Barramedas want ‘pressure’ on CA

The camp of Ruby Rose Barrameda will hold a rally in front of the Court of Appeals office on Aug. 14 in an attempt to “put pressure” on the justices to immediately resolve four petitions pending before it.

According to Robert Barrameda, the victim’s father, the appellate court has yet to decide on a petition filed in 2010 by one of the accused, Manuel Jimenez Jr., seeking the inhibition of Malabon Regional Trial Court Judge Zaldy Docena of Branch 170 from the case.

Jimenez Jr., Barrameda’s father-in-law, had sought the judge’s inhibition from the case, citing, among others, the latter’s ties with head prosecutor Theodore Villanueva, a former classmate at Ateneo Law School.

Robert said that hearings on the case have been halted temporarily until the appellate court resolves Jimenez Jr.’s petition.

“We’ve already submitted our replies. So what now? What does the [court] want? Does it want the case raffled off to another judge or are we [resuming] the hearings? What? We don’t even know,” he told the Inquirer on Saturday.

Because of the delays in the resumption of the trial, he said their plans to ask an independent group to examine Jimenez Jr. to determine the true state of his health has been put on hold.

Apart from that petition, the court has yet to act on another filed by Jimenez Jr. in April which sought the inhibition of Associate Justice Jose Reyes Jr. from the case.

Another accused, Lope Jimenez who is Jimenez Jr.’s brother, asked the court to stop the Department of Justice from prosecuting him while Manuel Jimenez III, the victim’s husband, asked the court to review the parricide case filed against him in connection with her death.

Robert said the rally, which would be attended by members of the University of Perpetual Help community, representatives from the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, and by church members, was scheduled on what would have been his daughter’s 33rd birthday.