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                    [Title] => 'My conscience bothered me'
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The Filipina who had accused a US Marine of raping her and had at one time become the rallying point in the effort to abrogate the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement is now singing a different tune.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 367647 [Title] => DOJ lawyers confident Nicole testimony enough to convict GIs [Summary] => The testimony of the alleged victim in the controversial Subic rape case is enough to convict the four accused US Marines, government prosecutors said yesterday.

In a 36-page memorandum filed yesterday at the Makati City Regional Trial Court, senior state prosecutor Emilie Fe delos Santos and state prosecutors Lagrimas Agaran, Elizabeth Berdal, and Nolibien Quiambao said they were able to prove the accused guilty beyond reasonable doubt "with moral certainty."
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 367463 [Title] => US Marine accused of rape seeks acquittal [Summary] => The principal accused in the Subic rape case asked the court yesterday to acquit him of charges that he raped a 23-year-old Filipina on grounds that the prosecution failed to prove him guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

Lance Corporal Daniel Smith told the Makati Regional Trial Court that the woman known only as "Nicole" accused him and three other US Marines of rape to protect her relationship with an American boyfriend.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361138 [Title] => GI submits to court van driver’s statement swearing no rape took place [Summary] => The principal accused in the Subic rape case presented in court yesterday an affidavit in which the driver of the van, where a 23-year-old Filipina was allegedly raped last year, swore that no rape took place, after the driver refused to take the witness stand.

In his formal offer of evidence to the Makati City regional trial court, Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, the 21-year-old US Marine accused of raping the woman known only as Nicole, also submitted a transcript of Timoteo Soriano Jr.’s radio interview with Vice President Noli de Castro 11 days after the alleged rape.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359528 [Title] => US Marine testifies: I could hear kissing, moaning, laughter in van [Summary] => The last of the four US Marines on trial for allegedly raping a Filipina took the witness stand yesterday and testified that their accuser had consensual sex with one of them in the van where the alleged rape took place.

"I could hear kissing, moaning, laughter coming from the van," Lance Corporal Dominic Duplantis, 21, told defense lawyer Enrico Oyehara on direct examination.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 358397 [Title] => Subic rape case to be used in exchange of settlement of Bolante case? [Summary] => Unless complainant "Nicole" drops the charges and backs out of the case in exchange for a settlement, the sexual assault case against four United States Marines now being heard by the Makati City regional trial court (RTC) will allegedly be used for a "tradeoff" for the extradition of former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn Bolante.

As this developed, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said he will review a request made by Nicole and her mother that the prosecutors assigned to their case be replaced.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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