{"id":21340,"date":"2014-08-08T09:38:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T01:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21340"},"modified":"2014-08-09T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T08:54:21","slug":"court-orders-ampatuans-to-find-new-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/08\/court-orders-ampatuans-to-find-new-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Court orders Ampatuans to find new lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21183\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Maguindanao-massacre-grave-site.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21183\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Maguindanao-massacre-grave-site-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Maguindanao Massacre gravesite. Photo by Carlos H. Conde \/ Twitter\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Maguindanao-massacre-grave-site-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Maguindanao-massacre-grave-site.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maguindanao Massacre gravesite. Photo by Carlos H. Conde \/ Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Following the withdrawal of several Ampatuan lawyers from the multiple murder case, the Ampatuan camp is now ordered to look for new counsels.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Regional Trial Court Branch 221 Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes ordered 25 suspects in the Maguinadanao massacre to identify their new lawyers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;In view of the foregoing, accused are directed to immediately engage the services of new counsels who will assist them in these cases,&#8221; read the one-page order issued\u00a0last\u00a0Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fortun Narvasa &amp; Salazar (FNS) law office, Manuel law office, and Real Brotarlo &amp; Real (RBR) law firm earlier filed withdrawals of appearance in behalf of their 25 clients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RBR withdrew appearance for suspects Sajid Islam Ampatuan, Anwar Ampatuan Sr., Akmad \u201cTato\u201d Ampatuan, Anwar \u201cDatu Ipi\u201d Ampatuan, Sajid Anwar \u201cDatu Ulo\u201d Ampatuan, Nasser Esmail, Nicomedes Amad Tolentino, Bulatukan Omar Kayansang, Datutulon Malaguial Esmael and Datukan Malang Salibo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meanwhile, Gregorio Narvasa II, which represents the primary suspects Andal Ampatuan Sr. and his son Andal Jr. Lawyer Andres Manuel also filed a withdrawal of appearance for his 13 clients: Moktar Daud, Mohades Ampatuan, Misuari Ampatuan, Macton Bilungan, Tato Sampogao, Taya Bangkulat, Salik Bangkulat, Ibrahim Kamal Tatak, Norman Tatak, Not Abdul, Abedin Alamada, Morales Sisay Amilol and Talembo Kahar Abdulrahman.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Following the withdrawal of several Ampatuan lawyers from the multiple murder case, the Ampatuan camp is now ordered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[7256,4060],"class_list":["post-21340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-lawyers-withdrawal","tag-maguindanao-massacre","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21340","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=21340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}