If Corona meant to prove his innocence, why did he not allow himself to be cross-examined? Why did he risk antagonizing the court? If this was all part of a script, where is it headed? This brazen display of supreme discourtesy in the course of what was supposed to be a straightforward defense left everyone wondering what this performance was all about. The result was a politically masterful conversion of a courtroom trial into a press conference.
He addressed himself not just to the court sitting in judgment but also to the public out there. In the guise of answering point by point the charges hurled against him, and providing context to the stories that had been written about him and his wife’s family, he delivered a long and emotional narrative testimony. As such, his first duty was to abide by court room procedures. But he is the highest magistrate of the land. If he were not a lawyer, he might be forgiven for this serious breach of judicial norms. Instead of testifying under direct examination, he was allowed to deliver an oration filled with innuendoes, hearsay and irrelevant asides, despite the objections of the prosecution. The Chief Justice took advantage of the court’s forbearance by speaking freely and denouncing his accusers. Let us be clear about what happened here. The court will proceed to issue its verdict against the background of their client’s unprovoked disrespect for the court. If they did not, then they will have failed in their duty to protect the interest of their client. If they did, they could be cited for contempt of court. Whether they knew beforehand what their client was going to do is anybody’s guess. His lawyers will say his medical condition prevents him from completing his testimony. I personally doubt the Chief Justice will go back. Corona was rushed to the Medical City (hospital) after being finally allowed to leave the Senate premises, and the latest news is that he is still under observation in the intensive care unit. Still bristling with anger, Senator Enrile adjourned the session and ordered the defense to produce their witness the next day under pain of having his entire testimony stricken off the record if he fails to return to answer questions. He had skipped lunch, he said, and the sudden drop of glucose in the blood had put him in a state of confusion.Ĭlearly, at that point, the Chief Justice was no longer in a position to be cross-examined on his testimony. His son-in-law, a medical doctor, said the Chief Justice, who suffers from diabetes, had left the session hall because he began to feel the onset of a “hypoglycemic episode” and was about to faint. His tie loosened, his gray coat taken off, he wore a faraway gaze and seemed lost in stupor. Sensing a betrayal of the goodwill the court had generously extended to the witness in recognition of his lofty position, the Senate president sternly ordered a lockdown of the Senate building to prevent the unauthorized departure of the Chief Justice.īlocked from leaving, the Chief Justice was brought back on a wheel chair half an hour later-a picture of sullen incommunicability, the flipside of the voluble rhetorical warrior who, just moments earlier, growled with righteous indignation against his detractors and perceived enemies. The venerable lawyer mumbled excuses, pleading that his client had been under tremendous stress, and asked permission to run after him. There are many prophecies in the Bible whose proper interpretation depend on "The Witness of the Stars" in order to accurately be known.Stunned by this turn of events, Senator Enrile asked defense counsel Serafin Cuevas if the Chief Justice was coming back. These earliest beliefs and primordial faith and expectations were recorded and preserved from the mythological Inner-African Genesis of Humanity documented in the Denderah of the Egypts to latter-day Greek reinterpreted mythologies, all without doubt traced to Messianic hopes and aspirations of native and the primitive peoples of the world. Bullinger contains, from a Western Gentile branching of the Judeo-Christian perspective, in principle and in fact, one of the earliest, quite extensive for its 1893 original publication, (and now clearly a most faithful summary of the received precepts and traditions concerning the celestial witness), and a credible testimony to the "glorious Gospel of the Christ," as it was known in Ancient times. The book entitled, "THE WITNESS OF THE STARS," by Dr. We guarantee you will have a great experience with us. It makes their books completely unreadable. Be rest assured about the quality of our books. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars.