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After seven years, former Senator Leila de Lima is cleared of all drug charges against her as a Muntinlupa court on Monday granted her demurrer to evidence, effectively dismissing her third and final drug case.“Demurer is granted,” Atty. Boni Tacardon, De Lima’s legal counsel, said in a message to reporters.De Lima filed her demurrer in March, where she asked the court to acquit and declare her not guilty for failure of the prosecution to prove her guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
They said that the court had declared that the prosecution's evidence was unable to prove her alleged complicity in the drug case when it granted her application for bail.The former senator was freed on bail in November 2023 after being detained in Camp Crame since February 2017 over drug allegations.Her first acquittal came in February 2021 when the Muntinlupa City RTC-Branch 205 junked one of her three cases.
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