News Roundup 17 June 2022
Jun 17, 2022 • 3 min Read
Mandaluyong hit-and-run suspect no show in first hearing, ordered to answer raps | INQUIRER.NET – The Mandaluyong Prosecutors Office gave Jose Antonio Sanvicente, driver of the sports utility vehicle that figured in a hit-and-run, until Thursday next week, June 23, to answer the criminal complaints filed against him. Sanvicente facing a complaint for frustrated murder and violation of Article 275 (2) or abandonment of persons in danger and abandonment of one’s victim when he rammed his car against security guard Christian Joseph Floralde on Julia Vargas Avenue last June 5 and escaped. The case is currently undergoing preliminary investigation. The respondent, however, was absent during the first hearing of the case. During the preliminary investigation, only Sanvicente’s counsel, Atty. Danny Macalino, appeared before the prosecutors’ office. He said they would still have to secure a copy of the complaint before responding. Meanwhile, Floralde personally appeared before the prosecutors’ office. His lawyer, Atty. Federico Violena, said Floralde affirmed his affidavit and they have submitted pieces of evidence to support the complaint. “Syempre tuloy ang kaso, kailangan ng hustisya [The case will push through. We need justice],” Violena told reporters. On June 23, Sanvicente, who already surfaced at Camp Crame last June 15, is expected to personally appear before the Prosecutor’s Office to subscribe to his counter-affidavit.
Court grants De Lima’s medical furlough to undergo ‘major’ surgery | INQUIRER.NET – Senator Leila de Lima was granted a five-day medical furlough allowing her to undergo a “major” surgery. In an order, the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 204 approved De Lima’s extreme urgent motion for medical furlough from June 19 to 25 for surgery and hospital confinement as recommended by her doctor. “According to accused Senator De Lima, during her medical check-up last 05 April 2022, in one of the routine check-ups of her OB-GYN, Dra. Aida Bautista, she was diagnosed with Pelvic Organ Prolapse Stage 3 and was advised to undergo Vaginal Hysterectomy with Anterior and Posterior Colporrhany at the soonest possible time,” noted the order, a copy of which was furnished to reporters on Friday. De Lima’s personal doctor, Dr. Errol Santelices, suggested that the senator be confined for at least five days “to fully observe and evaluate the status of her recovery, and to assess if her heart condition is being affected, considering that she had a suspected Transient Ischemic Attack (mild stroke) last April 2021,” it further read. In granting her request for medical furlough, the court ordered that De lima be accompanied by proper police escorts. The Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 256, which hears the other case of De Lima, also granted the request, her office told reporters. De Lima has been detained since February 2017 over what she has repeatedly described as “trumped-up” charges against her.
Police file more complaints vs ‘Tinang 83’ | PHILSTAR.COM – Farmers and their supporters who were arrested and detained for supposedly damaging land in Concepcion, Tarlac during a cultivation activity have been slapped by police with additional complaints. Tarlac police filed Friday disobedience, obstruction of justice and usurpation of real rights complaints against the farmers and their supporters, collectively known as “Tinang 83.” The Tinang 83 are being required to appear before the Tarlac prosecutor on June 29 at 9:30 a.m. and submit their counter-affidavit to the police’s complaint. The new complaints are on top of the initial charges against the Tinang 83 of malicious mischief and illegal assembly, for which they have already posted bail which was partially funded through crowdfunding. The 83 activists, workers, and agrarian reform beneficiaries were arrested last week and were detained for three days under what rights and advocacy groups called inhumane situations. According to accounts from the police station, the detainees were put into the detention cells in shifts for lack of space. Several fainted from the heat and the close quarters. They were arrested without warrant for their “bungkalan” or cultivation work activity on land in Hacienda Tinang in Concepcion, Tarlac covered by the government’s agrarian reform program.
