MERGED: All About the Corona Impeachment

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Sacked court staff says Senate verdict fair

by Jon Carlos Rodriguez, ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 05/29/2012 8:48 PM | Updated as of 05/30/2012 8:02 AM


MANILA, Philippines – Former court interpreter Delsa Flores, who was dismissed from government service for failing to disclose a minor asset in her Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth (SALN), said on Tuesday that the conviction of Chief Justice Renato Corona showed that “justice is fair.”

Flores was removed from her post in the Regional Trial Court Branch IV in Panabo, Davao in 1997 for failing to declare in her SALN an ownership of a stall in a public market.

“I’m so proud of the 20 senator-judges, I’m sorry to say this. Nakita nila na talagang kung maliit lang ang SALN para sa kanila, sa akin malaki. I wasn’t able to work, 15 years na akong walang trabaho,” she told ABS-CBN’s “TV Patrol.”

“He [Corona] is the highest in our court, Supreme Court employee din ako. Tapos siya nahatulan, ako na maliit lang nahatulan din, patas lang pala kami,” she added.

Corona, the country’s chief magistrate, faced similar charges for failing to truthfully disclose his dollar deposits and most of his peso assets in his SALN as required by the Constitution.

In a vote of 20-3, Corona was found guilty by the Senate impeachment court on Tuesday for betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution.

Explaining their votes, several senator-judges who voted for a conviction cited the case of Flores and several other public officials who were dismissed for violating the SALN Law.

Senator Sergio Osmeña III, who found Corona guilty, said the impeachment court must show the public that law is applied "equally to the rich and to the poor, to the powerful and the powerless.”

Senator Frank Drilon also cited Flores’s case, saying the “chief justice must be held to a much higher standard.”

The 3 senator-judges who found Corona innocent were Joker Arroyo, Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

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A pyrrhic victory for Aquino

By: Rigoberto Tiglao

The close voting in that final resolution demonstrated that if Corona had resigned—and with the appointment of a new Aquino justice and the rest effectively terrorized—the Court’s earlier decision in July and November 2011 for a P196-million land compensation would have been revised, for a P10-billion payment the Cojuangcos wanted.

The Chief Justice was purportedly the protector in the high court of former President Gloria Arroyo—an ignorant accusation as the tribunal is a collegial body.

haha sige pa diay ni siya sa payroll ni gloria?
mao diay ni siya source sa mga anti PNoy diri.
mao siguro ni ilang head unya si Bobit Avila maoy chairman dinhi sa Cebu.

nindota kaha makigpustaanay ko ni Tiglao nga dili si Drilon maoy ma chief justice.

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LOCKED

enough with this. Move on, quit squabbling over things that has been resolved.