A law firm has bowed out of the defense of Zaldy Ampatuan, the former governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), among the main accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre.
A Quezon City court has decided to admit the prosecution’s evidence in opposition to the bail petition of Zaldy Ampatuan, the former governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, who is now one of the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre.
Behind a desk covered with stacks of papers, Quezon City Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes spends the day poring over case folders of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre.
Governor Esmael Mangudadatu has vowed to keep seeking justice for the 58 people who died in the Nov. 23, 2009, massacre right here in this town.
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court has set the arraignment of a son and a son-in-law of former Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. after denying their petitions for the dismissal of the murder charges against them for the killing of 58 persons in Maguindanao in 2009.
