Was Aquino’s grant of amnesty to Trillanes et al invalid?

AL S. VITANGCOL III

IN A media interview he gave in early March, the President’s chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo said: “Anything that is not the law can be a precedent. It is always in the context of the law. So, kung nagbigay siya ng amnesty na mali, eh hindi valid yon. (So, if he gave an amnesty that is wrong, then it is invalid.)”