The Sandiganbayan on Friday suspended anew the arraignment of the
graft charges against former Justice Secretary Hernando Perez and
three other co-accused but junked their move to suspend the
proceedings.
The Sandiganbayan First Division
headed by Presiding Justice Diosdado Peralta postponed the
arraignment to July 18.
A NEOPHYTE lawmaker on Friday
called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to crack down on the
estimated two million dubious and fictitious names of voters so as
to ensure an honest election in 2010.
The nine Magdaló officers of the
futile 2003 Oakwood mutiny who were later pardoned by President
Gloria Arroyo can finally start a new chapter of their lives after
they were released from detention on Friday.
Japanese prosecutors in southern
Okinawa said Friday they had dropped charges against a US soldier
accused of raping a Filipina, one of a series of criminal cases
linked to the American military.
A SENATE session last week was
disrupted for almost 30 minutes, and then abruptly adjourned after a
short resumption, when Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile raged over what he
considered an attempt by Sen. Rodolfo Biazon to belittle EDSA 1.
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