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                    [Title] => Ecleo parricide hearings reset
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The judge hearing the seven-year-old parricide case against cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. yesterday scheduled new hearing dates starting March.

[DatePublished] => 2010-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 337467 [Title] => Ecleo's lawyers ask court to dismiss parricide case [Summary] => Lawyers of Ruben Ecleo Jr. yesterday moved for the dismissal of the case against their celebrated client, claiming that evidence against him were fabricated by the police in a plot allegedly backed by his political enemies who have been out to destroy him.

In their 155-page demurrer to evidence, lawyers Orlando Salatandre and Giovanni Mata argued that Ecleo's political opponents in Surigao del Norte took advantage of the indictment to avenge their defeat in the guise of seeking justice for Ecleo's wife, Alona, who was murdered in 2002.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 332745 [Title] => Defense lawyers say: Manila doctor can back Ecleo's claim of illness [Summary] => Parricide suspect and cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. yesterday asked the court to summon his Manila-based doctor to testify that he is unhealthy.

Ecleo, through his lawyers Orlando Salatandre and Giovanni Mata, filed a four-page motion urging Regional Trial Court judge Geraldine Faith Econg to let Roberto Anastacio appear before her with his medical records.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330541 [Title] => Ecleo Case: Prosecution wants the court to admit 36 pcs of evidence [Summary] => The lawyers handling the prosecution of the parricide case filed against cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr. yesterday formally asked the court to admit the 36 exhibits that were earlier rejected because of technicalities.

The prosecution claimed that the concerned evidences are all admissible and that their admission would help in obtaining justice for both the prosecution and the accused.

But it is expected that defense lawyers Orlando Salatandre and Giovanni Mata will oppose the move.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 328612 [Title] => RTC judge Econg decides today on fate of prosecution's evidence [Summary] => Regional Trial Court judge Geraldine Faith Econg will decide today which of the prosecution's exhibits will be accepted as evidence in court for the parricide case against cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr.

The prosecution, composed of lawyers from the Integrated Bar of The Philippines-Cebu City chapter, earlier submitted several pieces of evidences hoping that the court will accept all of these to ensure the conviction of Ecleo for allegedly killing his wife Alona in 2002.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097538 [AuthorName] => Rene U. Borromeo [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267765 [Title] => Cebu judge to use videocam in court proceedings [Summary] => CEBU — Starting Jan. 17, Regional Trial Court Judge Geraldine Econg, who is handling the parricide case against cult leader Ruben Ecleo Jr., will use a video camera to record all court proceedings in her sala.

She said this will be for recording purposes and for her to know who are entering her chambers.

This, as she scheduled a hearing that day to tackle the motion for inhibition filed by Ecleo’s lawyers against her.
[DatePublished] => 2005-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804727 [AuthorName] => Joeberth Ocao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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