{"id":15572,"date":"2012-01-05T04:38:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearwaterphilippines.com\/wordpress\/?p=15572"},"modified":"2012-01-05T04:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:38:13","slug":"house-violated-own-rules-after-hiring-private-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clearwaterphilippines.com\/resort\/2012\/01\/house-violated-own-rules-after-hiring-private-prosecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"House \u2018violated own rules\u2019 after hiring private prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Virgil B. Lopez
\nWednesday, January 4, 2012
\nTHE House of Representatives violated its own rules when it acquired the services of a private lawyer for the upcoming impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, said a retired justice.
\nThe House hired Mario Bautista, the lawyer of bank executive Clarissa Ocampo, a key witness against former President Joseph Estrada in his impeachment trial in 2000.
\nBut retired Supreme Court justice Serafin Cuevas, who defended Estrada in the same trial, said Rule VI, Section 15 of the House rules of procedure in impeachment proceedings only allowed members of the House as prosecutors.
\n“The House of Representatives shall act as the sole prosecutor at the trial in the Senate through a committee of 11 members, thereof, to be elected by a majority vote,” the rule said.
\nCorona\u2019s impeachment case is expected to be heard by senator-judges beginning January 16 but the chief magistrate had asked the Senate to resolve first his motion to verify the signatures of 188 lawmakers who voted for his ouster last December 12.
\nHe also asked for a pre-trial that will determine how many witnesses will be summoned and what documents will be presented by both the prosecution and defense panels.
\nBautista, as said earlier by prosecution chair Iloilo Representative Niel Tupas, will oversee the legal strategy especially of the nine legal teams composed of volunteer lawyers who will assist the 11-man prosecution panel in handling the eight articles of impeachment.
\n\u201cThey said they are prepared, that they are good. Why the need to hire private prosecutors?\u201d Cuevas asked in a television interview.
\nFor his part, fellow defense lawyer Dennis Manalo said the rules of criminal procedure only allow the designation of a private prosecutor if the workload of the fiscal is already too much and that a private interest is involved.
\n\u201cIn this particular case, who is the private party that has been damaged? There is nobody so what is a private prosecutor doing?\u201d he said.
\nCuevas said the hiring of private prosecutors during the impeachment trial of Estrada should not be used as reason to do the same.
\n\u201cThey are citing that (Estrada impeachment) as jurisprudence of precedent. How can that be when that was not terminated? That was not finished,\u201d Cuevas said.
\nEstrada\u2019s trial was aborted in 2001 when private prosecutors walked out of the impeach proceedings, leading to the Edsa People Power 2 Revolution that toppled Estrada and installed then Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the presidency.
\nMalaca\u00f1ang came to the House\u2019s defense, with Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs Ronald Llamas calling Cuevas\u2019 assertion as \u201cincorrect\u201d.
\nCiting Rule XIII of the impeachment rules adopted by the Senate, Llamas said the \u201ccounsel for the prosecutors shall be under the control of and supervision of the panel of prosecutors of the House.\u201d
\n\u201cThis clearly indicates that the House panel is specifically empowered to retain separate, private counsel who may be admitted to appear before the impeachment court,\u201d he told Sun.Star.
\nLlamas said Corona\u2019s camp is just running out of arguments that would merit the dismissal of the impeachment complaint.
\n\u201cThey are actually quite worried that Corona will swiftly be convicted due to the strength of case against him. This may also be an indicator of how they plan to approach the trial; by bringing up weakly grounded and tangential technical issues instead of confronting the charges head on,\u201d he said.
\nCorona is accused of committing high crimes such as graft and corruption, culpable violation of the Constitution, and betrayal of public trust.
\nHe has since denied wrongdoing as he saw the ouster plot as a way for President Benigno Aquino III in building a dictatorship. (Sunnex)
\nhttp:\/\/www.sunstar.com.ph\/manila\/local-news\/2012\/01\/04\/house-violated-own-rules-after-hiring-private-prosecutors-198795<\/p>\n

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