{"id":61717,"date":"2015-09-21T01:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61717"},"modified":"2015-09-23T01:28:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:28:56","slug":"poes-lawyer-quo-warranto-case-should-be-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/21\/poes-lawyer-quo-warranto-case-should-be-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe&#8217;s lawyer: Quo warranto case should be dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41749\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Grace-poe-mamasapano-clash-senate-hearing-e1427369201310.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41749\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Grace-poe-mamasapano-clash-senate-hearing-e1427369201310.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Grace Poe at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (Photo courtesy of Sen. Grace Poe's Facebook page)\" width=\"710\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Grace-poe-mamasapano-clash-senate-hearing-e1427369201310.jpg 710w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Grace-poe-mamasapano-clash-senate-hearing-e1427369201310-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Grace Poe at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (Photo courtesy of Sen. Grace Poe&#8217;s Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The quo warranto case filed by Rizalito David against Senator Grace Poe should be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Atty. Alex Poblador, counsel of Poe, made this manifestation during the oral arguments before the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Poblador, because David did not present any evidence showing that the parents of Poe are foreigners, which will be made as basis that she is not a natural-born Filipino citizen, the case should be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Poblador argued that Poe should also be allowed to continue to sit as senator.<\/p>\n<p>When interpellated by Associate Justice Arturo D. Brion, Poblador maintained that because it is unclear to identify the real parents of Poe such that she is a &#8220;foundling&#8221;, the so-called &#8220;presumption of law&#8221; will be in her favor that she is a natural-born citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Upon interrogation by Senator Pia Cayetano, Poblador said that the so-called &#8220;preponderance of evidence&#8221; should prevail over the case wherein to weigh who presented the stronger evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Poblador told the SET that because David did not present any evidence, their decision should be in favor of Poe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The quo warranto case filed by Rizalito David against Senator Grace Poe should be dismissed. Atty. Alex Poblador, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61717","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=61717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}