{"id":12927,"date":"2014-05-31T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12927"},"modified":"2014-05-31T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:13:10","slug":"sandiganbayan-acquits-manila-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/31\/sandiganbayan-acquits-manila-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandiganbayan acquits Manila prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12928\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sandigan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12928\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sandigan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sandiganbayan \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sandigan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sandigan.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandiganbayan \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 A Manila assistant city prosecutor was acquitted by the Sandiganbayan from a graft case file against for allegedly lying about her properties in her Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Networth (SALN).<\/p>\n<p>On a 23-page decision, the anti-graft court absolved Manila Assistant City Prosecutor Evelyn Brul Cruz of all three counts of perjury under Article 183 of the Revised Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>The three cases were filed by the Office of the Ombudsman for Cruz\u2019s alleged wrongful declarations in her SALNs in 1999, 2000, and 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The acquittal was warranted \u201cfor failure of the prosecution to prove beyond reasonable doubt the guilt of accused Evelyn Brul-Cruz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court said that while Cruz admitted discrepancies in her SALN declaration, she asserted that she did it in good faith \u201cbecause her children and step children have a share in the said properties, and that during those years the estate of her late husband Carlos G. Cruz has yet to be settled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision penned by Associate Justice Oscar Herrera Jr. and concurred in by Associate Justice Napoleon Inotura and Second Division Chairperson Teresita Diaz Baldos, further noted that \u201cafter a careful and meticulous scrutiny of the evidence abduced, the Court rules that accused Cruz is entitled to an acquittal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 A Manila assistant city prosecutor was acquitted by the Sandiganbayan from a graft case file against for allegedly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[3064,4368,1594],"class_list":["post-12927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-graft-case","tag-manila-prosecutor","tag-sandiganbayan","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}