CRIMINAL charges and allegations that were filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and are being pressed against Sen. Leila de Lima constitute a “mistrial,” according to former senator Rene Saguisag. For him, he said, the allegations being aired by President Rodrigo Duterte and DOJ Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre 2nd against de Lima, a former Justice secretary, should not be tolerated. On the same day when the charges were filed, de Lima asked the Muntinlupa RTC to dismiss the cases raffled off to RTC Branches 204, 205 and 206. The former senator added that de Lima had “offended” Duterte when she investigated summary executions in Davao City when the latter was the mayor there and when de Lima was then-chairman of the Commission on Human Rights. “Because of that, [I think] de Lima enraged the then-mayor That is why this is the mistrial of the century,” Saguisag said.

Source: Manila Times February 22, 2017 10:18 UTC