ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS SUPREME Court Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro testified this week at the justice committee hearing of the House of Representatives for almost seven hours. And together with Court Administrator Midas Marquez, she may have inflicted irreparable damage to Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno, and sealed Sereno’s fate in the impending impeachment. Justice de Castro’s testimony came on the heels of what for some was a near-disastrous performance of the main complainant lawyer Larry Gadon. Defenders of Sereno pounced on Gadon on the single issue of bearing hearsay evidence, and of having no personal knowledge of the offenses he was charging Sereno with. Even the...
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