Renato Corona Attacks Philippine Senators
Saying he had “nothing to gain but everything to lose,” Chief Justice Renato Corona slammed senators allegedly attempting to turn his impeachment trial in the Senate into an “inquisition” alongside a Palace campaign to “demonize” him.
Corona came out swinging before fellow magistrates and faculty members at the opening of a new facility at Ateneo Law School in Makati City late Friday evening.
“As if the impeachment trial were not enough, some senator-judges have taken on the role of prosecutors and have converted what should be an adversarial proceeding into an inquisition,” he said without naming names in a speech titled “Excellence in Law: Destiny of the Ateneo Lawyer.”
“I can no longer count how many of my constitutional rights have been blatantly and grossly violated,” he said.
Corona’s defense lawyers earlier sought the inhibition of Sen. Franklin Drilon, a staunch ally and party-mate of President Aquino, for helping the prosecution on a number of occasions during the trial. – source: Phil Daily Inquirer
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