Ano ba kayo? hanngang ngayon ba hindi pa rin sa inyo maliwanag kung bakit mi IMPEACHEMENT? dahil gustong mawala ng pamilya COJUANGCO-AQUINO,iyang si Corona sa Supreme court kasi malaking tinik sa kanila iyan, Ngayng natalo na sila, mas lalong nagu*l*l ang galit nila ki Corona. Naniniwala ba kayo sa TUWID NA LANDAS? Pure BS iyan!

atty. jimeno should not have sided with a person whose appointment as highest arbiter of the land, she herself questioned. i thinkk they call it delicadeza.

The defense team is working for free. What I've heard last time the reason they worked for free is because they want to be part of the history.

For me their reason of working for free is somehow to selfish. Would thy work for free to defend those people who doesn't have money.

Begging to differ, troll. Corona's appointment in 2010 may have been midnight but it sure wasn't out of bounds. If Corona was even halfway decent then, he should've begged off his appointment by Mrs Arroyo so that the incoming president, BSA III, would have had a free hand appointing his choice for chief justice. Arroyo did not afford him (Pnoy) that courtesy and look who's sore about it. Corona was Arroyo's foil just in case the s*** hit the fan, and boy, it did.

What happens when the proceedings go into article 1 then? Baka ipatawag pa sya ng prosecution as witness, hingin ang opinion nya kung bakit sa tingin nya nung 2010 eh hindi dapat tinanggap ni Corona ang appointment as CJ.

The problem with this impeachment is that early on, Corona's spin doctors easily made it into an institutional battle, i.e. the supreme court vs. PNoy and the lower house. It sickens me when I hear the oft-repeated dictum that lawyers and judges should defend Corona because they are "agents" of the court and this was an attack on the court's independence. It's sad that the government branches have such a gang mentality. The impeachment turned from a fight against what was wrong (the midnight appointment and GMA's influence over court decisions) into a war between the judiciary vs the executive and part of the legislative.

I still believe that this isn't a way for the executive to force the judiciary to submit to it's whims. It's just that the judiciary has become too powerful that there has been no check and balance, Add that to the fact that the members are too easily influenced by people like GMA and Estelito Mendoza.

If we had a decent, untarnished House of Representatives, the backlash against the impeachment wouldn't be as significant as it is. However, Corona's supporters have rallied behind the "let he who has no sin cast the first stone" reasoning given the mounting evidence of Corona's ill-gotten wealth.

Admittedly, the prosecution is ill-prepared and out-classed. However, the fact of the matter is, Corona took that illegal midnight appointment and his cohorts at the Supreme Court legitimized it. Let's set aside our hatred for boorish congressmen for a while, and start cleaning house.

GO GO GO Atty Jimeno, at least pinapakita mo lang na once supreme court na ang nag decide, we need to abide and follow. .Good Luck and Keep up the Good Work. God Bless!

Two years back, Ms Jimeno was opposed to the appointment of Mr Corona as chief magistrate. Fast forward two years later and Jimeno is protecting the integrity of the judiciary more than that of an individual. Goes to show that the executive resorted to the scatter gun approach in its obsession to convict the chief justice, kasi tinamaan din ang institusyon ng hudikatura. That's why the prosecution in this case is turning out to be the laughing stock because of their ineptness in the ongoing trial. They had the gall railroading the House to sign a half baked article of impeachment all the while crossing their fingers that Corona will just quit like Merceditas Gutierrez, the former Ombudsman, did even before her impeachment case got to the Senate, but Corona called their bluff and decided to still play the cards he's dealt with because they might as well have nothing on him. Congress exercised hubris on this one, it might as well be abolished.

@lurker. "the ability to rationalize even when you've started contradicting yourself." - this is a good one! haha

@kororo do you not know that pro bono lawyers can be charge of anti graft and corruption? if ur watching the impeachment trial when cong. farinas directly point this out to defense counsel cuevas
he never react at all, even former senator saguisag pointed this out. :)

if she pulls this off, magaling ang crisis management nila. biruin mo, she's currently defending the same person whom she opposed to just 2 years ago. its not even that long ago.

She's brilliant. Imagine being able to contradict herself and then defend the fact that she is contradicting herself. I crown her the next Gloria Arroyo...only she's taller and she's beautiful.

@Kahlua. Tumpak!

Classic lawyer talent: the ability to rationalize even when you've started contradicting yourself.

"You don't need to be pure and innocent to have principles." Tama. Kahit mga criminal may prinsipyo.

the defense team works for free? they can say that...but i don't know if people will actually believe that.

I'm not pure and innocent at all. You don't need to be pure and innocent to have principles.

kororo sounded too innocent and pure in his comment! i am sorry but i dont want to buy it. come on...

From what I heard, the defense lawyers are actually not paid. They work for free. Sige, ma-baffled ka pa. Yes, we all need money but it's not everything. Meron ding mga taong marunong makuntento. Hindi lahat gahaman. May mga tao pa ring mas pinahahalagahan ang paniniwala nila't prinsipyo kaysa pera. Naniniwala ako na ano man ang resulta ng isang laban, ang mga taong may matibay na paninindigan ang tunay na nananalo.

So...she's defending a man whom she didn't respect enough to be Chief Justice in the first place? Where are her principles? Let me answer that: They're probably in her bank account. I can understand what she did. We all need money. Ang malas lang n'ya may nag dig-up ng petition na 'yan.