State lawyers on floating drug lab conviction: 4 Chinese should also be guilty of manufacturing 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Jeffrey DamicogState prosecutors have expressed concerns that the court ruling, which found four Chinese nationals caught at a floating shabu laboratory in 2016 guilty of narcotics possession but acquitted of drug manufacturing, could be used as a defense by other drug suspects. “So, if that is the reasoning, that it’s not operational, then the court is actually giving exculpatory excuse in any future drug manufacturing,” he said. On the other hand, Navera admitted that the four will still get life imprisonment should they also be convicted also of manufacturing illegal drugs. Read more: Life sentence for 4 Chinese in Subic floating shabu lab

Source: Manila Bulletin December 15, 2018 04:30 UTC