Evading the tentacles of justice
LAST week a Muntinlupa court archived the murder case against former Bilibid Prisons Director Gerald Bantag and his deputy Ricardo Zulueta.
The case is in...
Miranda’s right
MARVIN Miranda is among the persons currently held in detention for the slaying of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo on March 4, this year.
Miranda...
Scripted buy-bust arrests
CONGRESSMAN Romeo Acop concludes that the police officers who apprehended their colleague Sgt. Rodolfo Mayo during a buy-bust in Tondo last year did so...
Invaded by shabu
SOME important facts have been revealed in the ongoing congressional investigation into the massive drug haul in Tondo, Manila that netted a ton of...
Beware of online illegal recruitment
LAW is created to regulate behavior.
The freedom to act can sometimes impact negatively on others. Society responds by enacting laws that penalize errant behavior.
Illegal...
Philippine ICC defense gasping for substance?
THE APPEALS chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to rule on the appeal interposed by the Philippines against the decision of...
The botched prosecution vs De Lima
IN ITS decision acquitting former senator Leila de Lima, the Muntinlupa court conceded that illegal drug trading exists from within the confines of the...
Drug syndicates have grown stronger
WHEN he was in Washington last week President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. admitted that abuses were committed in the war on drugs waged by Rodrigo...
Abductions and the police quota system
REP. BONIFACIO Bosita of the 1-Rider party-list bared last week that police officers are under orders to follow a quota system in the arrest...
Why dribble the case against de Lima?
NOT A FEW kibitzers almost fell off their seats when Secretary Crispin Remulla of the Department of Justice said the prosecution will oppose the...