Honest mistake, good faith, no intent to mislead, terminological inexactitude

From immersion in the case of  Grace Poe, I have gained not only invaluable information on the workings of our legal system, I also got a few insights into the work of lawyers and  their arsenal of defenses and strategies in defending clients when they lie.

Grace Poe’s lawyers (as well as her defenders in the Supreme Court) cannot be faulted for lacking  rrsourcefulness  and imagination in explaining  her “succession of falsities” (Justice Brion ‘s phrase) to convince the nation that she is constitutionally eligible to run for president.