{"id":17166,"date":"2014-06-26T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17166"},"modified":"2014-08-28T23:54:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:54:12","slug":"sandiganbayan-rejects-request-to-amend-bongs-charge-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/26\/sandiganbayan-rejects-request-to-amend-bongs-charge-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandiganbayan rejects request to amend Bong’s charge sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr. with wife Lani Mercado face the public on the night before he surrenders to PNP. Screenshot of Solar News footage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA — The Sandiganbayan denied the government prosecutors’ petition to amend some information on the charge sheet for the plunder case filed against Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and four other respondents.<\/p>\n

“Formal amendments” filed in the original information filed by the government prosecutors, however, were allowed by\u00a0Associate Justice Efren dela Cruz, chair of the anti-graft court’s 1st Division.<\/span><\/p>\n

The case was filed against Revilla and four others including\u00a0his legislative staff Richard Cambe, businesswoman Janet Napoles, John Raymund de Asis and Reynald Lim.<\/span><\/p>\n

The prosecution wanted to delete the phrase\u00a0“enabling Napoles to misappropriate PDAF (priority development assistance fund) proceeds for her personal gain.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Joel Bodegon, Revilla’s lawyer made an oral motion for Revilla’s release arguing that the amendment of the original information will nullify the arrest warrant against his client.<\/p>\n

The prosecution, however, maintained that the said\u00a0\u00a0“amendment does not charge any offense but the crime of plunder.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Revilla’s camp is still waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision on the petition they filed seeking the review of the Ombudsman’s findings on the pork barrel case.<\/p>\n

“We would want the Supreme Court to take a second look at our judicial determination of probable cause,” Bodegon said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA — The Sandiganbayan denied the government prosecutors’ petition to amend some information on the charge sheet for the plunder …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[1492,6008],"class_list":["post-17166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-bong-revilla","tag-charge-sheet-amendment","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17166","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=17166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}