Archive for January, 2012

PRESIDING OFFICER Juan Ponce Enrile allowed Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares to take the witness stand. However, Enrile said that Henares may only testify "to the extent of authenticating due execution of the documents."

IMPEACHMENT PROSECUTORS still insisted on calling Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares to the witness stand despite a ruling by Senator-Judges that prosecutors can no longer present evidence proving ill-gotten wealth on the part of Chief Justice...

ON DAY 6 of the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, the Senator-Judges disallowed the presentation of evidence allegedly showing that Corona accumulated ill-gotten wealth. Following a caucus by the Senator-Jurors at noon...

A documentary on the murder of Doc Gerry Ortega, produced by the PCIJ with support from the Open Society Institute (OSI) EXACTLY ONE YEAR ago today (January 24), a gunman shot dead Palawan environmentalist and broadcast journalist Doc Gerry...

January 24, 2012 · Posted in: General

Tell me how liberal you want it – Enrile

IMPEACHMENT PRESIDING OFFICER Juan Ponce Enrile tossed to his fellow Senator-Judges  the question of just how liberal he should be in the application of the rules of court. "Ako ay hindi hukom dito sa kaso na ito," Enrile. "Ako lamang ang inatasan...

PROSECUTION LAWYERS complained that the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona was being handled like a criminal trial, and asked that the proceedings be conducted with more liberality. Lead prosecutor Niel Tupas Jr. said that...

ARTICLE II RESPONDENT COMMITTED CULPABLE VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND/OR BETRAYED THE PUBLIC TRUST WHEN HE FAILED TO DISCLOSE TO THE PUBLIC HIS STATEMENT OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES, AND NET WORTH AS REQUIRED UNDER SEC. 17, ART. XI OF THE 1987...

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