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“Acting Senate Minority Leader Tito Sotto formally asked the Senate on Monday, March 2, to pass a resolution, asking the proper authority to exercise its ‘judicial compassion’ and allow Senator Juan Ponce Enrile to be detained at his residence in Makati City,” reports Maila Ager in Inquirer.net.
Enrile was rushed to the Makati Medical Center last Thu, Feb 26, due to pneumonia.
The report noted: “Enrile has been detained at the Philippine National Police (PNP) General Hospital on plunder and graft charges in connection with the pork barrel scam. Two other senators — Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla Jr. were also charged with plunder and graft and detained inside the PNP compound.”
Sotto was quoted as saying, “My thesis is, under present circumstances, justice is no less diminished should Senator Juan Ponce-Enrile be detained at his residence in Makati. He is not a flight risk and neither is he intending to be one. He was rushed to the Makati Medical Center a few days ago, maybe because our government hospitals may not be properly equipped to handle his condition. His health concerns are many given the fact that he is 91 years old.”
Sotto also added, “I am not here to plead mercy. Senator Enrile has not been convicted. I simply want to rely on our operating principles that innocence is presumed. Furthermore, upon reaching the age of seventy, even convicted criminals are considered for pardon under present rules of the Department of Justice.”
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