Muntilupa RTC Branch 204 Presiding Judge Abraham Joseph Alcantara on Thursday granted the motion of state prosecutors for him to inhibit from resolving the last drug case against detained former senator Leila de Lima and her co-accused.
Muntilupa Regional Trial Court Branch 204 Presiding Judge Abraham Joseph Alcantara on Thursday granted the motion of state prosecutors for him to inhibit from resolving the last drug case against detained former senator Leila de Lima and her co-accused.
Judge Alcantara said he decided to grant the motion “not because the prosecution’s assertion is true but to put to rest any questions against his credibility, integrity, and fairness.” “Having adversely decided against the People in the previous Criminal Case No.17-165, the undersigned Panel of Prosecutors cannot help but be apprehensive that the Honorable Presiding Judge will carry over his perceptions to the instant case,” the motion read.
Ragos executed an affidavit on September 5, 2016 claiming that in November 2012, as BuCor OIC and together with aide Jovencio Ablen, they delivered a black bag containing P5 million to De Lima and her bodyguard Ronnie Dayan at the former’s residence in Parañaque. The last drug case against de Lima was originally assigned to RTC Muntinlupa City Branch 256 Presiding Judge Romeo Buenaventura until he decided to inhibit from further hearing the case last June 15.
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