Former senator Leila de Lima said she is disappointed with government prosecutors for filing a motion that resulted in a Muntinlupa judge inhibiting himself from hearing her last remaining drug case. ManilaBulletin READ:
In an order, Presiding Judge Abraham Joseph Alcantara of the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 204 granted the motion filed by the Department of Justice’s panel of prosecutors for him to recuse from Case No. 17-167.Case No. 17-167, filed by the DOJ in February 2017, accused De Lima and others of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading.
She said that “if they are truly agents of justice, the Panel of Prosecutors should have proceeded to entrust the appreciation of their evidence through the crucible of a judge whose independence, impartiality, and courage to do the right thing have already been proven in the past, i.e., in my second case.”
“Inhibition is done to assure the accused, not the government, that the trial of the case will be fair and regular. The Constitution’s Bill of Rights upon which all of the most basic elements of our justice system are grounded has for its inception the fundamental law’s assurances against the abuse of the strong arm of the law by the State,” she said.
Alcantara was the judge who acquitted De Lima and Ronnie Dayan in Case No. 17-165 in a decision dated May 12.
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