Mendoza: We don’t have monopoly of judicial perfidy

Monday, January 9, 2012

WHO said it only happens in the Philippines?

Who said only our own Supreme Court can commit a flip-flop?

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Only in the Philippines, huh?

Think again, fellas.

Even in great and glorious America, they also do it.

I specifically refer to Melissa Saragosa.

The judge of a Clark County court in Las Vegas, Nevada, has overturned her decision to
jail Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Meaning, Saragosa stopped the jailing of Mayweather on Jan. 6, which she herself had ordered last month.

Fickle as the weather, they say of some women?

Saragosa had changed her mind and ordered Mayweather jailed on June 1.

“I realized that Mr. Mayweather has contractual obligations to meet, thus the need for me to change the date of his incarceration,” said Saragosa—or words to that effect.

It’s a decision as mind-boggling as Renato Corona’s insistence to duke it out with P-Noy.

If that happened here, Saragosa might suffer the brunt of a public outcry denouncing
her flip-flopping boo-boo.

For, what “contractual obligation” did Mayweather enter into?

Saragosa said Mayweather had a contract to fulfill on May 5, thus the need to postpone his jailing on domestic violence charges.

But all that Mayweather did was reserve the MGM Grand Hotel for a fight of his on May 5.

Who he will fight, he has yet to sign a contract attesting to it. He didn’t even name the fighter he’d allegedly face on May 5.

Manny Pacquiao, you say?

Impossible.

One, Pacquiao has a pending case of defamation against Mayweather.

Two, the 28 stitches to close an eyebrow wound Pacquiao had suffered in his Nov. 13 fight with Juan Manuel Marquez have yet to heal completely.

Three, Bob Arum, Pacquiao’s promoter, is looking for a Pacquiao-Mayweather bout in November. Not May.

I wonder how Mayweather’s former girlfriend, the offended party, reacted to Saragosa’s sudden change of mind.

If it was here, Saragosa might have seen herself being subjected to public ridicule, if not accused of having been bribed.

Ah, we do not have a monopoly of judicial perfidy.

(alsol47@yahoo.com)