{"id":7801,"date":"2023-02-13T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:01:02","slug":"leila-de-limas-trial-could-be-resolved-by-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/leila-de-limas-trial-could-be-resolved-by-march-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Leila De Lima’s trial could be resolved by March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

After nine years in prison, <\/span>following a Supreme Court ruling, <\/span>former aide of the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Jessica “Gigi” Reyes was released from prison on January 19, 2023. Reyes was involved in a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal (<\/span>“pork barrel”<\/span><\/a>) and was imprisoned since July 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The court decision also opens new perspectives in the case of long-time prisoner and former senator Leila de Lima. Reyes had filed a petition for the <\/span>writ of habeas corpus<\/span><\/a>, which allowed her to bring her case to court to determine the lawfulness of her detention. A new form of writ of habeas corpus was created through the ruling in Reyes’ case that can be invoked by other petitioners such as de Lima.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dino De Leon, one of De Lima’s lawyers, emphasized that there is no longer a sufficient <\/span>legal basis<\/span><\/a> against his client. Several witnesses in her case have already withdrawn their testimonies. Currently, De Lima is awaiting the court’s decision on two petitions for <\/span>release on bail<\/span><\/a>. It is likely that a petition for writ of habeas will be submitted. Her attorneys also believe that De Lima’s ongoing trial could be <\/span>resolved<\/span><\/a> by March 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After nine years in prison, following a Supreme Court ruling, former aide of the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Jessica “Gigi” Reyes was released from prison on January 19, 2023. Reyes was involved in a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal (“pork barrel”) and was imprisoned since July 2014.\u00a0 The court decision also opens new perspectives in the case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freedom-of-press","category-human-rights-news","category-internal-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7848,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions\/7848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}