{"id":175345,"date":"2018-08-06T21:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T01:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=175345"},"modified":"2018-08-06T21:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T01:54:18","slug":"martires-vows-address-inordinate-delay-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/06\/martires-vows-address-inordinate-delay-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Martires vows to address &#8216;inordinate delay&#8217; of cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_175348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175348\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ombudsman-samuel-martires.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-175348\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ombudsman-samuel-martires.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martires also said the period for preliminary investigation will be shortened to only three months &#8220;unless the investigator would ask for an extension of time&#8221; for justifiable reasons. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Newly-appointed Ombudsman Samuel Martires on Monday vowed to address the slow disposition of cases filed before the anti-graft body.<\/p>\n<p>During the budget deliberations of the House appropriations committee on the Office of the Ombudsman&#8217;s proposed PHP2.89-billion budget for 2019, Martires said his first order as the country&#8217;s new anti-graft buster would be to &#8220;dismiss all cases that are more than one year old that are undergoing fact-finding (investigation) without prejudice to the refiling of these cases and subject to prescription.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several Ombudsman cases had been dismissed by the Sandiganbayan due to inordinate delay.<\/p>\n<p>Martires also said the period for preliminary investigation will be shortened to only three months &#8220;unless the investigator would ask for an extension of time&#8221; for justifiable reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigation may not go beyond one year, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Martires also vowed fairness, stressing that he &#8220;won&#8217;t be swayed by higher-ups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since I was a trial court judge until I reached the Supreme Court, I\u2019ve been fair with the accused and complainants,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I assure you that I will not be swayed by any pressures from the higher ups,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Newly-appointed Ombudsman Samuel Martires on Monday vowed to address the slow disposition of cases filed before the anti-graft body. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":175348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175345","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=175345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}