{"id":183999,"date":"2018-10-02T21:50:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T01:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=183999"},"modified":"2018-10-02T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T01:50:37","slug":"casing-trillanes-house-perfectly-legal-palace-asserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/02\/casing-trillanes-house-perfectly-legal-palace-asserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Casing Trillanes\u2019 house \u2018perfectly legal\u2019, Palace asserts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: TRILLANES FACES THE MEDIA. Senator Antonio Trilllanes IV issues a statement to the media, with Minority Floor Leader Senator Franklin Drilon (right) and Senator Risa Hontiveros (left), about the revocation of his amnesty by Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday (Sept. 4, 2018). (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday found nothing wrong with the presence of military personnel near the house of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, stressing that it was \u201cperfectly legal\u201d as long as his privacy was not violated.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque was reacting to Trillanes claim that members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) were casing his house in Antipolo City.<\/p>\n

\u201cCasing the house, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that, for as long as you don\u2019t violate the privacy of his house. Casing is perfectly legal,\u201d Roque said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n

Roque said Trillanes was being paranoid for thinking that the presence of military personnel would be a threat to his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell maybe because he felt that there was a threat on his life; we will not bother actually. So that\u2019s why it\u2019s paranoia,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n

In a Senate hearing, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Carlito Galvez Jr. confirmed that there were indeed military personnel deployed to monitor the senator\u2019s house following security threats.<\/p>\n

No application for amnesty<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roque, meanwhile, insisted that Trillanes\u2019 amnesty was voided since he could not present a copy of his application for amnesty and of records manifesting his admission of guilt for the crimes of rebellion he committed during the time of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis own received copy of the application is important, because if the copy on file cannot be found, then the best evidence to prove that in fact it was filed would have been his duly received copy,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are governed with the rules of evidence, best evidence rule, you have to prove first and foremost why you cannot produce the original document. He is unable to produce it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the lawmaker was able to leave the Senate after being holed up in its premises for weeks following the revocation of his amnesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday found nothing wrong with the presence of military personnel near the house of Senator Antonio Trillanes …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":180024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183999","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=183999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}