{"id":103694,"date":"2017-05-23T20:17:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T00:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103694"},"modified":"2017-05-23T20:17:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T00:17:30","slug":"makati-rtc-judge-is-new-sandiganbyan-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/23\/makati-rtc-judge-is-new-sandiganbyan-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Makati RTC judge is new Sandiganbyan justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103573\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SAN-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103573\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SAN-1.png\" alt=\"The Supreme Court on Tuesday received Caldona's appointment through a transmittal letter signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.(Photo: Philippine News Agency)\" width=\"221\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SAN-1.png 221w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/SAN-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday received Caldona&#8217;s appointment through a transmittal letter signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.(Photo:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\"> Philippine News Agency<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014 President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 65 Judge Edgardo Caldona to the Sandiganbayan as Associate Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday received Caldona&#8217;s appointment through a transmittal letter signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.<\/p>\n<p>Caldona will fill the post vacated by Associate Justice Jose R. Hernandez who retired in November last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Sandiganbayan has seven divisions composed of a presiding justice and 20 associate justices.<\/p>\n<p>Caldona became a Pangasinan RTC Judge prior to his present position.<\/p>\n<p>Caldona, an Ateneo De Manila University alumnus, served as a lawyer in the Sandiganbayan at the office of Justice Sabino De Leon.<\/p>\n<p>He later on worked as court attorney of the Supreme Court under then Chief Justice Renato Corona.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other contenders for the post are Caldona&#8217;s fellow Makati RTC judges, Maryann Corpus-Manalac and Honorio Guanlao Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the shortlist of candidates for the post are Aparri, Cagayan RTC Judge Oscar Zaldivar and Bayani Jacinto, a Director from the Office of the Ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014 President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 65 Judge Edgardo Caldona to the Sandiganbayan as Associate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[19450,19451],"class_list":["post-103694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-makati-rtc-judge","tag-sandiganbayan-justice","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}