Jade Castro case: filing of arson charges yesterday by investigating fiscal

Jade Castro case: filing of arson charges yesterday by investigating fiscal

Respondents filed a manifestation in the preliminary investigation because they thought the investigating prosecutor would be professional.

In many jurisdictions, the police and the prosecutors are required to consider all the evidence available even if , and especially if, the evidence would exculpate the “suspects”, because their job is to do justice and not to persecute: In this case, the local government CCTV buttressed by other documentary and object evidence, place filmmaker Jade Castro and crew in Mulanay town an hour away where they were working at the time of the bus-burning occuring in another town,  Catanauan town. Yet, the police and the fiscal continue to use perjured “testimonies” from “witnesses” who pointed to the first and nearest bagong saltá (out-of-towners) they could find forgetting that their testimonies also included the perpetrators wearing hooded masks making them unidentifiable. The Catanauan town police and investigating fiscal need a refresher course not just in law, hierarchy of evidence (documentary and object evidence being superior and more reliable than “testimonial”), basic criminal investigation, but more importantly, a review of Elementary, Gradeschool, Grade 2 Physics or … The effect of planetary gravity on earthbound  objects and their movements across surfaces of towns and provinces.