Extrajudicial confessions
Colmenares said that “under the doctrine of res inter alios acta
nocere non debit embodied in Section 28, Rule 130 of the Revised Rules
of evidence, the extrajudicial confessions of the four witnesses who
implicated Ocampo cannot bind Ocampo. Why would one go to prison
because some one else committed a crime.
Recycled case
The Bayan Muna leader also said that an earlier criminal case at the
Regional Trial Court Branch 14 in Baybay, Leyte used the same bones
and skeletons now being paraded as evidence in the case against
Ocampo.
Said Colmenares: “The military is liable for concocting a new story,
and resurrecting an old, dismissed case. General Esperon even had
photo-ops in the alleged mass grave that turns out to be a big, stupid
act of fraud.”
“Five of persons claimed to have been the victims in the Baybay, Leyte
case are also listed as victims in the Hilongos case. How can one
person be buried in two separate graves?” Colmenares asked.
Colmenares said that “The Baybay court dismissed that earlier
complaint. The military led by Gen. Esperon are so despicable and
callous to the Filipino respect for the dead when they appeared to
transferred, recycled and made a spectacle of the alleged mass grave
in Hilongos,” said Colmenares. ###
Reference:
Atty. Neri Javier Colmenares
Bayan Muna General Counsel and Third Nominee
Mobile No. 0920-9509406
