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Lawyers file indirect contempt petition vs Badoy
Lawyers file indirect contempt petition vs Badoy
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Lawyers file indirect contempt petition vs Badoy
by Ellicia Del Mundo04 October 2022
Photo courtesy: Senate Facebook page

A group of lawyers filed a petition before the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday to incite indirect contempt against former anti-communist body spokesperson Loraine Badoy for red-tagging and threatening to harm a Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge in a social media post.

The petition was filed by former Philippine Bar Association president Rico Domingo, lawyers Artemio Calumpong, Grace Salonga, Ray Paolo Santiago, Ayn Ruth Tolentino-Azarcon, Antonio La Viña, Soledad Deriquito-Mawis, Anna Maria Abad, and Rodel Taton.

“Kapag hindi natin nai-stop ito, baka bukas meron na namang babarilin. Meron na naman a-ambushin. May mga lawyers na naman tayong titirahin. Merong mare-red tag at kapag na-red tag kami, sasabihin nila ay komunista ‘yan. Kinabukasan, patay na kami,” Domingo said in an interview with the media.

In the 38-page petition, petitioners asked the SC to punish Badoy with 6 months imprisonment and a fine of Php 30,000.

The petition stemmed in Badoy’s lengthy Facebook post on Sept. 23 wherein she threatened to harm Manila RTC Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malagar after she released a decision junking the justice department’s prescription case to declare the CPP and NPA as terrorist organizations.

“So if I kill this judge and I do so out of my political belief that all allies of the CPP NPA NDF must be killed because there is no difference in my mind between a member of the CPP NPA NDF and their friends, then please be lenient with me,” Badoy earlier wrote.

She also claimed that Magdoza-Malagar is a “friend” and "ally" of the terrorist groups and accused that she was “passionately lawyering” them.

Five days later, Badoy denied that she did not, in any way, threaten Magdoza-Malagar.

“A threat is a statement of an intention to inflict pain or damage. An “if-then” statement, on the other hand, is merely a hypothetical syllogism that are workhorses of deductive logic that I needed to use to make my point,” she said in another Facebook post.

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