He added that Enrile was “granted bail while in hospital custody, while De Lima has been incarcerated under solitary confinement for more than five years on fabricated drug charges.”ĭe Lima had declined the president’s offer to transfer her to another detention facility, but Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos said her lawyers informed him on Tuesday night that they were reconsidering it. “The ruling of the high court in Enrile was based not so much on the quantum of evidence against him or the enormity of the punishment for his criminal offense, but principally because he was not a flight risk,” Lagman said. He said the Supreme Court ruled to allow bail for Enrile for his plunder cases “since his appearance in trials is assured and he would not evade the court’s jurisdiction because of his public record, age, and frailty of health.” Juan Ponce Enrile, was not a flight risk. Like Enrileīut Lagman insisted that De Lima, like former Sen. Garafil said the president would leave it to the courts to decide De Lima’s fate. One was dismissed by a Muntinlupa City court in February 2021. A staunch critic of the Duterte administration, she is still facing two of three drug-related cases.
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