Making Napoles state witness would mean acquittal – Justice

Justice Seretary Leila de Lima did not seem to know the implications of what she was getting into when she talked businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles into ratting on senators and other personalities implicated in the pork barrel scam, a justice said in a comment on the case.

For one, according to the justice who requested anonymity, de Lima should have known that it is not the Department of Justice (DOJ) but the Sandiganbayan that determines who can be a state witness, a role that she wanted Napoles to play.