SANA ALL? Ana Marie Pamintuan - via Philstar

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 Ana Marie Pamintuan - via Philstar January 23, 2023 | 12:00am



Last Thursday night, Reyes walked free from the Taguig City Jail at Camp Bagong Diwa, where she had been detained since July 2014 after the Sandiganbayan ordered her arrest for plunder together with her former boss, Juan Ponce Enrile. 


In a precedent-setting decision, the Supreme Court  (SC) granted Reyes’ petition not for bail, which had been rejected by the Sandiganbayan, but for a writ of habeas corpus, which allowed her to be freed temporarily without her shelling out a single centavo. 


Considering the glacial pace of Philippine justice, the decision could open the floodgates for similar requests from many other persons who have been rotting in jail for ages as their cases crawl through the judicial mill.


Can the ruling be applied in the case of another high-profile detainee who has languished at Camp Crame for six years now?

 

Leila de Lima was still a senator when she was arrested on Feb. 24, 2017, on three counts of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading. 


Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said on Friday that the SC ruling might apply to De Lima’s case. 


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Remulla says SC's Gigi Reyes ruling may apply to De Lima case 



Sana all?

"We can only hope that the application of what is now dubbed as the “Gigi Reyes doctrine” is not merely the latest manifestation of the Orwellian idea that some are more equal than others."


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