ARRESTING convicts who have been released on good conduct time allowance on the say-so of President Rodrigo Duterte violates the Constitution and the laws of the land, veteran lawyer Edgar Gica said.
While insisting that the case against Aznar was baseless to begin with, Gica said, justice has been served “in the eyes of the law.” “Why should the public be looking for him? Why should anybody be looking for them?” Gica posed, referencing Aznar and the two other Chiong convicts who had been released also on GCTA, Alberto Caño and Ariel Balansag.Herding the beneficiaries back to jail violates not only their civil rights under the Constitution, but also the laws of the land.“The President cannot order the re-arrest of the beneficiaries.
The lawyer said he cannot go to court to seek protection for Aznar from those who might want to claim a P1 million bounty “dead or alive” because all the President did was issue a statement. “But I also don’t think the police will also act on that verbal order,” he said. He hopes the presidential statement was only “spur of the moment.”He said he only read about it in the newspapers.
It is unjust to blame the beneficiaries for the outcome of the acts of executive officials like BuCor chief Nicanor Faeldon, Gica said.
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