{"id":19524,"date":"2014-07-19T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=19524"},"modified":"2014-07-19T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T01:31:00","slug":"court-enters-not-guilty-plea-for-gigi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/19\/court-enters-not-guilty-plea-for-gigi\/","title":{"rendered":"Court enters not guilty plea for Gigi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19060\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gigi-Reyes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19060\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gigi-Reyes-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Gigi Reyes upon arrest. Photo courtesy of Carlos Santa Maria via Twitter.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gigi-Reyes-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gigi-Reyes.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gigi Reyes upon arrest. Photo courtesy of Carlos Santa Maria via Twitter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; On behalf of lawyer Jessica &#8220;Gigi&#8221; Reyes, who was weeping after the complaint was read to her, the court entered yesterday a not guilty plea during her arraignment at the Sandiganbayan.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOn advice of my counsel your honors, I am not entering any plea,\u201d Reyes told Presiding Justice Amparo Cabotaje-Tang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She was reported to have experienced breathing difficulties and almost vomited after the proceedings which prompted the justices to have the nurses check her blood pressure and put her on a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes was a former chief of staff of Senator Juan Ponce Enrile and is also currently facing charges before the anti-graft court for her alleged involvement in the pork barrel scam.<\/p>\n<p>She, however re-filed her petition before the Supreme Court to stop her criminal indictment in the anti-graft court.<\/p>\n<p>The high tribunal \u00a0earlier rejected her pleading over a procedural defect on grounds that the relief she was asking for was not supplemental to the original petition she filed\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, the Supreme Court ruled that the dismissal was \u00a0without prejudice to seeking of proper remedy, allowing Reyes to file a new petition with the same arguments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; On behalf of lawyer Jessica &#8220;Gigi&#8221; Reyes, who was weeping after the complaint was read to her, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[4970,5156],"class_list":["post-19524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-gigi-reyes","tag-pork-scam","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524","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=19524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}