Still no order on DoJ’s motion for senator’s arrest

THERE’S STILL no order form Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 148 on the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) motion to issue an arrest warrant and hold departure order (HDO) against Sen. Antonio F. Trillanes IV.

But according to Makati Chief of Police S/Supt. Rogelio Simon, Judge Andres B. Soriano is at the “last stage of his work.”

Mr. Simon told reporters that Mr. Soriano “personally told me again (that) for today, wala rin, walang

lalabas (nothing will come out). He is at the last stage of his work or his assignment, ‘yung homework niya na

ginagawa (the homework he is doing).”

Mr. Soriano has admitted Mr. Trillanes’s evidence and is set to release a resolution on the motion of the DoJ for the issuance or an arrest warrant and travel ban against Mr. Trillanes for his non-bailable coup d’etat case in connection with the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny.

Meanwhile, Mr. Trillanes IV has asked the Makati RTC Branch 150 to reverse its order issuing his arrest warrant and HDO and appealed “to the sense of justice” of the court to grant his motion for reception of evidence.

In his reply to the opposition of the DoJ to his motion for reception of evidence, he said that if the motion is granted, he “will show and prove that he has fully and properly complied with the requirements for the valid grant to him of amnesty.”

“It is respectfully submitted that it is the least the Honorable Court could do before it gives its final blessing to the re-opening of this case, a case which has been dead for nearly seven years, the revival of which case would inevitably result to a long-drawn trial for a capital offense for which herein former Accused can be possibly incarcerated for a very long time,” he stated.

Mr. Trillanes’s coup d’etat case and his rebellion case in connection with the 2007 Manila Peninsula Siege were dismissed in 2011 following the grant of amnesty by former president Benigno S.C. Aquino III.