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The Sandiganbayan denied the plea of lawyer Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Reyes, then chief of staff of former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, to allow her non-appearance during the trials of her plunder and graft cases.
While plunder is a non-bailable offense, the Supreme Court (S
The Third Division of the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan has turned down the bid of lawyer Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Reyes, Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile’s former chief of staff, to waive her personal appearance in the trial of her plunder and graft cases in connection with the pork barrel scam.
The SC’s First Division granted Reyes’ Petition for Habeas Corpus, as it held that the plunder defendant’s confinement “though in accordance with a court order of the Sandiganbayan, has become oppressive thus infringing upon her right to liberty.”