MANILA — The Court of Appeals has affirmed the ruling of a Makati court dismissing the coup d’etat charge against former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and denying the Duterte administration’s bid to arrest him in 2018 after the President revoked his amnesty.
MANILA — The Court of Appeals has affirmed the ruling of a Makati court dismissing the coup d’etat charge against former senator Antonio Trillanes IV and denying the Duterte administration’s bid to arrest him after the President revoked his amnesty in 2018.
The Makati court dismissed the coup d’etat charge in September 2011 based on the amnesty granted by then President Benigno Aquino III to Trillanes. “As a result, the charges against private respondent in connection with the offenses ‘forgotten’ or forgiven by the amnesty must be necessarily dropped,” it explained.
Although Trillanes was no longer part of that case, the court extended the benefit of the ruling to him and the rest of their companions.The CA ruling in favor of Trillanes over his coup d’etat case comes 3 months after the court also junked the revived rebellion case against him, which was heard before Makati RTC 150 under Judge Elmo Alameda.
Neither did it violate Trillanes’ rights to due process and equal protection of the law, the court said, since the proclamation by itself did not authorize his arrest and the supposed reason for singling him out was based on a valid and substantial distinction— his alleged non-compliance with the conditions of his amnesty.
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