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acquittal is flawed” and that “the evidence extant supports a judgment of conviction.”
“As a lawyer, it is my position that final judgment of a competent court must be accepted no matter how one disagrees with it,” he noted.
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“In this particular De Lima case, the acquittal is flawed. The evidence extant supports a judgement of conviction,” he also said.
According to Panelo, the court was mistaken when it took former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officer-in-charge (OIC) Rafael Ragos’ recantation of his testimony as justification to doubt the guilt of de Lima.
Ragos recanted his testimony against de Lima in November 2022, telling the court that he was coerced into signing prepared affidavits on three occasions in 2016 and 2017 to say that de Lima has been receiving bribe money from drug lords at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). n
