FLAG lawyers cite a Supreme Court decision from 1990 which says that the Office of the Solicitor General only participates in a criminal case when it has 'reached the appellate courts.'
SEDITION COMPLAINT. Lawyer Larry Gadon accompanies Peter Joemel Advincula aka Bikoy to the Department of Justice on August 9, 2019, for the start of the inciting to sedition hearing against opposition leaders. File photo by Angie de Silva/Rapplerree Legal Assistance Group formally moved to disqualify the Office of the Solicitor General from the ongoing preliminary investigation at the Department of Justice into the inciting to sedition complaint filed against key opposition figures.
Te, Diokno, and Tañada are all respondents in the complaint for allegedly participating in the so-called Project Sodoma that supposedly seeks to take down President Rodrigo Duterte's government. The CIDG's main witness is Peter Joemel Advincula alias Bikoy, who has madeThe DOJ investigating panel has already asked the OSG to justify its authority to act as lawyer for the CIDG.
Former solicitor general Florin Hilbay, also a respondent in the complaint, cited the primary mandate in saying that the OSG only comes in when the case has reached the appeals level at the CA or the SC.
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