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Impeachment trial as comedy

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
WHO says the Corona impeachment trial would be boring with all the legal gobbledygook, a classic quote by then Sen. Rodolfo Biazon during the Estrada impeachment trial in 2000, that we expect would dominate the trial?

Impeachment trial as comedy

A dearth of talent?

Editorial cartoon by Vincent Go.
ON Day 2 of the current impeachment process, Filipinos are seeing another generation of prosecutors trying to make a case, this time against Chief Justice Renato Corona. But so far, there still is no sign that there are any Joker Arroyos and Simeon Marcelos in the present crop of prosecutors.

A dearth of talent?

Who won Day 1 of Corona impeachment trial?

Illustration by Vincent Go
THE jury is still out on who did a better job at making a good first impression with their preliminary statements at the opening of the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona. Was it the prosecution headed by Iloilo congressman Niel Tupas or the Defense represented by veteran legal luminaries Justice Serafin Cuevas and law school dean Eduardo delos Angeles?

Who won Day 1 of Corona impeachment trial?