Joenel Sanchez and Ronnie Dayan ask the judge to inhibit, citing news that surfaced he is 'the brother' of the lawyer 'who assisted accused Dayan in the execution of his affidavit,' which was later claimed to be coerced.
In his motion to inhibit, Sanchez noted that “several news surfaced that the Honorable Presiding judge is the brother of Atty. [Emmanuel] S. Buenaventura.” According to Sanchez, Emmanuel Buenaventura was the one “who assisted Accused Dayan in the execution of his affidavit, which was later, testified to by accused Dayan to be coerced.”
De Lima’s co-accused said that the judge’s sibling also served as a legal adviser to the late lawmaker Reynaldo Umali, who used to chair the House committee on justice. The said House panel conducted hearings in October 2016, where Sanchez had been subpoenaed to testify, the motion read. Sanchez added that the presiding judge never disclosed his relationship to the lawyer Buenaventura “from the start.” The said information is “relevant and material” to the presiding judge’s impartiality and appearance of impartiality in handling the case, Sanchez added.
“We see the failure of the Honorable Presiding Judge to disclose his relationship with Atty. [Emmanuel] S. Buenaventura as a question to his impartiality and cold neutrality, and a violation of the Constitutional right of the accused to due process, which requires that the hearing is conducted before an impartial and disinterested tribunal,” De Lima’s co-accused added.the petition for bail filed by De Lima and her fellow accused.
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