Audio file, soundcloud track embedded below (on automatic play, no need to click). Note: ANC revised its report as follows: Bong Revilla is being brought to Camp Crame where he will be booked — apparently, he wasn’t booked in Sandigan. If the PNP excludes the media from the booking process in Camp Crame — it’s the same legal opinion as stated in the audio file below: [now ANC further refined its report: he was booked in Sandigan and will be booked again in Camp Crame.(this is the problem when the news media is kept in the dark by the Court, the public gets tidbits from tidbit-reporting of reporters who have to rely on second-hand information; the Court has to find a way of providing access at the same time regulating any expected shoving from photographers)]
People’s organizations can file the criminal complaint based on the Janet Lim- Napoles affidavit if DOJ won’t budge
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Under Section 19, Rule 132 (Authentication and Proof of Documents), an affidavit is a public document which can be used for any legal purpose.
If the DOJ won’t budge, or if the DOJ Secretary is awaiting clearance from their principal, Butch Abad, ehe, este, er, from the President, who has publicly pooh-poohed the Janet Lim Napoles affidavit and the Napolist repeatedly, over and over (di ka ba madaan sa parinig), and if DOJ Sec. Leila de Lima cannot resolve her dilemma —- any citizen can file a criminal complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman against all those who feasted on their pork barrel, with prayer for a freeze order, a preventive suspension on some of the respondents pending p.i. to prevent the destruction of evidence, a subpoena for bank records and pertinent documents.
Innovative? — “What about witnesses? how will we authenticate the document? How are we going to present evidence?” — More than a decade ago, a group of lawyers together with people’s organizations filed a criminal complaint for plunder against a sitting President — a first in history. The respondent there became an accused. Was convicted. (but pardoned. but jailed before that. but now city mayor… planning a comeback … Ok, those who will file the criminal complaint can work it out)
This was before Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, we had bulky Nokia cellphones and dial-up modems that made whirring sounds and a busy signal for hours — with no historical, legal, political precedent, no template to pattern after or allow us to know what could happen next …
For sheer magnitude, hauling the respondents here could surpass that.
The Joseph Morong Report: What happens if #JanetLimNapoles becomes state witness
GMA7 News TV Channel 11/ 24 State of the Nation show, the Joseph Morong report: What happens if pork barrel queen Janet Lim-Napoles becomes state witness?
What benefits could be granted to a witness admitted to the Witness Protection Program?
This report gives an overview of the legal and practical implications of JLN being admitted to the WPP — and builds scenarios based on logical consequences of the State being obliged to give protection to a jailed accused-turned-state-witness-in-another- case: “SONA: Kalayaan at immunity, kapalit ng pagiging state witness ni Napoles” ni Joseph Morong (“State of the Nation Report: Freedom and immunity in exchange for Napoles being state witness” by Joseph Morong), GMA News TV State of the Nation show, uploaded here non-commercially for educational purposes (click video below):
