MANILA -- Human rights lawyers on Saturday scored a Department of Justice resolution, which declared the invalid arrest of a teacher "cured" after he confessed to the media.
MANILA -- Human rights lawyers on Saturday scored a Department of Justice resolution, which declared the invalid arrest of a teacher "cured" after he confessed to the media.
"The confession cannot 'cure' the defective warrantless arrest. It appears to be a case of 'mixing metaphors,'" former Supreme Court spokesperson and Free Legal Assistance Group lawyer Theodore Te said in his social media posts. "This being said, the alleged 'voluntariness' and consequent admissibility of the uncounseled extrajudicial confession to media while captive have no effect on a clearly unwarranted warrantless arrest," he said.
In one case, the Supreme Court said: "Our ruling in that case does not, however, authorize the police to obtain confessions they cannot otherwise obtain through media reporters who are actually acting for the police." National Union of Peoples' Lawyer President Edre Olalia, for his part, pointed out several irregularities in Mas' confession, which he argued, should not be used against the social studies teacher:"1. by an arrested or “invited” person suspected, accused or charged with a supposed crime,
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