A MUNTINLUPA court has denied former senator Leila de Lima’s petition for bail on her remaining drug case.
Boni Tacardon said “Sad to inform you that the Court denied [former] Sen. Leila’s Bail application.”
De Lima’s legal team said they will release a statement on the matter.
With this denial from the Muntinlupa court, de Lima will remain in detention during the trial of her last drug case.
In this specific case, De Lima faces the same conspiracy to commit drug trading charge along with six others.
This is the only remaining drug case De Lima is facing. She has been acquitted in the first two cases.
The former lawmaker won her first case when she challenged the sufficiency of prosecution evidence against her.
She won her second case on the ground of reasonable doubt—this was after the star prosecution witness recanted his testimony against her and admitted he was pressured to make false allegations.
