While government prosecutors were able to prove the existence of the drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison, their efforts to implicate former Sen. Leila de Lima in it crumbled due to the recantation of their erstwhile star witness.
Former Senator Leila de Lima secured victory in one of the two remaining drug charges filed against her by the Duterte administration, a decision from a Muntinlupa court showed.
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State prosecutors moved to re-open the trial of former Sen. Leila de Lima, in the second drug case she is facing, after the Muntinlupa court had set its promulgation of judgment on May 12.