{"id":37732,"date":"2015-01-08T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T07:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=37732"},"modified":"2015-01-08T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T07:14:58","slug":"family-of-laude-calls-on-doj-to-junk-pembertons-petition-for-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/08\/family-of-laude-calls-on-doj-to-junk-pembertons-petition-for-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Laude calls on DOJ to junk Pemberton\u2019s petition for reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29389\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Joseph-Scott-Pemberton-Jennifer-Laude-e1413782882847.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29389\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Joseph-Scott-Pemberton-Jennifer-Laude-e1413782882847.jpeg\" alt=\"US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton (left) and Jeffrey &quot;Jennifer&quot; Laude\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton (left) and Jeffrey &#8220;Jennifer&#8221; Laude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Olongapo City \u2013 A thirty-three page comment has been submitted to the Department of Justice (DOJ) by the family of slain transgender Jeffrey \u201cJennifer\u201d Laude, calling on the department to throw out the petition for review filed by the camp of US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton; Laude\u2019s alleged murderer<\/p>\n<p>The family stated in the comment that there was no basis for the petition filed by Pemberton\u2019s legal camp, and that the counsel of the accused was only seeking the dismissal of murder charges filed against the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to the allegations of respondents, the presentation of all pieces of evidence in this case was made in accordance with rules governing preliminary investigation. Sufficient credible pieces of evidence clearly established that a crime of murder has been committed and that (Pemberton) is probably guilty thereof and should be held for trial,\u201d the comment stated.<\/p>\n<p>Via the comment, Laude\u2019s family appealed to DOJ Secretary Leila de Lima to uphold the resolution filed by the Olongapo City Prosecutors\u2019 Office against Pemberton, who was charged with murder before Branch 74 of the Olongapo City Regional Trial Court (RTC) in December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The court had earlier granted Pemberton\u2019s side a 60-day suspension of the hearings top allow the DOJ time to review the US serviceman\u2019s petition, which claimed that he was deprived of due process, and that there was no sufficient evidence against him.<\/p>\n<p>Laude\u2019s family, however, is adamant that the prosecution panel, led by City Prosecutor Emilie Fe Delos Santos, was accurate in their findings that there is probable cause that Pemberton committed the murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olongapo City \u2013 A thirty-three page comment has been submitted to the Department of Justice (DOJ) by the family of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37732","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=37732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}