(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Friday asked the Supreme Court to reverse its earlier decision dismissing her petition to nullify the arrest warrant in connection with her drug case.
In a 24-page motion, De Lima said the absence of a majority vote in the SC on the nature of the charges against her “is the clearest possible indicator—coming from the Supreme Court itself—that the accusation ‘is blatantly a pure invention’ and ‘a fake charge,’ to borrow from Justice (Antonio) Carpio.”
She noted that “..at least three members of the nine justices constituting the majority that voted against petitioner believe that the charges are for conspiracy to commit drug trading.”
As such, she said “it only follows that they must have concluded that respondent judge issued a warrant of arrest for an entirely different, and wrong, case.”
“To keep petitioner in continued pre-trial detention is patent abuse of judicial authority,” she said.