A Quezon City judge stressed the repeated filing of motions by Maguindanao massacre principal accused Andal Ampatuan with similar allegations must stop as the proceedings will become ad infinitum or without ending.
This was pointed out by Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 in her six-page order junking for lack of merit Ampatuan’s motion for reconsideration asking the court to grant him again additional trial dates this August for the presentation of his sur-rebuttal witnesses.
In the said motion, the accused claimed that the witnesses he intends to present, who are the very same witnesses of the prosecution, are reluctant to testify as they fear for their lives and their families as well. Acayan cited the April 26 and May 21, 2019 orders of the court wherein it was clearly stated that the failure of the defense to present its witnesses will be construed as a waiver on its part.
“Also the court, pursuant to the oral request of his counsel, has granted the accused four settings for the presentation of his sur-rebuttal evidence with a warning that should he fail to present his evidence,” Reyes added in her order. “After presenting one witness, he again filed an urgent motion to cancel hearing…offering same reason he invoked before to reset the hearing, i.e..difficulty in obtaining the consent of witnesses to testify due to threat and issue of security of witnesses and their families,” the court further noted.
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