{"id":137213,"date":"2017-12-07T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=137213"},"modified":"2017-12-07T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:53:00","slug":"revilla-must-present-counter-evidence-on-pdaf-raps-sandiganbayan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/07\/revilla-must-present-counter-evidence-on-pdaf-raps-sandiganbayan\/","title":{"rendered":"Revilla must present counter evidence on PDAF raps: Sandiganbayan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50118\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bong-revilla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50118\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bong-revilla.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Ramon 'Bong' Revilla (screenshot from YouTube footage)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bong-revilla.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bong-revilla-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ramon &#8216;Bong&#8217; Revilla (screenshot from YouTube footage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0The Sandiganbayan ruled on Thursday that detained former senator Ramon &#8220;Bong&#8221; Revilla, Jr. must still present his own evidence on his plunder case involving the Priority Development Assistant Fund (PDAF) or &#8220;pork barrel&#8221; scam.<\/p>\n<p>The court junked Revilla&#8217;s motion to allow his camp to contest the sufficiency of the prosecution\u2019s evidence in his plunder case.<\/p>\n<p>Sandiganbayan First Division Associate Justice Efren Dela Cruz made the order after he and Associate Justices Geraldine Faith Econg and Reynaldo Cruz deliberated on the merits of Revilla\u2019s motion for leave to file a demurrer to evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court is of the view that there is a need for the accused to present evidence. Therefore, the motions for leave are hereby denied,\u201d Dela Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Cruz said the defense could still file their demurrer to evidence if they wish to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Revilla\u2019s motion, the same motions of alleged mastermind Janet Lim Napoles and former Revilla aide Richard Cambe were also denied.<\/p>\n<p>Napoles is the alleged \u201cbrains\u201d behind the PHP10-billion pork barrel and the PHP900-million Malampaya fund scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014\u00a0The Sandiganbayan ruled on Thursday that detained former senator Ramon &#8220;Bong&#8221; Revilla, Jr. must still present his own evidence on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":50118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[37582,37583,37584,1594],"class_list":["post-137213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-former-senator-ramon-bong-revilla-jr","tag-priority-development-assistant-fund-pdaf-or-pork-barrel-scam","tag-revilla-must-present-counter-evidence-on-pdaf-raps-sandiganbayan","tag-sandiganbayan","mauthors-perfecto-raymundo-jr","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213","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=137213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}