As supporters of former president Rodrigo Duterte say, you can never put a good man down.
The former president told Davao media that his camp saw the decision of the Office of the City Prosecutor of Quezon City coming.
Duterte was referring to the dismissal of the grave threat case filed by militant Rep. France Castro against him.
In a resolution signed by senior assistant City Prosecutor lawyer Ulric Q. Badiola dated January 9, 2024, it stated that “it has been held by the High Court that there is no definitive basis to determine that probable cause has been established, except to consider the attendant facts and circumstances according to the prosecutor’s best lights. No law or rule states that probable cause requires a specific kind of evidence. No formula or fixed rule for its determination exists. Probable cause is determined in the light of conditions obtaining in a given situation.”
“We expected the decision to be, ganon talaga,” Duterte said in an interview during the interment of the late Davao archbishop Fernando Capalla at San Pedro Cathedral on Monday.
The dismissal was promulgated for “want of sufficient evidence.”
When asked why he is so confident that the case will be dismissed, he replied “Fiscal ako dati eh.”
The ACT-Teachers Party-List representative’s complaint stemmed from a statement made by the former chief executive in one of the episodes of “Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa” television program.
The elder Duterte addressed critics of his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, including Castro over the confidential funds.
Meanwhile, the former president was accompanied by his common-law wife Honeylet Avanceña, Senators Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, and Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, in attending the funeral mass for the former archbishop of Davao.
Capalla passed away early morning of January 6, 2024. He was 89.
