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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Lies the prosecution tells us

FRONTLINE
Lies the prosecution tells us
By Ninez Cacho-Olivares

Clearly, the House prosecution panel was manufacturing “evidence” against Chief Justice (CJ) Renato Corona from the start of the impeachment proceedings — even before the trial started.

With the obvious assistance of the Malacañang tenant, the prosecutors bandied about, and provided the media with the “evidence” of the 45 properties of the CJ.

The CJ denied that he had 45 properties, saying he has only five, and pointed out that the alleged list of properties was trumped up, and that there were double listings of his properties, as well as the inclusion of properties that were not even in his name.

What this proves is that the Land Registration Authority, which is under the Justice Department, with the LRA headed by a classmate of Noynoy Aquino, was in on in the black propaganda campaign, as well as his planned trial and conviction by publicity, which does not speak well at all of Noynoy, his classmate and Leila de Lima, who is fast gaining the reputation once held by her predecessor, Raul Gonzalez, of being the secretary of injustice.

But the prosecutors, led by Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., and his lying bunch of prosecution spokesmen, continued to go to town with their “evidence” and even went as far as holding a press conference.

Yet when questioned by Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Chiz Escudero on this matter of their divulging to the media the documents and passing them off as “evidence” of the “corrupt” and “unfit” Corona, both Tupas, in open court, and his lying spokesmen, denied,without batting an eyelash, that they never provided the media with the list of 45 properties.

Unfortunately for them, a TV network, due to Tupas’ and Miro Quimbo’s denial, showed the press conference where the prosecutors and the panel spokesmen were holding the press conference, and waving that list containing the alleged properties of the CJ.

Now the public knows just what liars they are in the prosecution panel, and its spokesmen. And because they have been proven to be liars, they have lost whatever credibility they thought they had, when talking about the case, as the public now knows that it is the CJ who has been telling the truth, while the prosecution has been feeding the public lies after lies after lies.

And the reason they keep on lying, trying and convicting the CJ by publicity is the fact that not only is their case against the CJ very weak but also that they have no evidence at all to prove their charges.

What they have been doing all this time, is to conduct a trial by publicity, demonize and humiliate him in a bid to make the CJ resign, which the CJ is not likely to do, since it is not only his fight, but his fight for the independence of the high court and the entire Judiciary.

Yet even as they were already counseled by the Senate impeachment court not to engage in a trial by publicity, there the prosecution spokesmen went again, on the same day, claiming that the Philippine Air Lines platinum privilege card given to the Corona spouses will prove that the CJ was the beneficiaries of favors from PAL since the Fasap case has been “overturned” by the SC.

More: Still fishing for evidence, there went the House prosecution, asking the Impeachment Court to subpoena several bank officials and their records on the bank accounts of the CJ. Just like that. And for what purpose, should they get the subpoena? To butress their claim of graft and corruption against the CJ, even when there is absolutely no charge of graft and corruption, along with the fact that even on Article 2, 2.4 has been ruled out by the Senate Court.

The purpose of course is for the prosecution to have that opportunity to parade the bank accounts as “proof” that the CJ has ill gotten wealth, which again, is not included in the Articles of Impeachment.

The way these House prosecutors speak, it is as if they are of very clean hands, when they are hardly known for their honesty and corrupt-free lifestyle.

As the CJ once said: “They are trying to make me look corrupt. I am not corrupt like them.”

True.

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