{"id":268296,"date":"2020-09-10T19:44:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=268296"},"modified":"2020-09-10T19:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:44:45","slug":"palparan-to-serve-jail-sentence-unless-pardoned-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/10\/palparan-to-serve-jail-sentence-unless-pardoned-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Palparan to serve jail sentence unless pardoned: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_268297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268297\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/palparan-sept-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-268297\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/palparan-sept-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/palparan-sept-17.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/palparan-sept-17-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan (File photo via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan has to stay in jail unless President Rodrigo Duterte decides to grant him pardon, Malaca\u00f1ang said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after former Interior Secretary Rafael Alunan III suggested Palparan\u2019s release after Duterte granted absolute pardon to US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Pemberton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a factual decision made by the (Regional Trial Court)\u00a0<em>na lumabag po siya sa batas<\/em>\u00a0(that he violated the law).\u00a0<em>Pinatawan po siya ng parusa<\/em>\u00a0(He was already sentenced),\u201d he said in a virtual presser.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said Palparan\u2019s freedom lies in Duterte\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd unless the President gives him pardon, he has to serve his sentence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Alunan said Palparan should be released since he was doing his duty fighting enemies of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTreated unfairly after killing a transvestite? Then free Jovy Palparan. He was doing his duty fighting enemies of the state,\u201d Alunan said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte on Monday defended his decision to pardon Pemberton, saying it was wrong to deny him of good conduct time allowance (GCTA) credits since authorities failed to record them.<\/p>\n<p>The President, however, said he was not favoring Pemberton by giving him absolute pardon.<\/p>\n<p>Pemberton was convicted of homicide on Dec. 1, 2015, for the killing of transgender Jennifer Laude in a motel in Olongapo City in October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Palparan has been serving his sentence at the state penitentiary in Muntinlupa City.<\/p>\n<p>He was convicted for the kidnapping and illegal detention of two University of the Philippines (UP) students in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Under Section 19, Article IV of the Constitution, the President may grant reprieves, commutations, and pardons, and remit fines and forfeitures after conviction by final judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Absolute pardon restores to the individual his civil and political rights and remits the penalty imposed for the offense of which he was convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan has to stay in jail unless President Rodrigo Duterte decides to grant him &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":268297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268296","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=268296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268298,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268296\/revisions\/268298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}