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1) AUGUST 12, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) STAR WITNESS DAVIDSON RUSIA IS PRESENTED FOR
THE VERY FIRST TIME.
2) AUGUST 13, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) STAR WITNESS DAVIDSON RUSIA IS PRESENTED FOR
CROSS-EXAMINATION.
3) AUGUST 17, 1998 HEARING
STAR WITNESS DAVIDSON RUSIA IS
PRESENTED FOR
CROSS-EXAMINATION FOR THE
SECOND DAY.
4) AUGUST 18, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) THE VICTIMS' MOTHER,
THELMA CHIONG IS
PRESENTED FOR
DIRECT-EXAMINATION BY THE PROSECUTION. SAYS PACO THREATENED MARIJOY A
MONTH
BEFORE HER DAUGHTERS WERE ABDUCTED. ALSO, IMPLICATES AZNAR AND ADLAWAN, BY
SAYING THAT SHE KNEW THE THREE SUSPECTS AROUND 1993 WHEN THE TRIO BROUGHT
MARIJOY HOME FROM SCHOOL A COUPLE OF TIMES.
5) AUGUST 19, 1998 HEARING
THE VICTIMS' MOTHER,
THELMA CHIONG IS CROSS-EXAMINED
BY THE DEFENSE.
6) AUGUST 20, 1998 HEARING
STAR WITNESS DAVIDSON RUSIA IS
CROSS-EXAMINED AND
THEN JUDGE ORDERS END OF CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THIS WITNESS OVER THE STRONG OBJECTIONS
OF
THE DEFENSE LAWYERS.
7) AUGUST 24, 1998 HEARING
DEFENSE LAWYERS FILES
MOTION TO INHIBIT AGAINST JUDGE
OCAMPO. THE JUSTICE DECLINES, FORCING THE LAWYERS TO WITHDRAW EN
MASSE FROM THE CASES.
THE JUDGE THEN CITES ALL OF THEM FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT AND ORDERS THEM JAILED.
8) SEPTEMBER 3, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) JUDGE OCAMPO
INSISTS TO CONTINUE THE TRIAL OVER THE PROTESTATIONS
OF THE ACCUSED THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE LAWYERS OF THEIR OWN
CHOICE.
SHEILA SINGSON, A CO-EMPLOYEE OF JACQUELINE CHIONG TESTIFIES SEEING PACO
APPROACHING
MARIJOY AT THE AYALA CENTER.
9) SEPTEMBER 7, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) DAY
TWO (2) OF THE TRIAL WITH THE ACCUSED NOT BEING REPRESENTED
WITH LAWYERS OF THEIR OWN CHOICE. THEIR COURT APPOINTED LAWYERS HARDLY
SAID
ANYTHING DURING THE DIRECT TESTIMONY OF THE PROSECUTION WITNESS, MISS
ANNA KONAHAP.
MISS KONAHAP TESTIFIED SEEING THE CHIONG SISTERS WITH LARRAŅAGA
AND AZNAR AT THE
AYALA CENTER. LIKE THE PREVIOUS WITNESS, MS. SHEILA SINGSON,
KONAHAP ALSO FAILS TO COMMENT
ON THE HEAVY RAINS THAT NIGHT.
10) SEPTEMBER 8, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) DAY
THREE (3) OF THE TRIAL WITH THE ACCUSED STILL NOT BEING REPRESENTED
WITH LAWYERS OF THEIR OWN CHOICE.
IN THIS HEARING, JUDGE
OCAMPO TRIES TO JUSTIFY HIS EARLIER RULING OF SACRIFICING
THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF
THE ACCUSED TO A FAIR TRIAL FOR THE SUPREME COURT'S
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER FOR
A MANDATORY, CONTINUOUS TRIAL.
THE PROSECUTION WITNESS PRESENTED THIS
TIME ROLANDO DACILLO, WHO UNKNOWN TO THE
COURT AT THAT TIME, WAS, AND IS STILL IS A
POLICE ASSET.
ALSO, A PATTERN ON HOW THE WITNESSES ARE TESTIFYING AGAINST
SOME OF THE
ACCUSED IS BEGINNING TO EMERGE.
11) SEPTEMBER
10, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) DAY
FOUR (4) AND STILL THE ACCUSED ARE NOT REPRESENTED WITH LAWYERS
OF THEIR OWN CHOICE.
IN THIS HEARING, JUDGE
OCAMPO ORDERS THE PRIVATE PROSECUTOR TO REPRESENT HIM AT THE
HEARING FILED BY DEFENSE LAWYER ARMOVIT WITH THE COURT OF APPEALS, PRAYING THAT JUDGE
OCAMPO
INHIBIT HIMSELF FROM FURTHER HEARING THE CASE.
AYALA SECURITY GUARD WILLIARD REDOBLES TESTIFIES.
12) SEPTEMBER
14, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) DAY
FIVE (5) AND STILL THE ACCUSED ARE NOT REPRESENTED WITH LAWYERS
OF THEIR OWN CHOICE.
IN THIS HEARING, JUDGE
OCAMPO AGAIN SPENDS A GOOD TIME OF THE HEARING DISCUSSING
ABOUT THE WALK OUT OF THE DEFENSE LAWYERS.
TWO WITNESSES ARE PRESENTED. THE FIRST, A RENT-A-CAR DRIVER BENJAMIN
COLINA, AND THE
SECOND, A BUS DISPATCHER AND ROLLING STORE OWNER, MIGUEL VERGARA.
13) SEPTEMBER
15, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) A
GOOD PORTION OF TODAY'S HEARING IS AGAIN DEVOTED TO THE OLD ISSUE
OF
THE ACCUSED NOT BEING REPRESENTED BY LAWYERS OF THEIR OWN
CHOICE.
TWO MORE WITNESSES TESTIFIED IN THE SAME CONDITIONS, MAKING AS OF TODAY,
EIGHT
PROSECUTION WITNESSES PRESENTED IN COURT WITHOUT BEING CROSS-EXAMINED BY
THE
DEFENSE. DRIVER ALFREDO DUARTE WALKED 50 METERS AT 1:30 IN THE MORNING
FROM HIS HOUSE TO
BUY BARBECUE AND BABY'S MILK; WHILST SHOEMAKER ROSENDO RIO TESTIFIED THAT
HE DELIVERED
SHOES AND SLIPPERS TO MANTALONGON VERY EARLY THAT MORNING.
THE SAME STYLE AND MANNER OF TESTIMONIES AS OF THE PREVIOUS WITNESSES
CONTINUES.
14) SEPTEMBER
16, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster) AT
THE CONTINUATION OF THE TRIAL TODAY, PRIVATE PROSECUTOR ATTY.
JOSHUA DACUMOS CONDUCTED DIRECT EXAMINATION ON PROSECUTION WITNESSES,
MARIO MIŅOZA
AND MANUEL CAMINGAO, BOTH OF WHICH ARE TRICYCLE DRIVERS BY
OCCUPATION.
15) SEPTEMBER
17, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster)
FOR THE ELEVENTH TIME, A PROSECUTION
WITNESS WAS AGAIN PRESENTED IN COURT
WITH THE ACCUSED NOT REPRESENTED WITH LAWYERS OF THEIR OWN CHOICE.
THE ACTING CHIEF-OF-POLICE
OF THE TOWN WHERE AN UNIDENTIFIED DEAD BODY OF A LADY WAS FOUND, WAS
PRESENTED BY PROS.
GALANIDA. HE WAS NEVER CROSS-EXAMINED BY ANY DEFENSE LAWYER.
16) SEPTEMBER
21, 1998 HEARING
(with comments and observations
from
the webmaster)
THREE MORE PROSECUTION WITNESSES WERE
PRESENTED DURING THIS HEARING. THE
FIRST WITNESS WAS MANUEL RODRIGUEZ, THE ALLEGED PHOTOGRAPHER. THE SECOND
WAS THE EMBALMER,
DIONISIO ENAD. AND THE THIRD, A POLICE OFFICER, SPO1 ANTONIO SABAL,
JR.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE ACCUSED WERE STILL NOT BEING REPRESENTED BY LAWYERS OF
THEIR OWN CHOICE.
IF THEY WERE, ANY LAWYER WOULD HAVE PUNCTURED THEIR TESTIMONIES FULL OF
HOLES. THE COURT APPOINTED
PUBLIC DEFENSE LAWYERS, KNOWING
THAT THEY WERE NOT THE CHOICE OF THE ACCUSED, DID NOT ACTIVELY
PARTICIPATE IN THE DELIBERATIONS.
17) SEPTEMBER
22, 1998 HEARING
(comments and observations
from
the webmaster to follow)
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