The Court of Appeals has junked with finality the plea of former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao governor Zaldy Ampatuan to be transferred from the New Bilibid Prison to a Muntinlupa hospital.
In a resolution issued on April 11, the CA Special Division of Five dismissed Ampatuan’s motion, asking the appellate court to reconsider its“All other issues raised by petitioner in the motion for reconsideration are but a mere reiteration of the issues presented in his petition for certiorari and which were already exhaustively discussed in the decision,” it said.
“This, in point of fact, negates hostility and arbitrariness on the part of the public respondent,” it added. “To repeat, with the developments in the COVID-19 situation, this Court finds the reliefs prayed for in the petition for certiorari and the instant motion moot,” it added.
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