Not content with their motion for reconsideration seeking the reversal of the court’s conviction against them, businessman Cedric Lee and model Deniece Cornejo now wanted a Taguig judge out of the judiciary. Lee and Cornejo asked the Supreme Court’s Office of the Court Administrator “to administratively sanction and remove from the judiciary” Judge Bernard Bernal of the Taguig City Municipal Trial Court Branch 74 for wrongly convicting them for grave coercion filed by actor Vhong Navarro. They filed a motion for reconsideration on the judge’s decision, and also asked Bernal to recuse himself from their case. “Laureto testified Cornejo and Lee did not exert any violence, threats or intimidation on Navarro when he signed the police blotter report. But surprisingly, Judge Bernal gave weight to the [Dr. Arcena] who was not present in the same police station,” Calleja pointed out.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 21, 2018 14:03 UTC