Court grants Sorsogon mayor’s bid to drop case

THE Sandiganbayan’s First Division granted the motion to dismiss that Mayor Helen de Castro of Bulan, Sorsogon filed in connection with the graft case lodged against her and two others over the alleged failure to deduct liquidated damages from payment to a contractor in 2007.

In a 14-page resolution promulgated on March 2, the court granted the motions filed by De Castro and Shirley Baldon, owner of S.R. Baldon Construction and Supply, claiming that their right to speedy disposition of the case was violated.