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Palparan says he’s too poor to pay lawyer

By: - Correspondent / @inquirerdotnet
/ 04:30 AM February 05, 2016

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Retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. RAFFY LERMA/INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

CITY OF MALOLOS—The court hearing the kidnapping and illegal detention charges against detained retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. assigned him a temporary lawyer on Thursday after he dismissed his lawyers and expressed desire to represent himself in the trial.

Palparan attended the trial without his lawyers and informed Judge Alexander Tamayo of the Bulacan Regional Trial Court Branch 15 that he could no longer afford to pay his lawyers.

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Instead, lawyers Narzal Mallares and Diosab Formilleza had agreed to serve as consultants to help him prepare his legal briefs in the course of the trial, Palparan said.

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He also said he could not accept the services of a public attorney because the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) is under the Department of Justice, which is prosecuting him and three others for the 2006 kidnapping and illegal detention of missing University of the Philippines students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño.

Aside from Palparan, others charged in the case were Lt. Col. Felipe Anotado, Staff Sgt. Edgardo Osorio and Master Sgt. Rizal Hilario, who is at large.

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But Tamayo temporarily assigned lawyer Abner Torres, counsel for Anotado and Osorio, during the hearing on Thursday, stressing that Palparan needed proper representation in his trial.

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The judge also urged Palparan to reconsider seeking help from the PAO or from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.

The prosecution rested its case during the hearing, according to Julian Oliva of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, the group representing the families of the missing students.

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A newlyweds returning from honeymoon were also among the victims of the crash, just two weeks after tying the knot at a ceremony on Dec. 13. A 32-year-old woman who was about to get married next spring was also among those who took the flight. A father who took his two sons on a trip to Bangkok was found to have died in the tragedy as well. The family was celebrating the elder son recently being accepted to university. A 30-year-old reporter at a Gwangju-based media outlet was one of the passengers of the flight 7C 2216, along with her 33-year-old husband. The vacation was a reward from the reporter's company, during which she posted a photo of a hotel swimming pool in Bangkok on her Instagram saying, "The weather here is so great, it's like early summer." A 50-year-old woman aboard the flight took the trip after surviving a yearlong cancer treatment. It was her first overseas trip since her honeymoon with her husband, who had passed away three years ago. The oldest victim in the accident, a 79-year-old man, was returning from a trip that was arranged by his family. His wife, two daughters and one of his son-in-laws, his granddaughter and three grandsons were also on board. Forty-one of the passengers aboard the flight were on the return leg of a package tour that left Muan International Airport on Christmas night. Of the 175 passengers, 103 were aged at least 50, while 14 were under the age of 20. The Ministry of Education on Monday announced that four of the victims were in elementary school, three in middle school, three in high school, and one was attending a local daycare center.
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