The legal team of former president Rodrigo Duterte has received the first set of evidence, containing some 181 items, that were the basis of the warrant of arrest issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the crimes against humanity of murder chargers against the former chief executive....
The Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office dismissed for lack of evidence the direct assault, disobedience, and grave coercion complaints filed against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security detail by Dr. Van Jason Villamor of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Health Service. Vice...
President Marcos has ordered the Justice department and police to come up with ways to ensure the safety of prosecutors in the country. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. witnesses the signing of the 2024 Department of Justice - National Prosecution Service (DOJ-NPS) Rules on Preliminary...
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) has announced that the QC Prosecutor's Office has indicted the gunman in the Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU) shooting incident last Sunday, July 24. According to the QCPD, the QC Prosecutor's Office released a three-page resolution on Wednesday, July 27,...
DAVAO CITY – Instead of a graver offense for murder, the Office of the City Prosecutor has found probable cause for the filing of homicide charges against Dr. Marvin Rey Andrew R. Pepino, suspect in the brutal shooting of a 19-year-old Grade 9 student Amierkhan Mangacop last July 2 at a bar in...
Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela partylist Rep. Arlene Brosas on Sunday demanded church leader Apollo Quiboloy, who was indicted by US prosecutors for sex trafficking, to "stop playing victim" as well as "stop likening himself" as "modern-day Joseph." Brosas in a statement said Quiboloy,...
Senator Richard Gordon has filed a measure seeking to amend the recently passed law that grants benefits to the surviving kin of deceased retired members of the National Prosecution Service (NPS). Gordon, in filing Senate Bill No. 2487, seeks to expand the survivorship benefits to also cover the...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday welcomed the signing into law of the bill granting survivorship benefits to the legitimate spouse and dependent children of the members of the National Prosecution Service (NPS) describing it as a well-deserved grant. Gatchalian said this modest entitlement is...
Detained Sen. Leila de Lima has filed an appeal with the Muntinlupa prosecutor’s office after it dismissed a complaint she filed against a prisoner for conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading. In June, De Lima filed the complaint before the Muntinlupa prosecutor’s office against Joel Capones,...
The cases of the six barangay captains found to have failed to prevent the super spreader events in their respective areas are now with the provincial prosecutors’ office, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Edurado Año said on Tuesday, June 8. In an interview over...
The House Committees on Justice and Ways and Means on Monday, May 17, endorsed the passage of the bill granting hazard pay to state prosecutors. House of Representatives (MANILA BULLETIN File photo/Alvin Kasiban) The proposed additional incentive is contained in House Bill No. 8675, authored by...
