{"id":124873,"date":"2017-10-19T01:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=124873"},"modified":"2017-10-19T01:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T05:04:32","slug":"aegis-juris-met-in-hotel-majority-tried-to-avoid-probe-mpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/19\/aegis-juris-met-in-hotel-majority-tried-to-avoid-probe-mpd\/","title":{"rendered":"Aegis Juris met in hotel, majority tried to avoid probe: MPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_124885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124885\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MPD-Police-Station-near-the-Manila-Hotel-and-Quirino-Grandstand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124885\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MPD-Police-Station-near-the-Manila-Hotel-and-Quirino-Grandstand.jpg\" alt=\"MPD Police Station near the Manila Hotel and Quirino Grandstand (Photo by Jun Sanchez - http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/15636522\/Manila-Police-District#\/photo\/1122780, CC BY 3.0)\" width=\"550\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MPD-Police-Station-near-the-Manila-Hotel-and-Quirino-Grandstand.jpg 550w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MPD-Police-Station-near-the-Manila-Hotel-and-Quirino-Grandstand-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MPD Police Station near the Manila Hotel and Quirino Grandstand (Photo by Jun Sanchez &#8211; http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/15636522\/Manila-Police-District#\/photo\/1122780, CC BY 3.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 Manila Police District (MPD) head, Supt. Joel Coronel, said Wednesday that Facebook chat conversations among some Aegis Juris fraternity brothers showed that they met in a hotel and discussed attempts to &#8220;cover up, conceal and evade&#8221; investigation and prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>During the second hearing on the hazing death of University of Santo Tomas law student Horacio \u201cAtio\u201d Castillo III, Coronel presented the chat conversations among frat members on September 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>Coronel said the Aegis Juris Fraternity issued a statement, saying they will cooperate in the investigation. However, some 30 personalities showed attempts to protect their members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the frat\u2019s claim of cooperating with investigators, they gave investigators no support or cooperation,\u201d Coronel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome wanted to face the problems, but a great majority advocated that they avoid prosecution, having concerns for their fraternity brothers involved,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said that of the 30 personalities, the MPD identified 19 who met at Novotel Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Among the personalities identified was law student Jose Miguel Salamat, who was asked by senators to name others present during their meeting but he said he could no longer remember.<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court Office of the Bar Confidante lawyer, Ma. Cristina Layusa, who was present during the hearing, said the grounds for disbarment can be found in the code of conduct for lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>As for non-lawyers, Layusa said students are allowed to take the bar exams but once they pass, they will not be allowed to take their oath unless the cases against them are dismissed.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 Manila Police District (MPD) head, Supt. Joel Coronel, said Wednesday that Facebook chat conversations among some Aegis Juris fraternity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":124885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[24595,28441,28442,28443],"class_list":["post-124873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-aegis-juris-fraternity","tag-manila-police-district-mpd","tag-supt-joel-coronel","tag-university-of-santo-tomas-law-student-horacio-atio-castillo-iii","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124873","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=124873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}