Published February 9, 2021, 3:46 PM
The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the graft charges filed against Camarines Sur’s former rural health physician Bernadette Galan Carlos and medical officer III Gerardo Nolasco Villafuerte in connection with the alleged anomalous security service contract entered into by the province from 2008 to 2009.
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
In dismissing the charges, the anti-graft court granted the demurer to evidence filed by Carlos and Villafuerte.
Demurer to evidence is a legal option available to an accused who can seek the dismissal of the charges against him or her on the ground that the prosecution’s evidence is weak. The plea is usually aired in a formal pleading after the prosecution has terminated the presentation of its evidence.