The culpability of being ‘not most guilty’

PORK barrel scam queen Janet Lim-Napoles is back in the news with her surprise acquittal from the charge of serious illegal detention, which could set her free but only to be jailed again for separate non-bailable charges of plunder.

Napoles was convicted by a Makati trial court in 2015 for allegedly detaining Benhur Luy, a relative, in a retreat house against his will, supposedly to prevent Luy from spilling the beans on the multi-year, multi-billion plunder of congressional funds through ghost projects.