A day after the Sandiganbayan ordered former Isabela governor Grace Padaca to be arrested, she appeared before the anti-graft court and pleaded not guilty, but not without receiving chiding remarks from the magistrates.

The incumbent commissioner of the Commission on Elections entered her "not guilty" plea before the Sandiganbayan Third Division a day after the court issued a warrant of arrest against her.

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