DOJ to RTC: Reverse acquittal of De Lima | Joel R. San Juan

THE Department of Justice has asked the Regional Trial Court of Muntinlupa City to reverse its decision acquitting former senator Leila de Lima of the conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading inside the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City on the ground of “reasonable doubt.”

In its May 13, 2013 ruling, Muntinlupa RTC Branch 204 Presiding Judge Abraham Joseph Alcantara gave weight to Ragos’s recantation in acquitting De Lima and bodyguard Ronnie Dayan. Ragos executed an affidavit on September 5, 2016 claiming that in November 2012, as BuCor OIC and together with aide Jovencio Ablen, they delivered a black bag containing P5 million to De Lima and her bodyguard Dayan at the former’s residence in Parañaque.

The panel also cited numerous Supreme Court rulings holding that recantations of testimonies are viewed with suspicion and hardly given much weight. The prosecution also questioned the court’s failure to consider the weight of the “corroborative and uncontroverted” testimony of Ablen, who testified that he accompanied Ragos in delivering the alleged drug money to De Lima’s residence in Parañaque City.

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