{"id":16242,"date":"2014-06-21T20:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T12:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16242"},"modified":"2014-06-21T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T09:29:04","slug":"sandiganbayan-justices-vow-fairness-on-pork-scam-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/21\/sandiganbayan-justices-vow-fairness-on-pork-scam-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandiganbayan justices vow fairness on pork scam trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14228\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SandiganBayan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14228\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SandiganBayan-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"Sandiganbayan Building along Commonwealth, Quezon City. Photo courtesy of DGR Law Offices.\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SandiganBayan-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SandiganBayan.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandiganbayan Building along Commonwealth, Quezon City. Photo courtesy of DGR Law Offices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; As the trial of the respondents are set to begin, Presiding Justice\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amparo Cabotaje-Tang and other justices of the Sandiganbayan pledged to maintain fairness and to uphold the right to due process of the respondents charged with plunder and graft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe will only be guided by what is on record, nothing more, nothing less,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The declaration was made during the hearing of the motions to dismiss and other pleadings of Senate\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile and his co-accused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe will not be swayed by public opinion,\u201d Tang said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the same hearing,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Associate Justice Samuel Martires made a similar pledge after hearing the oral arguments from Enrile&#8217;s camp.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Enrile, represented by his lawyer\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Estelito Mendoza, appealed for a thorough review of the cases filed against him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mendoza said that none of the evidences written in the 9,506 sheets of paper submitted by the Office of the Ombudsman would directly prove that Enrile received a total of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0P172 million in alleged kickbacks and commissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Martires said he will not be swayed by public opinion and that the public is assured that he will thoroughly be studying the cases.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI assure you, I will personally read those (documents),\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI will do my duty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; As the trial of the respondents are set to begin, Presiding Justice\u00a0Amparo Cabotaje-Tang and other justices of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[5715],"class_list":["post-16242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-sandiganbayan-justices-pledged-fairness","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242","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=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}