Quote Originally Posted by earthlyken View Post
Hello Sir JM,

Just want to share, last February, my friend, his brother and father got into a fight with their neighbor which result in physical injury, they went thru barangay and eventually sa court, the other party charged them with frustrated something (not sure with the term), then they got to the arraignment part, my friends has no attorney, so their hearing rescheduled for 3 times that's 3 to 4 months interval, no on their 3rd hearing they still don't have a lawyer then the judge appoint them a PAO lawyer and was advised to just plead guilty, so they did..

then come the 4th hearing then the judge final decision is to return the case back to the Barangay.

is that possible? and since they plead guilty, all 3 of them has derogatory records in their NBI records, but the court give them certificate that they're cleared with the charged.

so in the end, my friends, brother and their father got away with the charges filed against them, but got a record for doing so..

medyo magulo yung process ng decision, question here is where is the Justice?

Am just sharing and also comparing this scenario with mine, cause with them, complainant has proof and evidence like medical report and proof from the people from Barangay. unlike mine, their only evidence is a grainy cctv footage with no proof that there's no scratch before i past by..

Thanks for reading.
thank you for sharing bro. let me tell you, in my experience, i have come across cases much more, for lack of better term, weirder or poignant than yours. how i wish i had all the answers. one case that really moved me was about a 4 year old girl that was raped by her own father. one day, the mother came up to me and told me that she was withdrawing the case. i shouted at her that if she would do it i would ask the dswd to take custody of her daughter and i threatened to file a case against her. i was thinking "nakikipag- areglo na ito." but, no, i was wrong. the mother cried in front of me. she told me she didn't have work, that they are poorest of the poor.
they live in an island far from the main land that she needs to spend at least php1,000 to get to court. at the time, they didn't even had breakfast that was why her daughter was very weak. that was why she could hardly talk. i was thinking how could they ever achieve justice? they are the kind of people who accept money from politicians during elections that people in this forum labeled as "BOBOTANTE."
there are so many cases like these in my court-- incestuous rape, murder, parricide, drugs cases, you name it-- and each have their own story to tell.
in your case, you man up, face your accuser. i'm sure at the end of the day, justice will be served.