TWO years ago, the Court of Appeals set free a female drug suspect who languished in jail for more than five years without a case filed against her because some people in the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Philippine Na-tional Police (PNP) forgot about her.
Somebody must have faced at least an administrative charge for neglect of duty, and the detainee must have been compensated for what the CA described as “unreasonable …intolerable …shockingly unimaginable” delay in bringing her to the court of justice.
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