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Lack of guidance
Citing the dissent of Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, De Lima noted “the lack of guidance or standards in the majority ruling as to how to deal with similar petitions for bail.”
In his dissent, Leonen criticized the majority decision as a special treatment for an “unbelievably more fortunate” petitioner compared with other aged and sick detainees, decided on humanitarian grounds that do not even exist in the law.
Leonen said the ruling gave “no guidance to the Sandiganbayan if bail can be canceled motu proprio, or upon motion.”
The decision also lacked guidance on whether the special grant of bail based on ill health “is applicable only to those of advanced age and whether that advanced age is beyond 90 to 91 years old” or only in cases involving plunder, Leonen said.
Accused of graft and plunder over his alleged role in the P10-billion pork barrel scam, Enrile, 91, walked out of hospital detention on Thursday after the Supreme Court released its ruling.
He posted P1.4-million bail at the Sandiganbayan and was released.
On Friday, Enrile visited Revilla and Estrada at the Philippine National Police custodial center in Camp Crame to give them words of hope.
Revilla and Estrada are also accused of graft and plunder for allegedly pocketing hundreds of millions of pesos in kickbacks in the pork barrel scam. Both are under 60 and are fighting to be allowed bail.
Arroyo, 68, is suffering from cervical spondylosis and is detained at Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City on plunder charges involving the misuse of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s intelligence funds. The Sandiganbayan has rejected her petition for bail.
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