not a comment

ABS-CBN News department’s Mariton Pacheco’s story on yesterday’s oral arguments was the more comprehensive and informative report for tv news: it had background, details, and what an Agence France Presse stylebook calls “so-what” or what’s-next- and- why-is-it- important.

According to the report, the Supreme Court justices kept asking for a basis; kept saying that “fraud”, “manufactured CoC’s” are factual issues; the Court is “not a trier of facts”; and Koko Pimentel replied that there were circumstances that convinced him the documents were fabricated.

Predicted, see previous blog post, Wednesday: raise jurisdictional issues; “statistical improbability”, fraudulent, and manufactured, are matters of evidence; Court not a trier of facts; you can make one nifty move by asking for discretionary judicial notice then enumerate incidents that show process can lead to nothing but fraud, then ask judicial notice/ ruling on each.

I will not comment anymore. (and that is the difference between a lawyer and a non-lawyer).