A LOCAL court dismissed the cases against the late Albuera (Leyte) mayor Rolando Espinosa but set the arraignment of his son on October 20.

Judge Silvino Pampilo, Jr., Branch 26 of the Manila Regional Trial Court, ruled that there was no point pursuing the case against mayor Espinosa who died in detention, along with a fellow inmate, following a police raid inside his cell on November 5, 2016.

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