A source who was at the courtroom said the prosecution’s witness, former Police Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao II, was fidgety because his lawyer, Ferdinand Topacio, was not around.
Someone told Mancao, “Hindi na darating yun. Napuyat yun kagabi. (He won’t be coming. He is tired due to to last night’s incident.”
Topacio never made it to the court that day and the hearing was postponed. He was present in subsequent hearings.
Walang mapagsidlan ang Malacañang ng kanilang tuwa sa tagumpay ng operasyon nila laban kay Sen. Panfilo Lacson ng ililabas ng judge kapahon ang warrant of arrest para sa pinakamasugid na kritiko ng pamahalaan.
Nakita nyo ba ang mukha ni Gary Olivar, deputy presidential spokesman ng nagbigay ng reaksyun sa warrant of arrest ni Lacson? Hindi maitago ang tuwa. Kunwari pang hands off. Alam naman natin kung paano pinaandar ang makinarya ng pamahalaan para lamang madiin si Lacson sa pagkamatay ni Bubby Dacer at ng kanyang driver na si Emmanuel Corbito.
Narinig ko sa radio si Ric Diaz, hepe ng National Bureau of Investigation counterterrorism unit, at siya ang namumuno sa team na maghahanap ngayon kay Lacson. Tumatawa siya sa radyo na parang nanunuya.
Sige tumawa ka. Bilog ang mundo. Kapag oras na ang amo mong utak ng maraming krimen sa mamamayang Pilipino ang hahabulin ng batas, ang taumbayan ang magkaroon ng selebrasyon.
Question: Why is former President Joseph Estrada not being charged when he was also named in the case?
by JP Lopez
Malaya
Sen. Panfilo Lacson yesterday admitted that he left the country early last month to evade what he called an “evil conspiracy” against him.
“As I had correctly suspected, the harassment by the DOJ upon the order of Malacañang will never stop. I am a victim of a conspiracy of whispers between Mrs. (Gloria) Arroyo and her stooge in the Department of Justice,” Lacson said in a statement.
Lacson said the Arroyo administration has employed “even the most tenuous of evidence to justify their own interpretation of probable cause to satisfy their political vendetta against my person.”