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VP Sara Duterte Defense Uses Technicality to get her off the hook
This fourth day of the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte is revelatory. What the defense and their political allies want to achieve...
Grave Threats Under Article 282 of the Revised Penal Code: Elements, Jurisprudence, and Application in Philippine Criminal Law
The crime of **grave threats** under Article 282 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC) seeks to protect an individual's life, honor, and property from intimidation through threats involving the commission of a crime. The law recognizes that the mere communication of an intention to commit a criminal act can inflict fear, anxiety, and psychological harm upon another person, even before the threatened crime is actually carried out. Thus, Philippine criminal law penalizes threats independently of the execution of the threatened offense.
Filipina Tennis Star Alex Eala Receives Hero’s Welcome Upon Return to the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Cheers, applause, and waving Philippine flags greeted Filipina tennis sensation Alex Eala as she arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport on...
NBI Exec says Duterte threatened Marcos at least six times, tells Impeachment Court
MANILA, Philippines— An official of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) testified on the fourth day of Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial Monday...
Impeachment Is About More than Criminality. It is about conduct.
A constitutional impeachment is not simply a criminal proceeding conducted inside the halls of Congress. It is a constitutional mechanism designed to protect public institutions from officials whose conduct renders them unfit to continue exercising the extraordinary powers entrusted to them. Whether an impeachable officer committed a prosecutable crime is certainly relevant. But it is not the sole measure by which the Constitution demands accountability.