Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Bishop Pablo Virgilio David expressed that the courts will be able to just resolve quickly the drug charges charges against detained Senator Leila De Lima.
“I can only hope and pray that our country’s judicial system can still function justly and fairly, that the judges handling her cases find the courage to bring them finally to a resolution, before all the convicted felons who have been made to testify against her would have died in the National Penitentiary,” he said in his Friday (Dec. 3) homily.
“I hear that several of the earlier judges assigned to handle her cases have inhibited themselves, obviously for fear of displeasing higher authorities, and thereby causing a further delay on any judicial decision,” he noted.
With this, he asked: “Isn’t justice delayed justice denied?”
The Caloocan bishop lamented that De Lima has “languished in jail for the past four years already while the nonbailable criminal charges against her remain under trial and unresolved.”
“She has not even been allowed to participate virtually in the hearings in the Senate, despite the fact that she is a duly-elected legislator of the country,” he added.
De Lima is facing drug charges before the Muntinlupa regional trial court (RTC) over allegations of her involvement in the proliferation of the illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP).
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