Masbate and the wounding of his sister shortly after their arrival in Cebu Monday morning.
The Sandiganbayan on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Laguna Lake Development Authority general manager Nereus Acosta and his mother, Soccoro, in connection with the perjury charge filed against them by the Office of the Ombudsman.
Negros Occidental Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. has sued for libel Pulupundan Mayor Magdaleno Peña and sought P7 million in damages for claiming in a local newspaper article that he is having delusions and dementia.
Where is Jonas Burgos? Is he still alive? Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said on Thursday the inquiry to be conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation on orders of President Aquino would determine answers to these questions nearly five years after activist Jonas Burgos, son of the late press freedom icon Joe Burgos, disappeared after being abducted.
The man held responsible for the death of a Metro Manila policeman and injuries to three others in a road accident on Black Saturday is now facing several criminal complaints.
