| POLICEMEN carry one of their comrades wounded during a shootout with an alleged Abu Sayyaf detainee who took hostages at Camp Crame early Tuesday morning. A police hostage died of a gunshot wound to the head, while two other officers were killed in the latest incident to cause fresh embarrassment for the much-criticized security forces. (AFP FOTO) |
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MANILA -- The Supreme Court (SC) upheld its earlier ruling Tuesday allowing the reopening of the case filed against opposition Sen. Panfilo Lacson in connection with the Kuratong Bale-leng rubout incident in 1995.
Voting 8-4, with two justices abstaining and one on official leave, the High Court, sitting en banc, ruled that the case be remanded to and re-raffled by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Quezon City.
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